Sentences with phrase «as stormwater infrastructure»

Her projects include the 82 - story Aqua Tower, the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year; the SOS Lavezzorio Community Center, an award - winning building designed using donated materials; and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, an educational pavilion and landscape that also function as stormwater infrastructure.

Not exact matches

The city's infrastructure just hasn't grown as fast as the city itself, and trucks waiting for hours in line will sometimes dump their loads into stormwater drains.

Causative factors include decayed infrastructure; facility malfunctions; or heavy rainfall events which overwhelm systems using combined sewers and stormwater drains (known as combined sewer overflows).

As a member of the DRWI, we have led the push to advance green stormwater infrastructure and assess scientific and economic findings to create a plan to improve upstream / downstream connected buffer protections within the Basin in Pennsylvania.

We conducted research across the country to demonstrate what others are doing, and then we developed two feasibility assessments for green stormwater infrastructure implementation as part of the Livable Centers Initiative vision.

This process ensures that rooflite green roof media can be used as a proven, consistent, and reliable component of urban infrastructure to manage stormwater.

In recent years, green roofs have gained more and more recognition as an important part of green infrastructure and as an excellent way to manage stormwater in urban areas.

As green roofs have become a preferred method to manage stormwater in urban areas, more and more cities are creating incentives to encourage green infrastructure.

Green Infrastructure controls stormwater by using it as a resource rather than a waste.

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Meeting regulations on infrastructure such as stormwater drainage and tree mitigation mean that developing a small lot — less than one - eighth acre — costs as much as developing a half - acre lot did in the past, he explained.