Commercial irrigation installation, built to be managed.
Most commercial irrigation is installed by whoever won the landscape tender, commissioned once, and never thought about again. It works on day one. It's wasting water by year three.
Every system we install, we can also manage. That changes how we build it.
A new system — or the one that needs work.
Built right, once.
For new builds and capital projects. Designed by a Certified Irrigation Designer, installed by our own crews, commissioned with monitoring in place from day one.
- Hydraulic design — pressure, flow, pipe sizing, zoning
- Flow sensing and controller specified from the outset
- As-built documentation you can actually use later
- Warranty backed by the team that will maintain it
Systems that work, but waste.
Most commercial retrofits pay for themselves out of the water bill — and we show you the arithmetic before you commit.
- Controller upgrade — fixed clock to ET-based scheduling
- Drip conversion on beds where spray is wasting water
- Pressure regulation and head replacement for uniformity
- Flow sensor retrofit to bring the site under monitoring
- Zone re-splitting where one schedule serves four microclimates
Commercial irrigation system retrofits — three categories of capital project.
From full new-construction design-build to targeted zone-level retrofit conversions. Every project starts with the same first question: what is the documented ROI?
Full design-build for new commercial properties.
Smart from day one. We work with property developers, landscape architects, and general contractors on commercial sites pre-construction — engineering the irrigation system for documented efficiency before a single line goes in the ground.
- System design and zoning
- Hardware specification
- Pre-construction coordination
- Installation and commissioning
- As-built documentation
Convert legacy systems to smart, efficient, documented operation.
The biggest category we run. We audit existing systems, identify the highest-ROI upgrades, install centralized control, retrofit nozzles to efficient distribution, add flow metering, and document everything for capital approval.
- Existing system audit and inventory
- Controller upgrade (centralized + remote)
- Nozzle retrofit (spray → rotary → drip)
- Pressure regulation and flow metering
- ROI documentation per zone
Drip conversion for the highest-loss zones.
When the existing system is largely sound but specific zones are losing water to wind, overspray, and evaporation. We isolate the worst zones, convert them to sub-surface drip, and document the savings against the original baseline.
- Zone-level efficiency audit
- Conversion design (spray → drip)
- Pressure regulation + filtration per zone
- Air-relief valves and infrastructure
- 1-season ROI documentation
Commercial sprinkler system installation for new builds.
A commercial sprinkler system installed on a new build is the one chance to get the hydraulics, the zoning and the measurement right before anything is paved over. SMART works design-build with the landscape architect, the general contractor and the owner's representative: mainline and laterals sized for the available pressure, zones laid out by plant type and exposure, a controller specified for how the site will actually be managed, and a flow sensor installed at commissioning so the system is measurable from day one. Hand-over includes as-built drawings, the commissioning flow baseline and a zone schedule the maintenance crew can work from.
One accountable team from drawing to commissioning.
Certified irrigation design, installation by our own crews, and commissioning documented against the design.
Flow sensor and controller specified for management.
Every new system we install can be monitored and managed; whether you add that service is your call, but the hardware is ready.
As-builts, zone schedule, baseline.
What the property manager receives at the end: drawings that match the ground, a flow baseline and a maintenance schedule.
Already have a system? See commercial irrigation maintenance and repair.
What a commercial irrigation system costs.
Every estimate we issue is built from the site, not a rate card, because the cost of a commercial irrigation system is driven by irrigated area, water source and pressure, zone count, head type, controller capability and how much of the site needs trenching versus reuse of existing pipe. A retrofit that keeps sound mainline and replaces heads, valves and the controller costs a fraction of a full replacement; a zone-level drip conversion costs less again and usually pays back fastest on the zones that were wasting the most. We quote in writing, by category, with the water savings we expect and how we will measure them.
For the factors in detail, read our guide to the cost of installing a commercial irrigation system, then use the form below to request an estimate for your property.
