The landscape tends to be designed and engineered separately. This can be to the mutual detriment of each process and lead to wasted effort and lost opportunity. When an engineer receives a vision laid out by an architect he may have to compromise certain aspects of the design for many possible reasons. Ensuring runoff will be properly managed is one such reason. Therefore it would be advantageous to assess site hydrology and its consequential effects, namely erosion, throughout the design process. This will not only help preserve the aesthetic value of the vision of the architect but allow that vision to manifest greater functionality. Moreover, the necessary engineering analysis performed throughout the design will vary with what would be done at the end. Iterative, design-driven analysis could likely allow for greater simplification up front, sounder assumptions upon design completion and potentially less overall work.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:20:46 +0000
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