The University of California, Davis, recently built what is known as a self-sufficient model of a winery for their College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Department. SCAFCO water tanks were provided at two of the Robert Mondavi Institute buildings. These are the Teaching and Research Winery and the Jess. S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building.
The Teaching and Research Winery consists of a 12,500-square-foot winery along with a large experimental fermentation area which is used for research and courses for professors. SCAFCO supplied this winery with four model 2105 water tanks with an approximate total storage capacity of 180,000 gallons (681,375 liters) of water.
SCAFCO water tanks were also supplied at the Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building. According to the UC Davis website, this building “contains the technology needed to maximize the environmental capabilities of the adjacent winery, brewery, and food-processing complex.” With the use of solar panels for energy, windows and skylights for natural lighting inside the building, rain water collection and water cleaning to reuse 90 percent of the water, this building is incredibly efficient and self-sustaining in water and energy requirements. “This makes the winery self-sustaining in energy and water and fully solar at peak load with a zero carbon footprint.”