Services

LIS is one of Canada’s leading consulting irrigation design firms offering a wide array of comprehensive services including but not limited to:

  • Irrigation Design Development – Project start-up, detailed irrigation design, provide signed and stamped construction drawings complete with required details, irrigation runtime schedule, and technical specifications
  • Construction Drawings, Specifications, and Tender Documents – Prepare bid documents from Client or Municipal tender package front-end template complete with special conditions, schedule of quantities (unit price form, as required), and construction cost estimates.  Bid review, cost analysis, and recommendations
  • LEED Documents Preparation – LIS designs and prepares LEED Documents related to First and Second Water Efficiency Credits (WEc1.1 and WEc1.2)
  • Contract Administration and Project Management – LIS provides field review, process contractor’s claims and payment certificates, and represents the Client best interests in completing the project on time and on budget. We have managed all aspects of project development including but not limited to understanding and meeting timelines, cost estimates and meeting budgets, monitoring progress and ensuring compliance with drawings and specifications, creating reports and document records to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Irrigation Management Plan Services (IMP) – Stormwater Use – Irrigation Management Plan (IMP) also known as Master Irrigation Report (MIR) is a preliminary report prepared in support of the Staged Master Drainage Plan (SMDP) or Pond Report where stormwater from a community catchment is collected and used for irrigation purposes
  • Irrigation Master Planning – Potable and Non-Potable Sources
    – By master planning development project sites, the hydraulic requirements and central control infrastructure of the irrigation system network can be as efficient and effective as possible. With expert review, redundant irrigation water services and controllers can be eliminated, and the irrigation system components streamlined to reduce capital, operation, and maintenance costs regardless of project development phase
  • As-built Collection and Plan Development – As-built Irrigation System drawings as per City of Calgary Parks Development Guidelines and Standard Specifications for Landscape Construction. LIS utilizes submeter (10cm accuracy) GPS mapping grade equipment to collect all field data
  • Distribution Uniformity Analysis – Analysis can be provided both during the design phase as well as after installation using as-built data collected by LIS.  The results from the analysis and the as-built plan development can be seamlessly integrated into the irrigation site control software, runtime programming, and remote control operations
  • Irrigation System Catch Can Audit Services – LIS irrigation audit services conform to the Irrigation Association audit guidelines (2009) and ANSI/ASABE 626, Uniformity Test for Landscape Irrigation Systems standard. LIS is capable of undertaking the irrigation system assessment, calculating audit results, preparing audit reports, and detailing recommendations complete with cost estimates