Capital irrigation projects, designed for efficiency.
Design-build for commercial properties under capital improvement plans. We audit existing systems, engineer with measured efficiency in mind, install certified hardware, and hand over documentation built for capital approval and audit defense.
Most commercial irrigation systems are running at half their potential.
When SMART was founded, we installed and walked away. Today, we audit existing systems and find the same three patterns at almost every property — each one a documented capital opportunity sitting in the landscape.
Over-pressurization.
Most legacy systems run 30–50% over recommended pressure.
At the head, that means water gets atomized into mist that drifts on the wind. The system uses more water and applies less of it to the actual landscape. Visible at audit, invisible on the bill.
Spray loss in beds.
Fan spray heads installed in narrow planting beds can lose over 50% of applied water to overspray, wind drift, and evaporation.
Walkways get watered. Parking lot edges get watered. The plants don't. This is the highest-ROI retrofit category we run — documented gains of 42–92% on zone-level drip conversions.
Traditional Control Systems.
Traditional Timers run static schedules, on/off, regardless of weather, ET Values, or rainfall.
That means watering after rain. Watering through a heatwave at the same rate as a cool morning. Watering broken zones because nobody noticed. Water Management closes the gap between what's applied and what's needed.
Each pattern is a capital project. Three categories of work follow.
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
Targeted drip retrofits on 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
