Center for Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS)

2014

The Best Urban BMP in the Bay Award (BUBBA) “First Place Winner”

Best Combination of BMPs in a Series

GREEN ROOF6,350 sq.ft. green roof area that drains to bio-retention area below.

PERVIOUS PAVERS5,355 sq.ft. pervious paver area that drains to stone under layer and overflows into the adjacent bio-retentions area.

BIO-RETENTION AREAS(Pretreatment and Water Quality)

Front 1,975 cu.ft. area that receives overflow from the pervious pavers and a rear 2,348 cu.ft. area that receives over flow from both the green roof and the internal cisterns.

RAIN WATER HARVESTINGRoof water is collected in twin 2,000 gallon cisterns and then undergoes a filtering process for utilization in the gray water reuse system. The overflow is directed to the rear bio-retention area.