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Oldcastle® Green Solutions is increasing its share of the growing market for architectural products and is always looking for talented employees.
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Subterra Stone | Aqua-Roc | Eco-Dublin | Glen Gery Brick
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Eco-Dublin
Landscape Materials
In creating a water and energy efficient landscape, Madera chose the following features and products:
Concrete Pavers
The Uni Eco-Stone® Paving System is designed to reduce stormwater runoff through infiltration, while providing a highly durable, yet permeable pavement capable of supporting vehicles.
Compaction Reduction
The open mesh design of the Grass Trac® Turf system, which is a heavy-duty wire mesh with torsioned flat wire reinforcement that can be installed before sodding or over existing turf, allows rainwater to percolate freely into the soil, while creating a drivable turf, recharging ground water and reducing runoff.
Infiltration Tanks
The Atlantis Matrix® Module, used with Atlantis Geotextile®, were installed underground to provide on-site percolation of excess runoff.
Irrigation System
A well-designed irrigation system was installed that includes drip irrigation around the landscape plantings to reduce water loss through evaporation.
Installation
Low-Impact Development requires more precise engineering for soil characteristics, filtration rates, water tables, native vegetation, natural habitat and other site features. For residential development, participation of environmental consultants and planners is critical from the early on.
Benefits / Costs
Cost benefits to builders and developers utilizing LID strategies can be significant. According to the Center for Watershed Protection, traditional curbs, gutters, storm drain inlets, piping, and detention basins can cost two to three times more than engineered grass swales and other techniques to handle roadway runoff. Other LID strategies can have similar impact. Choosing permeable pavement for a parking area may remove the need for catch-basin and conveyance piping. Small distributed filtration areas on individual lots can reduce site requirements for larger detention ponds that take up valuable land area.
Madera saved $40,000 in stormwater costs by using existing forested basins as catchment areas rather than grading new ponds. Green Trust did this by performing a topographic survey early in the planning process.
Note: This case study is composed of excerpts from the original PATH (Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing) study published in 2005. It has been reproduced with the permission of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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