Building / construction contact Rain harvesting

[JABB]

Chaps.
I'm on a steep learning curve thrown in at the deep end with system design and sales for a rain harvesting company. Basically I wish to contact the right people first time.
With large residential and commercial construction design, who would be responsible for suggesting and designing in to a project, rain harvesting systems?
Is it at architectural stage, or head of construction at contractor level?
Any insight would be most appreciated!

[Equus]

JABB said:

With large residential and commercial construction design, who would be responsible for suggesting and designing in to a project, rain harvesting systems?
Is it at architectural stage, or head of construction at contractor level?
Any insight would be most appreciated!

You're onto a bit of a loser with large developers, to be perfectly honest: they don't specify gadgets like rainwater harvesting unless there is something in it for them.

It used to score points under things like Code for Sustainable Homes, but now that's been killed off... it doesn't even help with drainage design, because as I understand it, when you're doing the calculations for a SuDs drainage system, you have to assume thant any rainwater harvesting system is already full, and we can meet the water consumption targets under Building Regulations quite easily without it.

Having said all which, in a typical residential developer (structures do vary a bit), the design requirement for a rainwater harvesting system will be established by their Design & Technical team (at Regional, not Head Office level if they are structured to have regional teams), which will be headed up by a Regional Design & Technical Manager/Director... who will be far too busy to talk to you.

Once the design requirement has been established on a particular project, the actual procurement will be made by their Commercial team (sometimes at Regional level, sometimes at Group level, depending on whether they see sufficient need to arrange a group procurement deal. The Commercial team will be headed up by a Group/Regional Commercial Director/Manager, who runs a team of Quantity Surveyors and Buyers, who will all be too busy to talk to you.

Basic principle for these people (I used to be one of them - former Design & Tech Director for a large housebuilder) is don't call us, we'll call you. You will just piss them off by cold calling them or spamming them with emails: if they need your product, one of their buyers or QS's will contact you.

Edited by Equus on Saturday 17th February 10:37