IRRIGATION LAYOUT DESIGN - HOW TO PREPARE FOR IT ?

Nowadays, not in US,EU,AU but in Asia, middle east countries & in Africa the automated smart irrigation system is being installed and liked by millions. This helps in reducing water wastage during manual irrigations and precision of radius to reach all parts who needs the irrigation. Landscape irrigation is important to sustain plant health without relying on mother nature alone. These regulated and well-maintained irrigation systems keep your communities and businesses green. When designing an irrigation system, there are a lot of options to choose from.

DESIGN TOOLS:

Designing irrigation layout design needs a highly efficient software and Design Engineer must have the Skills to operate the Design Tools, In industry most commonly used tools are:

Pro Contractor Studio™ - Irrigation & Landscape CAD Design. www.softwarerepublic.com

Land F/X www.landfx.com

Both have their Pros & Cons, but when it comes to basic criteria of delivering the design with right calculations, Both are equally good. And you can get Pro Contractor Studio™ - Irrigation & Landscape CAD Design in half or the Price of Land F/X.

We at athomdesigns are highly skilled in using both these softwares for Landscape & irrigation layout designing. Our Engineers have equal skills & expertise in AutoCAD as of LandFX.

IRRIGATION DESIGN ENGINEER:

Though many people things that a landscape designer is the one who do all the irrigation design too, but there are very few in industry who knows the both designing very well. Specialised in Irrigation design and auditing is a skill that can be earned with good educational courses on irrigation design and/or by learning &working with experienced irrigation designer.

We at Athom Designs have Irrigation design Engineers who have experience of designing the Irrigation system from last 20+ years when the days of manually calculated material take-off and Precipitation rates. Highly effective with thousands of irrigation design deliveries make us one of the best & obvious choice for many.

One must ensure that Engineer designing irrigation have good idea on GPM, Zoning, Laterals and loss calculations due to elevations in property.

MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS:

SCALING: scale of the design must be verified to ensure we the irrigation design is accurate. Many customers reaches us to get the existing their existing irrigation designs audited and corrected because of this small but highly impacting issue. We have seen multiple scenarios with inaccurate scale which lead to losses to customer and a complete re-design of the projects.

CORNERS: when designing the irrigation Design, one must ensure to have the complete reach towards the corners in property and HEADS must be placed accordingly. This small step ensures that irrigation coverage is RIGHT and as per RULES of the region.

HARDSCAPE: Keeping the water through away from hardscape is equally important as the CORNERS. Irrigation designer must ensure that water through is not making hardscape wet and making it un-usable during water window.

SLEEVES: Shortest Path with 90 degree movement - this must be the First Priority, but of it is not possible then ensure that principle will remain same and design must take references where as possible.

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Reeta Devi. : www.athomdesigns.com