Case Studies

Keeping School Renovations on Track

With limited access to gravity drainage, the plumbers turned to SFA for a pump solution that would enable installation of all the wet amenities needed.

Wharf bar wastewater drainage solution

Sanicom 1 and Sanicom 2 installed at Oasis Bar & Terrace, Canary Wharf

Helping preserve waterways with the Sanifos 280 GR

Dwellings surrounding the Lake Rotoiti area encountered issues with aging septic systems. The bio treatment systems which replaced them could only be located at the top end of the properties for serviceability creating a tricky problem, how to get the waste from the lower end of the properties after the old septic systems were decommissioned. 

Wastewater drainage for deployable shelters

Humanihut are creators and providers of foldable and rapidly deployable temporary accommodation for use in emergencies, mining and numerous other use cases. The structures are designed to provide all amenities for inhabitants, including bathroom and kitchen facilities. Each emergency response site is unique, requiring varying numbers of the Humanihut systems, but there is one thing that remains the same at all sites – the lack of existing drainage for plumbing amenities.

Whole of house high-lift solution

After a homeowner had become disillusioned with a constantly failing lifting station, which had been servicing his home on Auckland’s North Shore, he sought out a new, high-lift, whole of house solution

Tiny home made possible using the Sanifos 280 GR

Tiny homes and granny flats are becoming increasingly popular, and they offer a great solution to the nation’s housing crisis. In order to be compliant, granny flats and tiny homes are required to have plumbing amenities including kitchen and bathroom facilities, but this can be a challenge as they are often built lower than street level and adjacent homes. This is the issue that a client had recently with their tiny home build as the selected site was situated far away from the street and was below the street drainage. To enable the tiny home to have plumbing, a powerful pump was required.

Sanicom 2 solution for laundrette chain

Ozone Laundrette in Docklands (Melbourne) a large number of washing machines in constant operation; Ozone needed a way to carefully manage and release the wastewater from their commercial washing machines; the Sanicom 2 is critical in facilitating this.

Creating office kitchenettes with the Sanifast

In the heart of Auckland's CBD, at popular commercial high-rise 34 Shortland Street, three tenancies recently underwent new office fit-outs, which included brand new kitchenettes. In each of these instances, the kitchenettes were to be placed in locations where there was limited access to traditional gravity plumbing.

Sanihair facilitates hair salon

One industry that is increasingly in need of an alternate plumbing solution is hair and beauty industry. With the rise in commercial lease costs, many salon owners are instead turning to home salons to run their businesses.

Commercial Laundry, Geebung QLD

Gynaecology clinic

The Anglesea Gynaecology Clinic is a premium centre considered one of the best in New Zealand. The facility where the clinic was located had become too small for their demand, so the clinic needed to relocate and custom design the new space to meet their needs.

Shed to powder room conversion

Outdoor living is a big part of the summer; where coming together with family and friends for a barbecue and splash in the pool is one of life's simple pleasures

Office space to doctors clinic conversion

This new doctor’s clinic designed by Sol Atkinson of Atkinson Harwood Architecture, sits on the ground floor of a three-storey commercial building in Napier. Converting the office space into a doctor’s surgery was challenging from a plumbing perspective; while the doctors needed hand basins in each room, the existing plumbing structure did not reach most of these spaces, and cutting up the floor in order to install additional waste pipes would have affected the structural integrity of the building.

Heritage apartment renovations

Innovative plumbing solution creates a better space for living

7-ELEVEN Smoothie machine

Saniflo SFA (SFA Pumps) has been working with 7-Eleven nationally since 2013 to offer pumping solutions for their coffee and slurpy machines where conventional gravity drainage is not possible.

Boathouse conversion

The once humble boat shed is seeing a resurgence but not for its initial purpose. What was once a simple and practical storage shed is now receiving a major renovation, creating unique and enviable studio and guest accommodation.