Desert Group · Service Capability
Irrigation & Water Management Solutions
Intelligent irrigation design, BIM modelling, installation, maintenance and supply for residential, landscape, golf and sports projects across the UAE and the wider GCC. Every system built to make water go further.
ONE PARTNER, EVERY STAGE
One team across every stage of the system
Design, modelling, installation, maintenance and supply usually sit with different specialists. Bringing them together under one team means the intent behind the first calculation carries all the way through to the spare part. That continuity is what keeps a system efficient for the twenty years after handover.
Design
System choice, hydraulics, zoning and control philosophy resolved before a layout is drawn.
Irrigation BIM
Revit modelling, clash detection and quantities taken from the model itself.
Contracting
Installation, connection, pressure testing and documented commissioning.
Maintenance
Annual contracts and project scopes that hold a system at its design performance.
Supply
Regional supply of controls, emitters, valves, pumps, pipework and spares.
Appoint us for the full chain, or for a single stage
Most projects start with one stage and add the others as they move. Where a design is already in place, we review it against our own hydraulic model before we price the work.
Send us your projectIn this climate, efficiency is measured in water saved
Landscape irrigation is the largest single water consumer on most developments in this region. The decisions made in the first two weeks of design set how much water a site will use for the next twenty years, and how much of it can be saved.
WHY IRRIGATION ENGINEERING MATTERS HERE
In this climate, efficiency is measured in water saved
Landscape irrigation is the largest single water consumer on most developments in this region. The decisions made in the first two weeks of design set how much water a site will use for the next twenty years, and how much of it can be saved.
Irrigation disciplines, engineered intelligently
Residential gardens, landscape, sports turf and golf each ask something different of a system. What the water has to achieve, how evenly it must arrive, and how little of it can do the job. Desert Group has specialist divisions working across all of them, so every design draws on what those teams have learned keeping systems running.
Landscape irrigation
Shaped by the planting palette. Species in a mixed landscape can differ tenfold in what they need. Grouping them into honest hydrozones is what lets each one thrive on exactly the water it requires.
Sports turf irrigation
Measured on uniformity. Even water gives even surface hardness and even grass cover, which is what makes a pitch play consistently from the first minute to the last.
Golf irrigation
The largest and most instrumented systems we build. Hundreds of individually controlled heads and a pumping station sized to a narrow night window, with central control making agronomic decisions every evening.
Residential irrigation
Built for the person who lives with it. Simple, reliable control, quiet operation and water use that shows up on the bill, designed so the garden looks after itself for most of the year.
What we do at every stage
Design
Every system begins as a calculation rather than a layout. We match the system choice to the planting palette, the water source and the operating window. Then design the control philosophy that will run it.
- Concept and detailed design packages
- Hydraulic calculations and network modelling
- Layout, zoning and hydrozone planning
- Pump room design and pump selection
- System choice and equipment selection
- Control, automation and SCADA integration
Irrigation BIM
Quantities and clashes come out of the model, not out of a spreadsheet written beside it.
- Revit-based irrigation modelling
- 3D network modelling and pipe routing
- Equipment, valve and pump room families
- Clash detection and MEP coordination
- Quantity extraction and BOQ generation
- Shop drawings and as-built documentation
Contracting
Installation carried out by the people who sized the system, and commissioned against the design rather than against a checklist.
- Supply and installation of pipework and fittings
- Controllers, valves, sprinklers, rotors and driplines
- Filtration, fertigation and pumping stations
- Central control, BMS and SCADA integration
- Connection to storage tanks, TSE and potable supply
- Pressure testing, flushing, commissioning and reporting
Maintenance
Annual contracts and project scopes that keep a system at its design performance and its water use where it should be.
- Scheduled maintenance and seasonal adjustment
- Controller and sensor calibration
- Irrigation audits and water efficiency assessments
- Pump and pressure system checks
- Emitter, nozzle and filter servicing
- Leak detection and repair
Supply & Distribution
A regional source of irrigation supplies. Technical support to specify them correctly, and after-sales cover to keep them running.
- Irrigation control systems
- Sprinklers, rotors and nozzles
- Drip and micro-irrigation
- Valves, sensors and pressure regulators
- Pumps, filtration and pipework
- Technical support and after-sales service
Full brand and product schedule available on request.
WHERE THE WATER GOES
The environments we keep alive
Irrigation is the one system every landscape depends on and almost nobody sees. It runs under fairways, pitches, streetscapes and resort grounds, and the surface above only performs as well as the network below. Each environment asks something different of that network, and each one is an opportunity to use less water for a better result.
A stadium pitch is judged on uniformity. A master community is judged on what it costs to run. A championship course is judged on both, every night, inside a narrow watering window. Behind all of them sits the same chain of pumps, filters and emitters, sized for the job it has to do.
HOW TO APPOINT US
Take the whole chain or take one link
Design to stewardship
Every stage under a single appointment, materials included.
Engineering package only
Calculations, models, drawings and BOQ for your appointed contractor.
Install and commission
Delivery against an existing design, reviewed against our own model first.
Annual or project maintenance
Continuous AMC cover, or a defined scope with a start and an end.
Materials and spares
Direct supply to contractors and traders with technical selection support.
Audit and review
Independent assessment with a costed route to correcting it.
Appointed by
Main contractors
MEP subcontractors
Landscape contractors
Consultants and design houses
Developers and asset owners
Golf courses
Sports facilities and stadia
Municipalities and public realm
Hospitality and resorts
Master communities
Facilities management
Traders and distributors
Appointed by
Main contractors
MEP subcontractors
Landscape contractors
Consultants and design houses
Developers and asset owners
Golf courses
Sports facilities and stadia
Municipalities and public realm
Hospitality and resorts
Master communities
Facilities management
Traders and distributors
Regional coverage
Based in the UAE, working across the GCC
Local requirements differ from market to market. We prepare submittals to the standards of the authority reviewing them rather than to a single template.
UAE
Saudi Arabia
Oman
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Common Questions
Frequently asked
Can you be appointed for design only, or supply only?
Yes. Each of the five capabilities can be appointed independently. A consultant might take the design and BIM package alone. A contractor might take installation against a design already issued. A trader might take supply only.
Do you work with treated sewage effluent and mixed water sources?
Yes, and it changes the design. TSE affects filtration sizing, emitter selection, flushing frequency and material compatibility. Some sites draw from more than one source, or switch between them seasonally. The network and control strategy are designed around that from the start.
Do you offer annual maintenance contracts?
We work both ways. Annual maintenance contracts give continuous cover with scheduled servicing, seasonal controller adjustment, audits and defined response arrangements. Project-based maintenance covers a defined scope with a start and an end. That might be an efficiency audit, a retrofit, or remedial work on an underperforming system.
Can you support our materials submittals to the consultant?
That is a routine part of what we do. We provide technical datasheets, compliance certificates, equivalence justifications and supporting calculations in submittal-ready form. Where it helps clear an approval faster, we will respond to consultant comments directly.
Will you take on a system someone else designed or installed?
Yes. Before pricing installation or maintenance on an inherited system, we run our own hydraulic review and condition assessment. We then set out what we can stand behind, what needs correcting first, and what it will cost.
Corporate office
+971 4 590 4000
Start the conversation
Talk to our irrigation team
Whether you are planning a masterplan landscape, a golf course, a stadium pitch or a single streetscape. If there is irrigation involved, there is something we can contribute. We would welcome the conversation.