What we do
Our services transform complex water and energy data into clear operational insight, helping organisations improve performance, reduce waste and make better decisions.
Water Intelligence provides a clear understanding of how water is used across your buildings. By transforming monitoring data into meaningful operational insight, we help organisations identify abnormal consumption, reduce waste and make informed decisions that improve efficiency.
What You'll Gain:
• Identify unusual water consumption
• Detect leaks and reduce waste
• Improve operational decision-making
Energy Intelligence helps organisations understand how energy is consumed across their buildings. By analysing performance data, we identify inefficiencies, uncover opportunities to reduce consumption and provide the insight needed to support informed operational decisions.
What You'll Gain:
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Identify energy inefficiencies
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Reduce operational costs
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Support sustainability goals
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Improve building performance through operational insight
Maintaining water quality is essential for safe, compliant and efficient building operation. SWAES helps organisations monitor water quality across open and closed water systems, providing the insight needed to reduce risk, support compliance and maintain reliable performance.
What You'll Gain:
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Monitor water quality across building systems
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Support compliance and risk management
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Identify potential issues before they escalate
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Maintain safe and reliable water systems
Clear reporting transforms complex operational data into meaningful information that supports confident decision-making. SWAES delivers tailored reports that highlight trends, identify opportunities and provide organisations with the insight needed to improve water and energy performance.
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Turn complex data into clear, actionable reports
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Identify trends and performance opportunities
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Support informed operational decision-making
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Track progress over time
What You'll Gain:
Monitoring services that grow with your objectives
SWAES monitoring services range from essential consumption visibility and automated leak alerts through to complete portfolio-wide water management. Each level builds on the previous service, adding greater analysis, engagement and support to convert water data into measurable savings.
Bronze — Monitoring Essentials
Bronze alerts.
High-frequency water monitoring with secure cloud transmission, dashboard visibility and automated leak and anomaly alerts. It replaces manual meter checking and gives building teams early warning when consumption appears abnormal.
Silver — Performance Monitoring
Silver explains.
Regular SWAES analysis explains building performance, benchmarks consumption and identifies leaks, persistent baseload and wider water-efficiency opportunities. Silver is the recommended minimum where an organisation has a genuine water-reduction objective.
Gold — Continuous Optimisation
Gold improves.
Proactive technical and strategic support turns monitoring insight into prioritised improvements, verified savings and ongoing water reduction.
Platinum — Strategic Water Management
Platinum manages strategically.
Portfolio-wide governance, reporting, benchmarking and improvement planning for organisations seeking coordinated water reduction across multiple buildings, regions or countries.
Monitoring alone does not reduce consumption. SWAES analysis and continued engagement help identify inefficient toilets, taps, urinals, showers, plant systems, operating patterns and other avoidable use, keeping water visible and turning data into action.Â
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Practical Water Efficiency Measures
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Once the data shows where water is being lost or overused, SWAES can recommend practical improvements suited to each site.
These may include Presto-style timed-flow and sensor-controlled fittings, low-flow outlets, improved WC and urinal controls, leak repairs, pressure adjustments, sub-metering and operational changes.
We help organisations understand which measures are worthwhile, support informed decisions and continue monitoring performance so the results can be demonstrated.
Our service levels are adapted to the number of buildings, monitoring objectives and level of technical support required. SWAES will recommend the most appropriate level following an initial discussion.
Better decisions begin with better understandingÂ
Speak to our team to discover how SWAES can help your organisation gain clearer insight into water and energy performance.
Practical Water Efficiency and Clearer Decisions
SWAES helps organisations understand how water is being used across their buildings and estates, then turn that understanding into practical improvement.
From bills and occasional meter readings to continuous monitoring, clear reporting and targeted solutions, we make water performance easier to see, manage and improve.
Water Monitoring
Most organisations only see water through their bills or occasional meter readings. That can make it difficult to distinguish normal demand from persistent flow, abnormal use, hidden leaks or inefficient equipment.
SWAES combines appropriate monitoring with expert review to build a clearer picture of what is happening across your buildings and sites. We help identify unusual patterns, establish priorities and give teams reliable information on which to act.
Practical Water Efficiency Measures
Monitoring is the beginning of the improvement journey. Once the evidence is clear, SWAES can recommend practical measures suited to each building, its users and its operating requirements.
Depending on the site, this may include:
- Timed-flow and sensor-controlled taps, showers and fittings
- Low-flow outlets and flow regulation
- WC and urinal flushing controls
- Pressure adjustment and flow optimisation
- Leak repairs and targeted investigation
- Sub-metering and more detailed monitoring
- Suitable products such as Presto-style water-saving fittings where appropriate
The objective is not to impose unnecessary change. It is to identify sensible, proportionate improvements that reduce avoidable consumption and, where relevant, hot-water energy use.
Reporting and Intelligence
Monitoring shows what is happening. Reporting explains the patterns. Intelligence helps identify where action will have the greatest value.
This is the SWAES MRIâ„¢ approach: Monitoring, Reporting and Intelligence.
We turn water data into clear performance information that helps organisations prioritise investigation, plan improvements and track whether changes are delivering the expected result.
Who We Help
SWAES supports schools and academy trusts, NHS and healthcare estates, commercial offices and other multi-site organisations that need a clearer understanding of water use and practical ways to improve it.
Evidence From Real Projects
- Heart Academies Trust — estate-wide visibility and discovery of hidden leak at Shackleton Primary School
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust — monitoring, investigation and water-performance improvement
- Microsoft — developing monitoring and reporting across a multi-site EMEA portfolio
- Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust — practical monitoring and reporting across education sites
A Clearer Way Forward
You do not need to have everything worked out before speaking to SWAES. We can start with what you already know, review the available information and identify the most useful next step.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is water monitoring?
Water monitoring provides a clearer view of how water is being used over time. It can reveal unusual patterns, persistent flow, possible leaks and opportunities to improve efficiency.
Can SWAES support organisations with multiple sites?
Yes. SWAES can help organisations bring together water information from multiple buildings or locations, making it easier to compare performance and identify priorities.
Can you help identify hidden leaks?
Monitoring can highlight persistent or abnormal usage that may indicate a leak or another problem requiring investigation. Our Heart Academies case study shows how this approach helped identify a hidden legacy leak at Shackleton Primary School.
What practical water-saving measures do you recommend?
Measures depend on the building and how it is used. Recommendations may include timed-flow or sensor-controlled fittings, low-flow outlets, WC and urinal controls, pressure adjustment, leak repairs and targeted sub-metering.
Do we need to replace all our existing equipment?
No. The right approach is usually targeted. SWAES can help identify where an intervention is worthwhile and where existing equipment can remain in use.
What happens first?
The first step is a conversation about your buildings, current information and priorities. We then establish what can be understood from the available data and recommend a proportionate next step.
Do you provide ongoing reporting?
Where appropriate, yes. Ongoing reporting helps keep water performance visible, track changes and support continuous improvement.