Integrated Workflow and a New Tool for Urban Rainwater Management
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For stormwater management, Low Impact Development (LID) practices provide more sustainable solutions than traditional piping and storm ponds. However, to be effective, LID practices must be integrated into planning at the beginning of the design process; yet architects and related design professionals making early decisions are not equipped to consider runoff calculations with their current tools. Responding to this dilemma, we have developed a rainwater runoff evaluation and management tool: Rainwater+. Designers will be able to connect this tool to their modeling or drawing software, and receive real-time feedback on the runoff volume of their design and any subsequent changes. Designers can thereby develop appropriate rainwater management strategies for the project based on local precipitation data, specific standards, site conditions and economic considerations. This paper introduces the method, interface and application of this new tool.
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Integrated design workflow and a new tool for urban rainwater management.
Low Impact Development (LID) practices provide more sustainable solutions than traditional piping and storm ponds in stormwater management. However, architects are not equipped with the knowledge to perform runoff calculations at early design stage. In response to this dilemma, we have developed an open-source stormwater runoff evaluation and management tool, Rainwater+. It is seamlessly integr...
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