PPD: resources for site drainage, integration of program

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Artem Melikyan

August 28, 2020 16:23

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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  Suchitra Van September 02, 2020 01:15

  SPD book and SWPPP info online. 

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  Elif Bayram September 02, 2020 03:28

  Hi Artem,

  On top of Suchitra's recommendation, I would also say check out PEA and MEEB.

   

  Elif Bayram

  info@arequestions.com

   

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  Artem Melikyan September 02, 2020 20:14

  Hi Elif. 

  I did study MEEB, but what is PEA?

  Thank you,

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  Jordan Sauer September 02, 2020 21:21

  What is SPD?

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  Artem Melikyan September 02, 2020 21:24

  I think it's Site Planning and Design Handbook by T.Russ

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  Andrew Kim September 03, 2020 18:14

  PEA is probably Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics by Lechner.

   

   

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  Artem Melikyan September 03, 2020 23:45

  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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  Suchitra Van September 05, 2020 00:33

  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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  Artem Melikyan September 09, 2020 05:15

  Thank you, this is a good resource.

  But I'm particularly trying to figure out where necessary stabilization has to occur specifically relative to the shape if the building contour.

  I think this source still talks about stabilization in general terms - not relative to the building.

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  Brian Blodnikar September 14, 2020 22:51

  Artem, 

  Have you taken the PPD yet?  I just took it today (got a more than likely failed) had two questions that related to these topics and would like to know as well.  I was taken by surprise by the two questions for these two topics.and the way that they were asked.

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  Patrick McGowan September 15, 2020 01:35

  I am studying for PPD too and would be interested in understanding more about retain walls and their physical relationship to the building envelope.

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  Artem Melikyan September 15, 2020 02:38

  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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