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From the Library from Environmental Building News
August 1, 1998
Introduction to Stormwater
Stormwater management is a vitally important component of almost any green building project (see EBN Vol. 3, No. 5). Environmentally responsible stormwater management can even be an economic driver of a broader green building agenda: using the savings achieved by finding alternatives to conventional storm sewers and detention ponds to pay for other green features in a large project. Given the importance of stormwater, it is surprising that there are so few information resources that are written to be accessible to the typical architect, builder, or developer. With Ferguson’s Introduction to Stormwater, we finally have such a resource. The book is reasonably comprehensive, yet you don’t need an engineering degree to understand it. Plus, there is a strong emphasis on the many environmental benefits of thoughtful stormwater management —which is not surprising, as Ferguson studied landscape architecture under Ian McHarg in the 1970s....
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