PPD: resources for site drainage, integration of program
Hello All,
I wonder if people can suggest a good resources to study these two topics for PPD test:
1. Site drainage. How to organize the drainage: which direction is best to drain water, where on the site the soil needs to be stabilized, etc..
2. Integration of program. how to organize certain programs in plan responding to adjacencies and other programmatic requirements.
Thank you
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Hi Artem,
On top of Suchitra's recommendation, I would also say check out PEA and MEEB.
Elif Bayram -
I'm specifically looking for the guidelines on where the soil needs to be stabilized relative to the building on the site and where to locate the drainage receptacles. Based on the configuration and location of the building different portions of the site might need stabilization...would like to learn about that...
I briefly skimmed through SPDH by T.Russ but it talks about site stabilization in general - not relative to the building.
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SPDH helped me pass SPD in 4.0
water travels down so it will go from the higher contour to the lower. I think In Ballast there was a question as to where water will go, if I remember it correctly it was 90 degrees to the contour but many other factors matter as well, swale, etc.
Look at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/sw_swppp_guide.pdf
this link also helped me.
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Brian,
I'm about to take the test and still have not found the material to answer the questions I posted above your message:
drainage organization on building site (where to drain water), soil stabilization on building site (where to stabilize soil).
Similarly, have not found materials for location of a building near bodies of water in various climates. There are several
threads here but none seems to have found the useful info.
Patrick,
If you mean "retaining walls" - those would be type of structures to organize grade changes and not
part of the building envelope. They are well described in both Fundamentals of Building Construction and Building Construction Illustrated.
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