Before building new apartments blocks or commercial units that are multiuse buildings, water submetering can be installed so that each individual unit can be billed for their water consumption, rather than the building management company being billed for the entire block. Water submetering companies can provide developers with sufficient information and data to allow the meters to be installed before the building is occupied.
The Developer Can Plan in Advance
In most circumstances, each individual residential or commercial unit renter or owner will prefer to pay an accurate water bill, rather than rely on a bill based upon square footage of the unit. When water submetering companies liaise direct with the developer, all the advance planning will include a meter for each unit.
This relieves the building management from consistent arguments about other residents wasting water and the remaining owners being billed for that waste. Without submetering, the building is billed once for its water usage and the management will share the bill, usually, as an unfair payment for the square footage occupied, not the water consumed.
Developers Incentives
Because owners will not be in dispute with other owners or occupiers, developers can offer the installation in place, on completion of signed contracts.
This allows water submetering companies and developers to work in collaboration so they can create the most cost-effective and design solutions for the installation of the water meters. This allows the developer to become flexible with their design layouts which will include all the metering solutions.
Developers can sell their property with the full knowledge that individual owners will deal with all the water usage within the building, leaving management to deal only with common areas. This reduces the overall water usage within the building because individual owners are receiving accurate bills and can be informed when a leak appears probable as the instant data will show an increase in the use of water over a short period.
