Instant bill and carbon cuts
Catch silent urinal leaks, continuously running cisterns, and hot water recirculation waste instantly. Cut Scope 1 and 2 utility emissions from week one.
Immediate operational utility savings
Funded by 
Turn Your Building into an Intelligent, Zero-Waste Property.
An Ofwat WEL 1 trial for 30 UK commercial buildings: smart sub-metering, wire-free occupancy sensing, and insurer-backed validation, installed at no cost for qualifying estates.
- £10,000+
- Free tech and plumbed assets
- 10%–30%
- Utility waste reduction
- Zero
- Tenant and work disruption
Backed by leading delivery, insurance, academic, and water-sector partners
Why estates teams register early
Commercial buildings lose 10–30% of water to undetected leaks, failing cisterns, and out-of-hours baseload. Project Dash is the UK's first cross-vector telemetry trial with insurer-backed water management, and the cohort closes at 30 sites.
Aviva insurer validation
Co-design the UK property safety standard. Receive an Aviva-backed Water Management Plan (WMP) to mitigate catastrophic Escape of Water (EoW) risks.
Pathway to insurance risk recognition
Keep equipment free forever
All physical sub-meters and automated isolation shut-off valves remain the permanent capital property of your building at zero charge.
Permanent asset and valving upgrade
Continuous improvement loop
Occupancy and flow correlated in real time, from IoT signal to FM fix to insurer-validated outcome, then back to sharper detection.
Register your buildingIoT
Data Sources
Quensus sub-metering + Direk wire-free spatial occupancy loggers.
AI
Cross Vector
Correlates water consumption against live room presence to flag hidden flow & dead legs.
Fix
FM Response
Auto valve shut-off & prioritised fix lists seamlessly routed into Wates FM workflows.
Value
Outcomes
Permanent cost reduction, Aviva insurance validation, and zero disruption to daily tenants.
One system from signal to response
Room-level occupancy mapped against sub-metered flow isolates hidden leaks, flags out-of-hours baseload, and surfaces stagnation risks before they become claims.
Signal layer
Direk
Occupancy sensing
Wire-free room signals show whether water use matches real occupancy patterns.
Quensus
Smart sub-metering
High-frequency flow data surfaces abnormal baseload and hidden loss routes early.
Cross-vector AI
Detection engine
Combined occupancy and flow logic filters noise and elevates credible anomaly events before they become claims.
Response layer
Wates
FM delivery
Out-of-hours install, maintenance, and escalation pathways keep operations uninterrupted.
Aviva
Insurance-backed plans
Water Management Plans convert alerts into insurer-aligned actions and audit-ready records.
Built for occupied buildings
Installation, sensing, and compliance designed to protect uptime and tenant comfort, not interrupt it.
Installation by your preferred plumber or Wates
Wates teams can install outside core occupancy windows to minimise tenant-facing disruption.
Under 60-minute zone isolation
Typical isolation windows stay below 60 minutes per zone during controlled intervention.
GDPR-safe occupancy detection
Zero-camera, zero-audio spatial sensing with 100% GDPR-compliant data handling controls.
Stronger Legionella safety oversight
Abnormal system-behaviour visibility strengthens Legionella routines and escalation response.
Behaviour change
Tenant engagement without the overhead
Visible, low-friction nudges in occupied spaces help estates teams shift tenant behaviour without adding FM workload.
- Lobby displays that keep water efficiency visible
- Washroom nudges at the point of use
- Quarterly touchpoints, under 30 minutes of estates time
9%
UK commercial water demand reduction benchmark your building contributes toward.
Delivered by
Programme leadership
From registration to live monitoring
One joined-up path from first contact to ongoing alerts and insurer-ready reporting. Shortlisted buildings work with Wates installation teams, Aviva-backed risk planning, and the wider Project Dash consortium.
- 3 minutes
Register your building
Submit core site details and water-risk priorities. We confirm quickly whether the asset fits trial criteria.
- 30 minutes
Feasibility survey
Technical check of metering points and occupancy profile, plus a desktop and site review of washrooms, tea points, and DHW feeds.
- 1 day
Installation
Wates plumbers install sub-meters and sensors. Each zone isolated under 60 minutes, outside core occupancy windows.
- Ongoing
Live monitoring
Leak alerts funnel into FM fix lists. At trial close, receive audited sustainability reports, insurance badges, and retain all hardware.
30 places nationally
Is your building a fit?
Offices, education, care, public sector, and mixed-use commercial sites with active estates management.
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Building profile
A UK commercial site (offices, education or care) with active facilities or estates management in place.
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Stakeholder commitment
A responsible decision-maker is willing to register and support trial participation.
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Operational access
The site can provide coordinated access for professional installation activity.
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Risk priority
Your team is actively looking to reduce hidden leaks, water waste, and Escape of Water exposure.
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Monitoring value
You want practical monitoring insights and reporting to support operations, compliance, and ESG evidence.
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Limited cohort
Only 30 qualifying UK commercial buildings will be selected nationally.
Questions estates teams ask
Disruption, privacy, Legionella, and what happens after the trial.
No building shutdown is required. Installations are scheduled out-of-hours or over weekends. Local water isolation is strictly controlled to less than 60 minutes per washroom. No main external stopcocks are closed.
All work is executed by accredited, pre-vetted Wates plumbers under strict RAMS. Continuous flow telemetry flags stagnant water and dead legs, strengthening your mandatory Legionella compliance profiles.
100% compliant. Direk sensors use wire-free infrared spatial heat footprints. There are no cameras, no microphones, and no personal data collection. All occupancy telemetry is completely anonymised at the zone level.
You keep all installed sub-meters and isolation valves free of charge as permanent building assets. You may choose an optional low-cost cloud analytics subscription, or simply retain the plumbed manual shut-offs. Zero lock-in.
It translates live building data into clear controls: leak response paths, isolation procedures, monitoring thresholds, and maintenance priorities. That structure helps reduce Escape of Water exposure and strengthens insurer and governance conversations.