Nestle Water Bottling Facilities

Project Summary

Nestle Waters North America
Various Locations Throughout the United States

Project Type:
Water Bottling Facilities

Size:
250,000 to 400,000 Square Feet

Project Details

As an industry leader for nearly two decades, Nestle Waters North America (NWNA) bottles and distributes 15 of the country's best-known bottled water brands. To reduce their environmental footprint, NWNA has made a commitment to sustainable building practices for both the design and construction of all of its new water bottling facilities. In 1996, the Nestle Environmental Management System (NEMS) was created, and since then, it has been implemented throughout the Company, leading to improvement of NWNA's environmental performance, including water resource management.

AEC has commissioned six NWNA facilities. Commissioning services provided have included: documentation of owner’s design intent; construction document review; submittal review; development and implementation of Commissioning Plans, pre-functional checklists, and functional performance tests; identification and resolution of deficiencies; short-term diagnostic monitoring; O&M staff training; preparation of a final commissioning report; and post-occupancy/warranty period review. LEED Certification, at the Silver rating level, has been achieved for all six Nestle water bottling facilities.

Project Highlights

All Nestle projects have received the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification.

To reduce unnecessary conditioning of outside air in these large buildings, demand control ventilation is used for most of the spaces based on the levels of carbon monoxide (CO) in the warehouse and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the rest of the spaces.

For several of these projects, energy modeling was conducted by Architectural Energy Corporation to optimize their energy performance. Results indicated that approximately 20% less energy than a minimally-compliant ASHRAE 90.1 building will be used.

Recent projects have included a Measurement and Verification Program which will be designed and implemented by AEC to document actual savings, earning another LEED credit.

AEC identifies and resolves hundreds of design, installation, and operation issues during the design, construction and warranty phases of the projects.

All projects were developed under a design/build approach making the optimal timing of introducing improvements particularly challenging.