Overview

This two hour continuing education course for architects, engineers and landscape architects is the fifth of seven programs on Green Building for Infrastructure: High Performance Infrastructure Best Practices following a required introductory module, Green Building for Infrastructure: High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines.  Building on the introductory pre-requisite, these seven additional programs illustrate Best Practices and provide a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to the Infrastructure activities of Cities and Municipalities.  This course covers planning, pollution and runoff control, drainage, detention, infiltration, catch basins and water quality.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe Green Building Best Practices as they apply to Stormwater Management;
2. Undertake a proactive, integrated planning approach to urban stormwater management to protect property and aquatic ecosystems while at the same time accommodating land development;
3. Develop and implement watershed-based drainage master plans and associated policies that seek to reduce, treat, and control stormwater runoff as close to its source as possible;
4. Over time, seek to eliminate combined sewer overflows, and improve water quality and urban hydrology;
5. Undertake pollution prevention and source control strategies to minimize damage to water sources and aquatic ecosystems;
6. Optimize right-of-way drainage through the use of stormwater management BMPs to reduce, detain, and treat stormwater runoff;
7. Use surface pretreatment BMPs to remove sediments, salts, pollution, and debris, and to reduce, slow, and evenly distribute stormwater;
8. Install catch basin inserts into existing catch basins to enhance onsite treatment of runoff;
9. Use water quality inlets — including oil and grit separators, media filters, and high- volume treatment devices – to treat the highly polluted water quality volume of the design storm;
10. Use underground detention structures to temporarily attenuate and store runoff during peak flow periods;
11. Use surface and underground infiltration structureswithin or adjacent to the right-of-way to reduce stormwater runoff volumes and peak flows, improve water quality, and promote groundwater recharge;
12. Use constructed wetlands – permanent pools of water that are populated by wetland plants and aquatic organisms – to reduce, detain and treat stormwater runoff;
13. Use the material to develop his or her own checklists to improve existing policies and procedure.

Other courses in the Green Building for Infrastructure series include:

1. Best Practices: Site Assessment (1 hour);
2. Best Practices: Streetscape (2 hours);
3. Best Practices: Pavement (2 hours);
4. Best Practices: Utilities (1 hour);
5. Best Pracitces: Stormwater Management (2 hours);
6. Best Practices: Landscape (2 hours);
7. Best Practices: Construction Practices (1 hour).

Qualifies for two credit hours of Green / Sustainable Design (2 PDH; 0.2 CEU).

 Acceptable continuing education for:

(AL) ALABAMA:Architect, (AL) ALABAMA:Engineer, (AK) ALASKA:Architect, (AK) ALASKA:Engineer, (AK) ALASKA:Landscape Architect, (AR) ARKANSAS:Engineer, (CO) COLORADO:Architect, (GA) GEORGIA:Architect, (GA) GEORGIA:Engineer, (ID) IDAHO:Engineer, (IL) ILLINOIS:Architect, (IN) INDIANA:Architect, (IN) INDIANA:Landscape Architect, (IA) IOWA:Architect, (IA) IOWA:Engineer, (KS) KANSAS:Architect, (KS) KANSAS:Engineer, (KS) KANSAS:Landscape Architect, (KY) KENTUCKY:Architect, (KY) KENTUCKY:Engineer, (LA) LOUISIANA:Architect, (LA) LOUISIANA; Engineer, (ME) MAINE:Engineer, (MN) MINNESOTA:Architect, (MN) MINNESOTA:Engineer, (MN) MINNESOTA:Landscape Architect, (MS) MISSISSIPPI:Architect, (MS) MISSISSIPPI:Engineer, (MS) MISSISSIPPI:Landscape Architect, (MO) MISSOURI:Architect, (MO) MISSOURI:Engineer, (MO) MISSOURI:Landscape Architect, (MT) MONTANA:Engineer, (NE) NEBRASKA:Architect, (NE) NEBRASKA:Engineer, (NE) NEBRASKA:Landscape Architect, (NV) NEVADA:Architect, (NV) NEVADA:Engineer, (NH) NEW HAMPSHIRE:Engineer, (NH) NEW HAMPSHIRE:Landscape Architect, (NM) NEW MEXICO:Architect, (NM) NEW MEXICO:Engineer, (NC) NORTH CAROLINA:Architect, (ND) NORTH DAKOTA:Engineer, (OH) OHIO:Architect, (OH) OHIO:Engineer, (OK) OKLAHOMA:Architect, (OK) OKLAHOMA:Engineer, (OR) OREGON:Architect, (OR) OREGON:Engineer, (PA) PENNSYLVANIA Engineer, (RI) RHODE ISLAND:Architect, (SC) SOUTH CAROLINA:Architect, (SC) SOUTH CAROLINA:Engineer, (SD) SOUTH DAKOTA:Engineer, (SD) SOUTH DAKOTA:Landscape Architect, (SD) SOUTH DAKOTA:Architect, (TN) TENNESSEE :Architect, (TN) TENNESSEE :Engineer, (TN) TENNESSEE :Landscape Architect, (TX) TEXAS:Architect, (TX) TEXAS:Engineer, (TX) TEXAS:Interior Designer, (TX) TEXAS:Landscape Architect, (UT) UTAH:Architect, (UT) UTAH:Engineer, (VT) VERMONT:Architect, (WV) WEST VIRGINIA:Architect, (WV) WEST VIRGINIA:Engineer, (WY) WYOMING:Engineer