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Integrating Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Management Infrastructure: Double Benefit-Single Cost
Stormwater management infrastructure and its associated costs are now compulsory in commercial development and increasingly common across a wide array of residential construction. Rainwater and site water harvesting is fast becoming a staple in sustainable developments and green building design and construction, and is a key tool in Low Impact Design. Typical implementations of the two involve simply adding harvesting infrastructure into the drainage profile of the required stormwater management systems for the site, thus imparting the full incremental cost of the harvesting system on the project. However, new, innovative techniques for integrating these systems allow for substantial savings on the combined cost — potentially as much as 50% — due to application of progressive design concepts and use of newly developed control systems to manage the interaction of these systems. The result is no less than a paradigm shift in the way sustainable site water management designs will emerge in the future, where the double benefit of water conservation and stormwater management can be achieved at a minimized cost — often close to the cost of the stormwater infrastructure itself. This paper presents design concepts and techniques for incorporating this integrated approach in site stormwater design, which can result in a new tool for LID practitioners where water conservation is a key objective along with compulsory stormwater management designs.
Integrating Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Management Infrastructure: Double Benefit-Single Cost
Stormwater management infrastructure and its associated costs are now compulsory in commercial development and increasingly common across a wide array of residential construction. Rainwater and site water harvesting is fast becoming a staple in sustainable developments and green building design and construction, and is a key tool in Low Impact Design. Typical implementations of the two involve simply adding harvesting infrastructure into the drainage profile of the required stormwater management systems for the site, thus imparting the full incremental cost of the harvesting system on the project. However, new, innovative techniques for integrating these systems allow for substantial savings on the combined cost — potentially as much as 50% — due to application of progressive design concepts and use of newly developed control systems to manage the interaction of these systems. The result is no less than a paradigm shift in the way sustainable site water management designs will emerge in the future, where the double benefit of water conservation and stormwater management can be achieved at a minimized cost — often close to the cost of the stormwater infrastructure itself. This paper presents design concepts and techniques for incorporating this integrated approach in site stormwater design, which can result in a new tool for LID practitioners where water conservation is a key objective along with compulsory stormwater management designs.
Integrating Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Management Infrastructure: Double Benefit-Single Cost
Reidy, Philip C. (author)
International Low Impact Development Conference 2008 ; 2008 ; Seattle, Washington, United States
2008-11-10
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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