Comments on: SUDS LID WSUD Urban Drainage Systems and landscape architecture

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:12 +0000

Thankyou Lindis. The SUDS projects in the PDF are very interesting!

The following research on SUDS and the two powerpoint presentations included are worth a look.
[ http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s9639931/Research/ ] (See especially land contamination.)

By: Lindis

Lindis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:17:53 +0000

Hi,

I’d recommend taking a look at this PDF. It has some descriptions and images of inspiering SUDS projects!

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=27400012

This website usefull for permeable paving:

http://www.paving.org.uk/permeable.php

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:31:27 +0000

Maybe the people of South Australia are going to have to move themselves and their cities to North Australia (and ditto for Americans moving into Canada).

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:38:24 +0000

Robert, If you are fortuneate enough to be expecting more water due to climate change, perhaps it could be sold to countries which are expecting water deficients due to climate change!

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Yes. It is normal practice in the US for stormwater to detained on roofs and in car parks. If it is also transpired then so much the better.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:22:33 +0000

I have always thought of a SUDS project as based on ground level (swales, filtration strips etc.), but in a vastly urbanised built up area would green roofs act in a similar way to reduce run off? Almost like elevated retention ponds?

By: Robert Holden

Robert Holden — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:04:05 +0000

Dear fellow inhabitants of planet earth,

Of course SUDS is one means whereby landscape architects and engineers can ameliorate the effects of climate change, given one characteristic of climate change is a greater intensity of storms.

I recommend two websites:

1 that of the Environmental Protection Agency
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=6

2 that of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in respect of their National Water Plan

http://www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/english/topics/water/

and in Dutch
http://www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/onderwerpen/water/water_en_toekomst/nationaal_waterplan/

Yours,

Robert Holden

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:58:16 +0000

None of Europe’s medieval streets could have been built under current legislation. They mostly exemplified SUDS principles when they were built – but now they have been sealed in the interests of ‘modernization’.
It is equally wrong for England to have a National Curriculum for schools. Scotland is much wiser: it has no National Curriculum.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:35:56 +0000

America’s Low Impact Development Centre site has links through to the great streets initiative. [ http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/nycsr/what-makes-a-great-street ] Unfortuneately, the site on ‘What makes a Great Street?’ [in New York] specifies a one size fits all formula, as if all streets were the same everywhere!

Even in New York there are a variety of street types….and all cities are themselves inherently different with their own rythm and culture. As Richard Roger says;

“…when I go to Japan I don’t become Japanese any more than when I go to New York do I become a New Yorker. Tokyo and New York, to just take two examples, are different.  The regulations are different. I try to absorb, as we all architects, what’s happening in that area, what the scale, the grade, what the forms of the buildings are, the morphology of the buildings are and that gives me food for thought, food for design.”

[ http://www.egodesign.ca/en/article_print.php?article_id=486 ]