<强>在从 thegreencivilengineer该再交。COM ，鲍勃冯哈伯面临一个棘手的问题：“我是第一个绿色的伪君子？”你得到什么答案，当你问自己这个问题？
我是第一个绿色的伪君子？我可能是......这是一件相当有规律地我的斗争。我认为自己是一个对环境负责的个人和可持续发展是企业的核心宗旨，我公司成立。随着几乎所有的决定，我做，或至少是主要的，我尽量考虑这一决定，并采取行动的环境后果。但是，如果我说我总是让环保的选择，我会撒谎。大多数时候，有可能是一个很好的理由，但有时它真的只是一个偏好的问题。这是否让我一个绿色的伪君子？我希望不会，但我会留给别人来决定。 Here are some of my green and not-so-green decisions.
Civil engineers design them, landscape architects loath them, developers wonder why we need them and municipal engineers often require them - I hate them. Retention and Detention ponds have become the standard for stormwater management on commercial and residential projects throughout most of the US. They were originally intended for flood control and were later incorporated into water quality requirements as well. They serve in their capacity to attenuate peak flows from new development reasonably well, but their usefulness stops there. Here are a few of the reasons that I'm not a fan of detention/retention ponds:
Civil engineers design them, landscape architects loath them, developers wonder why we need them and municipal engineers often require them - I hate them. Retention and Detention ponds have become the standard for stormwater management on commercial and residential projects throughout most of the US. They were originally intended for flood control and were later incorporated into water quality requirements as well. They serve in their capacity to attenuate peak flows from new development reasonably well, but their usefulness stops there. Here are a few of the reasons that I'm not a fan of detention/retention ponds:
我一直提倡并设计绿色对于数年，现在基础设施和LID解决方案。在那些年里最常见的事情，我听到的是一个“那么，什么是它要花费我？”。假设始终是它要花费更多，他们常常希望它的成本更多。幸运的是，它往往更便宜，而不是更昂贵。这一点尤其与土木工程（雨水基础设施，分级，停车场，景观设计等）的情况下。客户端是，当我告诉他们，这将花费更少的自然怀疑，所以他们的下一条语句通常“真的！？，少了多少？”是。在回答这个问题，我已经发现，“嗯，这取决于”，并不总是靠谱，所以我已经把几的绿色VS传统设计元素。
我最近的土木工程师和其他土地开发专业人员主动提出意见的位很简单：去在雨中比赛。或者，如果你觉得你已经变得太旧（永远！）在雨中玩耍，至少走出去，看着它。典型的人类倾向留在下雨时里面，走出去检查你的建议，正在进行或已完成建设项目的网站上是可能的，你想要做的最后一件事，但它可以是一个巨大的学习经验。
One of the most important and effective ways to create sustainable designs is by taking a collaborative approach. Ideally all of the project stakeholders (owner, architect, engineers, contractors, etc.) are brought together before the design process begins, and the design process can be completely collaborative, with all parties providing valuable input based on their expertise. The reality, however, is that this collaboration rarely happens, especially on smaller-scale projects.
