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    Sustainable site planning involves comprehensive site assessment and analysis to minimize environmental impacts and maximize resource efficiency. The key aspects of sustainable site planning include: 1) Conducting site selection and analysis to choose locations that avoid environmental risks like floods and protect natural resources. 2) Implementing best practices for site development, layout, landscaping, and infrastructure to integrate the building with the site's natural features. 3) Reducing impervious surfaces, managing stormwater effectively, and implementing grading and landscaping approaches that protect soil and water resources.

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    Sustainable site planning involves comprehensive site assessment and analysis to minimize environmental impacts and maximize resource efficiency. The key aspects of sustainable site planning include: 1) Conducting site selection and analysis to choose locations that avoid environmental risks like floods and protect natural resources. 2) Implementing best practices for site development, layout, landscaping, and infrastructure to integrate the building with the site's natural features. 3) Reducing impervious surfaces, managing stormwater effectively, and implementing grading and landscaping approaches that protect soil and water resources.

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    Sustainable site planning involves comprehensive site assessment and analysis to minimize environmental impacts and maximize resource efficiency. The key aspects of sustainable site planning include: 1) Conducting site selection and analysis to choose locations that avoid environmental risks like floods and protect natural resources. 2) Implementing best practices for site development, layout, landscaping, and infrastructure to integrate the building with the site's natural features. 3) Reducing impervious surfaces, managing stormwater effectively, and implementing grading and landscaping approaches that protect soil and water resources.

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    SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

    Ques. How is sustainable site planning done?

    Sustainable site planning starts with the appraisal of developing a site. Examination and
    evaluation of the site attributes as far as its ability to give natural resources like light, air and
    water and the degree to which the current natural framework will be expected to help building
    development.

    1. Site assessment
    Site assessment is a cycle that detects potential issues that influence the site's sustainability. For
    example, an analysis could identify vegetation type, explicit soil kinds, as well as their
    characteristics, siting, and orientation conditions. A thorough site assessment is completed at
    three levels:

    Site selection: - This course of site determination for sustainable development identification
    and gauging the propriety of the site concerning sustainable building planrules. This frequently
    should be done some time before the venture's plan phase are starts. The fundamental agenda
    for the site choice is as under:
    • Avoid flood fields: Proceeded with development in natural flood plain regions has
    added to expanded flooding, diminished flooding, and expanded soil misfortune.
    • Give cradles to waterways: Development around waterways, for example, streams and
    wetlands ought to be restricted and incorporate supports of undisturbed areas of 50' -' at
    least 100.
    • Keep away from greenfields: Greenfields and brownfields are frequently more
    affordable to create, put less weight on framework, and cutoff the natural effect of
    developing already lacking sites.
    • Remember transportation: The transportation of individuals and merchandise to a site
    can make significant impacts. Attempt to choose sites open by open and non-
    mechanized transportation.

    a. Site Development and Layouts: -


    After the potential factor affecting the sustainable design have been analyzed and assessed, site
    can be selected. Site development can be carried out on the basis of best practice followed in
    each of the following potential areas: -
    • Non-mechanized existing features
    • Siting and Orientation
    • Appropriate Landscaping
    • Utility or Site Infrastructure
    • Pavements
    • Exterior Lighting
    • Construction Management

    b. Site analysis

    The primary reason for site analysis is to determine the site qualities so that appropriate
    seepage framework, dissemination design, landscape plan, and many other site
    development highlights can be viewed as building plan boundaries such as fabricated
    structure, sun-based orientation, shape, materials carried out, underlying and mechanical
    frameworks can be viewed as a site study can be completed based on the four following
    considerations: ecological, utility/infrastructural, social, and authentic. The following is
    the agenda for recognizing site trademarks based on the above-mentioned considerations:

    Utilization of provable energy-efficient building methods that have been developed and
    supported in the local environment or societal qualities and can be used or modified to fit
    the intended plan.

    c. Impenetrable Surfaces:
    Extending a site's impenetrability can have a significant impact on the water cycle. Impenetrable
    surfaces reduce groundwater recharge, increase pollution loads and spillover, and have an intense
    island effect. It is critical to keep the impassable zones on location to a minimum. This frequently
    improves a site's fashionable attraction, reduces the natural impression, and saves money. The
    following steps will help to reduce site impenetrability.

    • Reduce leaving regions by adhering to the basic drafting code or less, merging minimal vehicle
    spaces whenever possible, and shrinking lane sizes.

    • Provide plantings in and around stopping areas.

    • Implement green roofs.

    • Implement previous clearing options such as pervious asphalt/black-top, pervious concrete,


    pervious pavers, and "grass clear" frameworks.
    d. Grading considerations:
    The natural effects of mass evaluating a development or it are frequently ignored to construct
    site. Site reviewing obliterates the natural biological system present inside the dirt. This

    The biological system separates pollutants, gives supplements to biota, upholds bug and animal
    life,and has various different advantages. It requires many years the dirt to recreate from mass
    evaluating; at times it won't ever do. Soil disintegration, which can be a brief or permanent
    impact of evaluating, dirties waterways and washes important soil off-site. At the point when
    potential we ought to attempt to restrict evaluating activities as in the distances given
    underneath.
    • Under 10' past valuations, decks, surface stopping, and utilities.
    • Under 40' past the building edge.
    • Under 15' past essential street checks.
    • Under 25' past developed regions with penetrable surfaces (like pervious clearing,
    stormwater detainment regions, and battlegrounds).

    e. Stormwater Management:
    Stormwater overflow is one of the most significant natural effects of a developed site, but it
    also provides one of the biggest opportunities for sustainable planning. Everything mentioned
    above contributes to liprevioushe amount and speed with which storm water leaves the land, as
    well as to improving water quality. However, developing a place can drastically alter the
    hydrologic cycle for the property and surrounding region. Steps may and should be taken to
    maintain or even further develop the pre-development hydrology. Many metropolitan policies
    anticipate that the post-development overflow rate will not exceed the pre-development rate,
    but they do not address spillover quantity. These rules are primarily concerned with flood
    control and do not address groundwater recharge.
    f. Landscape Plan:
    Landscape design is sometimes overlooked during the preliminary planning stages and is
    added at the end of the project. This training is terrible and limits the numerous benefits that
    legitimate landscape design may provide, aside from style. However, improper landscape
    design can have serious repercussions such as excessive use of consumable water for
    landscaping and disintegration. The following is a list of items to think about during the site
    planning phase and throughout the plan interaction.

    • Restrict consumable water usage to local species, designate landscape areas for overflow, and
    use captured rainwater.

    • Hide massive hardscapes.

    • Hide buildings in the summer and let sunlight in during the winter.

    • Identify and configure landscape regions for storm water channeling and cleaning.

    • Place raingardens in stopping zones.

    -GAGAN DEEP
    GCAD/18/110

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