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Commercial-grade contemporary faucet designs for commercial restrooms are fashionable and durable. They also offer innovations in design and technology.
For example, set flow rates remotely with a fully programmable, commercial-grade touchless fixture. These contemporary faucets conserve water, calculate usage, and even track maintenance schedules.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 50% of a commercial building's water usage comes from restroom fixtures and laundry services. For this reason, the agency recommends contemporary faucet designs (like WaterSense products) that reduce water waste.
The following are three leading types of commercial-grade restroom fixtures that are contemporary and innovative. Before deciding which type is best for your facility's restrooms, let's take a moment to understand why commercial-grade applications are necessary for commercial buildings.
Key Takeaways:
- High-traffic buildings need durable fixtures that can withstand the wear and tear of heavy use.
- Innovations in smart faucet technologies drive growth in contemporary faucet designs.
- The modern commercial-grade faucet designs architects and designers opt for include manual, metering, and touchless models.
- Metering faucets allow you to program flow rates and temperature controls remotely.
- Touchless faucets provide the benefits of metering faucets with the bonus of mitigating risks from contact with germy surfaces.
Global Contemporary (Smart) Faucet Market Size for 2022
Commercial-grade faucets make up more than half of faucet applications globally. North America maintained the largest revenue share in 2022, at 7.4%. Much of this growth is from building managers, owners, and operators, along with architects and designers, looking to install smart faucets.
New sensor technology advancements and innovations in Internet of Things (IoT) products also drive growth in this sector. These fixtures enable users to program them to:
- Monitor usage
- Set temperature controls
- Estimate utility costs
- Adjust flow rates
- Receive maintenance notifications
- Detect leaks
3 Leading Contemporary Commercial-Grade Faucet Designs
Manufacturers design contemporary commercial restroom sink faucets with three things in mind: efficiency, conservation, and durability. As these manufacturers introduce innovations in design and functionality, these three elements become more noticeable.
In a moment, you can read a few case studies of hotels around San Antonio, Texas, which reduced water usage by implementing contemporary faucet designs in their commercial restrooms. First, let's review a few stylish and innovative models to consider for your next commercial faucet upgrades.
1. Stylish and Durable Manual Faucets
Innovations in design don't always mean incorporating technology at the point of end-use. Sometimes these advancements are in manufacturing, durability, and water-saving features.
Chicago Faucets offers several contemporary manual faucets in many styles and features, including single and dual-operation models. Our interchangeable parts make upgrading, servicing, and maintaining your faucets easier than ever!
Design Features
- Easy to use: These fixtures offer dual and single-handle operations that allow users to adjust water temperatures as desired.
- Versatile design: Get a faucet with interchangeable parts that enable you to adapt and retrofit current fixtures to meet new requirements.
- Saves water: Fit these faucets with water-saving aerators that are vandal-resistant and will reduce usage to 2.2 GPM every time someone uses the faucet.
- Additional features: Anti-scald features prevent users from burning themselves using the hot water alone. All fixtures are fully serviceable at Chicago Faucets.
2. Metering Faucets for Flow Rate Control
If you are looking for reliable water savings in your facility, consider upgrading from manual faucets to metering commercial faucet designs. The one-touch operation models feature various cycle times and even offer adjustable options, like flow rates and temperature controls, to name a few.
Chicago Faucets has several metering faucets to choose from, including (but not limited to) our 333 Series, 807 Series, and several 3500+ Series models. These fixtures come with features that make them well worth the modest investment.
Design Features
- Easy to use: This faucet offers a reliable, one-touch operation to improve hygiene and reduce the spread of germs.
- Versatile design: Choose from fixed or adjustable run times to give you the perfect balance of water savings and user satisfaction.
- Saves water: Reduce water usage to less than 2.2 GPM with every use, delivering a maximum of 0.25 gallons per cycle.
- Additional features: These faucets boast durable construction with faucet bodies made of cast brass, built for high-abuse and heavy-use environments.
3. Fully Programmable Touchless Faucets
If you are looking for a modern faucet design that delivers dependable hands-free convenience, consider a fully programmable touchless commercial faucet. Experts recommend the E-Tronic® 80 by Chicago Faucets in our new matte black finish for a new, contemporary design option.
This model looks great and eliminates clutter below the deck to enrich the overall look and design of the space, thanks to the faucet's above-deck electronics. Install an
E-Tronic® 80 with an internal mixer or allow users to adjust water temperatures with a user-adjustable mixer.
Design Features
- Easy to adjust: This Optional Commander™ handheld model delivers next-level controls right from the palm of your hand.
- Versatile design: This model is available with a 4˝ or 8˝ cover plate to fit any application.
- Saves water: Get an adjustable run time option from 0.35 to 1.5 GPM with vandal resistant outlet design.
- Additional features: The electronic elements of this model are above-deck to enable quicker installation and easier upkeep and maintenance.
Case Studies of Contemporary Commercial Restroom Faucet Upgrades
Commercial and institutional (C&I) facility managers and building owners throughout the country are doing their part to conserve water use. They are doing this by retrofitting or replacing outdated and inefficient plumbing products.
A few examples of this are three case studies of hotels throughout San Antonio, Texas, including:
- The Holiday Inn: Located at the San Antonio International Airport, this facility saves an average of 7 million gallons of water a year after retrofitting its fixtures with contemporary faucet designs manufactured to conserve water.
- The Westin Riverwalk Hotel: Facility managers upgraded plumbing fixtures and laundry room faucets, saving more than 2.2 million gallons of water annually.
- The Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel: A Four-star hotel implemented a water-efficiency strategy that included upgrades to more contemporary commercial faucets. These upgrades reduced the hotel's water usage by nearly half (49%) between 2004 and 2011.
Contemporary Commercial Faucet Designs from Chicago Faucets
At Chicago Faucets, we have the most modern faucet designs on the market. With over 120 years of experience in designing innovations in building technology, our faucets are not only durable, but they deliver the latest in faucet manufacturing advancements!
Ready for a contemporary upgrade to your outdated commercial faucets? Contact your Chicago Faucets Sales Representative for more information.
