Besides scoping the team on the trails, you can find them kicking back at Equinox Brewing, one of the team's co-sponsor, or lending their hands to trail rehabilitation projects in the area. Additionally, you will find them cleaning house at a number of races throughout the western US.  With our ties to Northern Colorado Grassroots, you can expect to see a lot more ecology, bikes, & beer from Hines. 

Engineered Scope of Work

Pump/Mechanical System Design

Site Sustainable Irrigation System Design

The irrigation system will be designed with an integrated micro-dosing filtration unit utilizing a 100% organic treatment regimine.  Combined with a local weather station which will monitor & automatically adjust daily watering schedules, we anticipate significant water savings!

A New Dilemma

Irrigation & Green Industry raises the question "Who has the right to "gray" or reclaimed water?" This is one of the hotly debated topics within the upcoming overhaul of state water laws in Florida, the country's biggest user of graywater. The new Florida law would cede control of graywater to the utilities that produced it - public or private. While environmentalists fear that this would put graywater up for sale to the highest bidder, conservationists recognize that economic forces provide the most objective & immediate means of allocating scare resources effectively and in accordance with the greatest need. This may become a discussion that soon spreads across the nation as water resource management proves imperative to sustainable infrastructure practices. 

For the past ten years, Hines has been honored to participate heavily in various new design & renovation projects for Arizona State University at their historic Tempe, Arizona campus.  We have worked directly with the University for specific projects as well as partnering with local Architects & design teams.

Consistent with Hines’ engineering expertise, these projects include water harvesting & reuse, feasibility studies, water feature mechanical & pumping station design, central control system design, & irrigation system design to a wide range of different landscape applications from sport fields to urban streetscape.

Highlighted projects include: W.P. Carey School of Business, Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Building, Terrance Road Pedestrian Mall, Kajikawa Football Fields, Weatherup Basketball & Athletic Center, ASU Indoor Practice Facility, SRC Intramural Sports Fields, ASU West Campus SRC Fields, McAllister Streetscape.

CSU - Fort Collins

Raw Water Distribution System Expansion

As a part of this project, Hines Irrigation engineering staff worked closely with CSU personnel to extend the CSU raw water distribution system making a new connection to the Old Fort Collins High School.  This pipeline extension was over 1-mile in length & involved detailed coordination through existing campus property, under the BNSF railway & a CDOT highway.  Additionally our office provided irrigation design services to CSU’s award winning Annual Flower Trial Garden & a complete renovation of the Old Fort Collins High School which has been restored & converted to the CSU Center of the Arts.

Hughes Stadium & Moby Practice Field         

Hines Engineers were retained to aid in the renovation of the existing irrigation systems at Hughes Stadium & the outdoor Moby Practice fields.  Due to a unique expertise in both artificial and natural sports turf & the required irrigation system support, Hines implemented a system to both cool & clean the artificial fields with separate systems to maintain natural turf grass areas.

New Academic Village

New Academic Village (NAV) at CSU provides housing for 420 engineering students and 240 honors students. Students and staff were involved during the design process to incorporate site sustainable building techniques.  As part of the LEED process, Smart ET controllers with rain sensors and the use of the School’s on-site central control system and weather station were utilized.  An experimental sustainability project is underway at the NAV with the irrigation system playing a vital role.  Grey water is planned for use through the drip irrigation system for research of the affects on the system and plant material.  This is a pilot program at CSU and Hines is proud to be a part of it!

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™  is credit-based, allowing projects to earn points for environmentally friendly construction of a building and its site. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable sites, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.

Great engineering & the use of efficient water use equipment can increase the number of points awarded to a project trying to obtain LEED certification. The areas in which efficient irrigation engineering & design can contribute include:

Water Efficiency Credit 1.1: Reduce Irrigation need by 50% – (2 points)
Water Efficiency Credit 1.2: Non Potable Water Use or No Irrigation – (2 points)
Materials and Resources Credit 4.1 and 4.2: Recycled Content – (1 point)
Innovation in Design Credit 1: Innovation in Design – (5 points)
Innovation in Design Credit 2: LEED Accredited Professional – (1 point)
Regional Points Credit 1 – (4 points)
Sustainable Sites Credit 5.1: Site Development: Protect or Restore Habitat – (1 point)
Sustainable Sites Credit 6.1: Stormwater Design: Quantity Control – (1 point)
Sustainable Sites Credit 7.2: Heat Island Effect – (1 point)
Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1: Optimize Energy Performance – (1-19 points)

Hines has worked towards meeting the LEED requirements for water savings and site sustainability on several projects and, in many cases, exceeded those requirements. Hines’ provided additional water conservation credits to site sustainable LEED Gold candidate, Chandler City Hall, by utilizing a site captured, alternative water source, implementing a weather based control system and highly efficient system design. The LEED Gold certified Medical Center of the Rockies is another prime example - implementing technologically advanced irrigation control systems and sprinkler system equipment.

According to Sustainable Cities Collective, the NRDC encourages cities and states to develop policy options and incentives to encourage more rainwater harvesting. These include:

- Adopt storm water pollution control standards that require on-site volume retention.

- Adopt standards that require or promote rainwater harvesting and/or water efficiency.

- Review building, health and plumbing codes for barriers to reusing rainwater.

- Provide incentives for decreasing storm water runoff and promoting water conservation.

- Require use of rainwater harvesting on all public properties.

By doing so, residents of these communities would obtain inexpensive onsite water supplies for non-potable uses, such as yard watering and toilet flushing; reduce runoff pollution; and would lower energy costs associated with treating and delivering drinkable-quality water. 

Hines has recently designed a variety of water harvesting systems including one for the W.L. Gore Phoenix Campus. Contact Hines for your next rainwater harvesting project!

Water Feature Mechanical Engineering

Unique to this project is the 350 GPM flow rate to the interactive water play feature and 150 GPM to the Boulder water feature. All water from each feature is recycled making water quality a key element of the system design. In addition, Hines has implemented a treatment system that will meet public swimming pool health code standards.

Site Sustainable Irrigation Design

Water Feature Mechanical Engineering

The site renovation includes a unique ‘greenwall’ component, a vertical plant bed, requiring a specialized construction detail for the installation of irrigation equipment within the wall and soil media. The project highlights two water features, each requiring its own mechanical system and one water feature containing two main visual basin components. Savings were seen in this project by using a singular small mechanical system as opposed to one large mechanical system to serve both features.