SuDS implementation scales
- The different sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) allow to propose a SuDS approach to different implementation scales, which can be subdivided as follow:
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- building
- property lots
- street and parking
- open spaces
- Retrofitting of existing green areas
IRIDRA proposes the SuDS approach for all the scales, from single houses to public open spaces, up to big peri-urban areas.
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
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Single house scale
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Lot scale
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Parking
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Roads
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Urban planning and public spaces
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Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Source: Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas
Retrofitting of existing green areas
Source: Woods Ballard et al. 2015. "The SuDS Manual"
References
IRIDRA's authors are highlighted in bold.
Masi F., Rizzo A., Bresciani R., Sustainable Rainwater Management in the City: Opportunities and Solutions for the Anthropic Environmental Impacts Reduction and Urban Resilience Increase, in "Smart Metropolia - Przestrzenie RelacjiPublisher: Obszar Metropolitalny Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot ul. Dlugi Targ 39/40, 80-830 Gdansk, 109-119; 978-83-65496-02-07, 2018.
Huber, J., 2010. Low Impact Development: a Design Manual for Urban Areas. Fay-etteville, AR: University of Arkansas Community Design Center.
Woods Ballard, B., Wilson, S., Udale-Clarke, H., Illman, S., Scott, T., Ashley, R. and Kellagher, R., 2015. The SuDS Manual, C753, CIRIA, London, UK. ISBN 978-0-86017-760-9.