The Site Visit
Feb 3rd, 2012 by ychebunin
Today we finally managed to get out of lectures and labs and went down to Evergreen for our first site visit. While there, we were able to take note of site restraints, assessed the planter boxes, and made all the required measurements of the planter boxes. The area for our project is approximately 10,000 sq. ft (26m x 30m). There are 29 planter boxes in total: 17 big planters (7’x7′), and 12 small planters (8’x22″). These include 2 apple trees and various kids of berry bushes. There is quite some room between all of them, which means that integrating the irrigation system will not be a problem. We also found out that the planter boxes will not stay put permanently like they are right now, but will most likely be moved sometime in the near future. This means that out irrigation system of choice will have to be one that can be easily disassembled and put together again if the boxes were to be moved. In addition, we are not allowed to bury any hoses underground. While there we decided that we will choose several irrigation systems, present them to the client, and perhaps even test one on 2-4 irrigation boxes to see how it will work. Finally, we decided to give the client a complete proposal for irrigation system choices by the end of next week. Below are some pictures of our site visit, enjoy!
This is looking great!
When are you planning to do the installation? I’m thinking it would be ideal if you could be ready to go (i.e., have a conceptual design ok’d by client, detailed design, procurement list, implementation schedule, and safety plan) by the end of next week. This will leave you 2 weeks to do the installation…
Keep up the good work!
—SN