About Integrated Water Process
Water Engineering and Management for Controlled Environment Agriculture
Integrated Water Process helps commercial growers plan, design, build, commission, and maintain the water systems behind successful controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facilities. Our approach brings irrigation, water quality, treatment, storage, pumping, controls, and water reuse together under a single Total Water Management philosophy.
Our goal is straightforward: simplify complex water systems so growers can operate with greater precision, efficiency, reliability, and confidence.
Our Mission
Our mission is to simplify water engineering and management through a Total Water Management philosophy that prioritizes precision, efficiency, reliability, and responsible use of water.
Water is not simply a utility within a greenhouse or indoor growing facility. It is a critical production process. The quality of its design directly affects irrigation performance, plant consistency, labor requirements, resource efficiency, and the ability to scale.
The Water Problems We Solve
Water infrastructure is often divided among architects, engineers, equipment suppliers, irrigation contractors, and specialty vendors. Without someone responsible for the complete water process, important interfaces can be overlooked.
We routinely evaluate facilities where individual components work as intended, but the overall system does not perform as a coordinated process.
Common problems include:
- Insufficient water room space or poorly planned equipment access.
- Inadequate floor drainage and water containment.
- Irrigation systems that cannot consistently maintain required flow, pressure, or application targets.
- Water quality issues that were not identified early in project development.
- Improperly sized pumps, tanks, filtration, treatment, or distribution infrastructure.
- Limited consideration for reclamation, reuse, and future expansion.
- Multiple equipment suppliers working independently without clear system integration.
These issues can lead to operational workarounds, unnecessary maintenance, inconsistent irrigation, wasted water, and expensive modifications after construction.
Total Water Management
Total Water Management means treating the entire water system as one connected process. Instead of optimizing individual components in isolation, Integrated Water Process considers the complete path of water through the facility, from source water through treatment, storage, irrigation, drainage, reclamation, and reuse.
This approach provides owners with a single point of accountability while reducing gaps between design disciplines, contractors, equipment manufacturers, and operators.
Water Engineering Services
Engineering From Planning Through Operation
Good water system performance begins before equipment is selected. We work with owners, growers, architects, contractors, engineers, and equipment manufacturers to define operating requirements before those requirements become construction decisions.
Our work can continue through design, equipment integration, installation, startup, testing, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance. That continuity allows design intent to carry through to the operating facility.
Leadership and Experience
Integrated Water Process is led by Brad Hull, PE, a Professional Engineer with extensive experience in water engineering, irrigation, system design, construction, commissioning, and project management for commercial horticulture and controlled environment agriculture.
The company was built around a practical engineering principle: define the problem before selecting the solution. We combine engineering analysis with field experience to develop systems that can be constructed, operated, serviced, and expanded in the real world.
Why Precision Water Management Matters
Commercial horticulture depends on repeatability. Flow, pressure, water quality, nutrient delivery, dissolved oxygen, drainage, and irrigation timing all influence the growing environment.
Precision water management establishes measurable operating targets and provides the infrastructure required to maintain them. The result is a water system that supports consistent production while reducing unnecessary water use, operational complexity, and avoidable risk.
Proven in Commercial Facilities
Our Total Water Management approach has been applied to commercial cultivation, greenhouse, irrigation, water treatment, and facility water projects. These engagements range from individual water quality investigations to complete facility water systems.
- National cultivation expansion: See how Integrated Water Process supported water system improvements for an expanding commercial cultivation operation.
- Commercial water quality investigation: See how water testing and analysis helped a commercial property manager identify and address a tenant water concern.
View Integrated Water Process case studies
How We Work
Define the Problem
We begin by understanding the facility, operating requirements, water quality, production objectives, constraints, and existing infrastructure. Equipment selection comes after the problem and performance requirements are understood.
Engineer the Complete Process
We evaluate how water moves through the entire facility rather than treating pumps, tanks, treatment equipment, irrigation, controls, and drainage as isolated systems.
Coordinate the Details
We work across disciplines and suppliers to identify interfaces early, document requirements, and reduce ambiguity during construction and commissioning.
Verify Performance
Testing and commissioning confirm that the installed system performs as intended and provide operators with a clear baseline for future operation and maintenance.
Technology Through Trusted Collaboration
No single manufacturer provides every component required for a complete commercial water system. Integrated Water Process works with established equipment manufacturers, technology providers, contractors, and specialty consultants to integrate the right technologies for each application.
Our industry relationships include organizations such as Priva, Dosatron, and Key Solutions Group. These relationships allow us to combine specialized technologies while maintaining an independent, system-level engineering perspective.
What We Believe
Water is a process. Irrigation, treatment, storage, pumping, controls, drainage, and reclamation must work together.
Simple is sophisticated. A successful system should provide the required performance without unnecessary complexity.
High-value crops require high-quality water. Water quality and irrigation performance should be measured, understood, and managed.
Reduce. Reuse. Recirculate. Responsible water management begins by understanding where water goes and designing practical ways to use it more efficiently.
Service comes first. A system is only successful if it continues to support the people responsible for operating it.
Build a Better Water Process
Whether you are planning a new facility, improving an existing water system, investigating a water quality problem, or preparing for expansion, Integrated Water Process can help define the requirements and develop a practical path forward.
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