Moving Forward!
Feb 3rd, 2012 by Matteo Agnoloni
We have made a ton of progress over the last week. We have gotten a hold of the Sustainable Sites Initiative guidelines and have been thoroughly reviewing them. The section of the SSI that is relevant to our project is the “Site Water- Design” section. In this section, there are a list of prerequisites that are basically the guidelines which will determine how “green” the Buchanan Courtyards actually are. The prerequisites that we need to evaluate for our project are the following:
Basically, the more points that are scored for each prerequisite, the more “green” the Buchanan Courtyards are. Our job over the next few weeks will be to find all the necessary data required for these prerequisites. Some of this data includes finding evapotranspiration data, rainfall data, and the area of the courtyards. We will be working hard to gather this information, so we can see just how “green” the courtyards are!
We were also given some civil engineering drawings of the site, which helped us gain a greater understanding of how the drainage system installed in the courtyards actually worked.
Enquiring minds want to know…
Incidentally – your counterparts looking at Agricultural Road met recenly with Jeff Nulty from Building Ops. Are you planning on meeting with him?
Good work.
Re the rainfall data etc, please see my 2nd comment for your week 2 post. I also have background slides on how you can proceed with your calcs.
Regards,
–SN