Press Release: Lescure Engineers and The DesignSmart Group to receive 2009 Best Practices Award

Press Release: Lescure Engineers and The DesignSmart Group to receive 2009 Best Practices Award

ACEC and the Business Environmental Alliance recognize their Sonoma Wine Company project to create a more sustainable winery by reducing resource consumption.

Santa Rosa, CA, February 2009: Lescure Engineers, Inc. and The DesignSmart Group will be presented with a 2009 Business Environmental Alliance Best Practices Award at a breakfast event on Friday, February 27, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in Rohnert Park.

Sonoma Wine Company is working with Lescure Engineers and The DesignSmart Group to achieve water and energy efficiency improvements at its Graton winery. By reducing water use from 4.5 gallons per case of wine to 1.27 per case, Lescure Engineers, Inc. and the Design Smart Group demonstrated a 72% reduction in water use through operational changes in the winery processes.

Additionally they were successful in demonstrating that flows to the process wastewater system could be reduced 45%, while at the same time doubling the case capacity of the facility.

Lescure Engineers, Inc. and The Design Smart Group, have provided follow-up consultation for program implementation to Ed Silva, General Manager, Jim Neeley, Facilities Manager and Natasha Granoff, Business Development Director. Sonoma Wine Company CEO Dennis Carroll, who spoke recently at the North Bay Business Journal's "Going Green" Conference and the Green Wine Summit, has reported great satisfaction with the current program.