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Dr.Thiruvelavan posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 14 years, 9 months ago
hai nice to join in this group
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Brent Jacobsen posted an update in the group
Design Implementation 14 years, 9 months ago
Tim, Jay, and others –
Just found this group, and am happy to see it exists. I am actually one of the Masters students you spoke about who is lacking direct landscape construction experience. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments, and see this as a huge problem. Do you have any suggestions on the best methods for acquiring this experience?…[Read more]
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Eric Shepley posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Does anyone have good method for doing evergreen shadows in photoshop with the drop shadow?
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Oona Johnsen posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
Potentially greywater could be treated in a bioswale or series of detention ponds, but in California, this system is impossible to permit (Does anyone know of any States who allow this?). However, you can treat stormwater in that method.
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Baskar G posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
how about grey water treating with wetlands/ aerobic system? there is need for open bond rite? instead using in sewage water treatment along with chemicals?
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Oona Johnsen posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
There are strict standards for greywater irrigation – it should not come in contact with people – therefore it is subsurface and also its application is dependent on soil percolation rate, meaning it should not pond to the surface. Not to say with all the rules it is not possible. More potable water is used irrigating landscapes than for basic…[Read more]
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Charles A. Warsinske posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
I always thought that greywater has too many pathogens to be safely used for irrigation anywhere people would come in contact with it. Not true?
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Oona Johnsen posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
I just started working at a new firm, Rana Creek. The first LEED project I am working on is a large scale neighborhood renovation project that will capture greywater from showers & laundry for a for landscape irrigation. It turns out from our initial calculations, all the homes intended for water harvesting collected too much water, so we needed…[Read more]
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Well said Mark, our proffesion is so variable that it makes it easy for others to put us in a box on one side of it which I find to be simply ‘lanscaping’. We need to work together as a profession to be “armed with facts and calculations” to give creditability to the profession across the board.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Mark O'Hara posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
This issue is complicated and to say that rain gardens are the answer is not much different than the traditional infrastructure approach, where one solution can solve all problems. In most instances and geographic locations, the solution needs to include water quality and quantity solutions to solve the problem. Rain gardens, bio-swales and…[Read more]
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Charles,
“Blame it on the Rain” – Milli Vanilli
Well, not really. I just wanted to quote them! Policy is a difficult thing. Until every land owner is charged by the city for the real cost of thier stormwater impacts from a pre development hydrology, there will be uncecesary systems put ini place.
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Charles A. Warsinske posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Cole
Good comments. It is annoying to listen to disciples of the “new” green movement who lack the understanding necessary to design facilities that actually work and can be maintained (sustained). Even here in the NW we have LID facilities being required in locations where they just will not work.
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Robin, not to be a sceptic: I have recently moved to hawaii though spent the last 5 years in the califonia working for a large engineering firm. It is difficult to get buy in from the engineers as the systems are simply not as functional there as they are in the NW. The reason for this is that the NW has rain year round whereas cali has no rain…[Read more]
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Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
James Richards is great. I love his simple color palette. He blends darker colors in his lighter colors to make things look cohesive. For instance, he used carmine red and true blue (i think it was true blue) prismacolor color pencils over cream to create this really nice effect. So, the cream hardscape and buildings really popped after i tried to…[Read more]
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Lisa Port, APLD posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
….and a nicely planted raingarden, or artful rainwater catchment system usually looks better, provided it works correctly, than the typical curb and gutter system. I have found that the client is usally into this aspect of LID. In residential applications, is it wonderful if they take ownership of the process and work to make regulatory change…[Read more]
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Ryan Templeton posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
I have found that it is best to be part of the design process early on, integrating bmp and lid strategies into the program. Working with the engineers can often open up more opportunities and gain momentum to make green strategies more tangible to designers, since we can explain the simplicity and practicality of these strategies. In most cases,…[Read more]
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Lisa Port, APLD posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Great website–thanks for pointing it out. Living in Seattle, I have visited many of the listed projects, urban and rural, but many more are coming on board. In 2010 some Seattle homeowners will receive $$ rebates for installing rain gardens and cisterns to reduce CSO into Puget Sound and Lake Union. read more: http://www.seattle.gov/util/rainwise
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Charles A. Warsinske posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
I am currently working on a classroom addition for a high school which is a LEED project. We are designing a central courtyard that demonstrates a variety of LID features. These include porous concrete paving, four rain gardens and a cistern that collects rain water from the roof. Most of the materials being used have some recycled content. We are…[Read more]
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Vanessa Lindley Santos posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
hi everybody, i just graduated with my MLA and was worried I couldn’t take a LEED exam without LEED experience, I scanned and attached my diploma to the registration and I’m qualified to take the LEED GA – I haven’t received the study materials yet because they’re on backorder but thought I’d let the word out
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Oona Johnsen posted an update in the group
LEED in Landscape Architecture 14 years, 9 months ago
Is anyone working on a LEED project now? How is it going? Share with us…
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