Green & Innovative Design
Permeable pavers reduce the need for gutters and curbing
Permeable Parking Lot Paving
Parking lots surfaced with permeable pavers help control runoff, mitigate storm surge, and improve water quality overall by permitting storm water to percolate safely and naturally back to the ground water supply. Not only does this paving provide a better solution environmentally, but aesthetically, it is also preferable to black top or concrete paving.
Permeable paving also serves to greatly reduce the need for curbing, gutters and large storm water systems since most of the surface water percolates through the pavers to an aggregate storage layer below.
Parking lots surfaced with permeable pavers help control runoff, mitigate storm surge, and improve water quality overall by permitting storm water to percolate safely and naturally back to the ground water supply. Not only does this paving provide a better solution environmentally, but aesthetically, it is also preferable to black top or concrete paving.
Permeable paving also serves to greatly reduce the need for curbing, gutters and large storm water systems since most of the surface water percolates through the pavers to an aggregate storage layer below.
Market at Colonnade, Raleigh, NC
Rooftop Rain Water Capture
In technologically progressive Raleigh, NC, a 65,000 SF shopping center has adopted an environmentally sensitive cistern system to store and reuse rooftop rain water runoff rather than burdening city storm sewers and contaminating the water in the process.
At Wellington Gardens we plan to install and utilize similar technology to position Wellington among the first in the nation to demonstrate a more commercially responsible treatment of our important fresh water resources.
Wellington Gardens will be a model development for responsible water management practices.
In technologically progressive Raleigh, NC, a 65,000 SF shopping center has adopted an environmentally sensitive cistern system to store and reuse rooftop rain water runoff rather than burdening city storm sewers and contaminating the water in the process.
At Wellington Gardens we plan to install and utilize similar technology to position Wellington among the first in the nation to demonstrate a more commercially responsible treatment of our important fresh water resources.
Wellington Gardens will be a model development for responsible water management practices.
Made in the Shade
In most public places where there is a high percentage of hard, man-made surfaces there is a significant increase in radiant temperature due to the hard surface absorption, retention and radiation of heat back to the local environment - an asphalt parking lot on a hot, sunny day is no place to be. Wellington Gardens will make extensive use of shade trees to significantly raise the level of what climate experts refer to as thermal comfort. Trees, unlike solid man-made surfaces such as shade roofs or walls, trap very little radiant heat, are coolest near the ground surface and provide for natural ventilation and air movement even when surrounding air is relatively still. They are nature's best evaporative coolers.
The avoidance of black top, asphalt-surfaced parking areas will also reduce radiant heat along with a good landscape plan that promotes natural airflow and lower humidity. Through judicious planning and thoughtful landscape selection Wellington Gardens will create a micro-climate that should provide for greater thermal comfort outdoors even during our hottest, sunniest days.
In most public places where there is a high percentage of hard, man-made surfaces there is a significant increase in radiant temperature due to the hard surface absorption, retention and radiation of heat back to the local environment - an asphalt parking lot on a hot, sunny day is no place to be. Wellington Gardens will make extensive use of shade trees to significantly raise the level of what climate experts refer to as thermal comfort. Trees, unlike solid man-made surfaces such as shade roofs or walls, trap very little radiant heat, are coolest near the ground surface and provide for natural ventilation and air movement even when surrounding air is relatively still. They are nature's best evaporative coolers.
The avoidance of black top, asphalt-surfaced parking areas will also reduce radiant heat along with a good landscape plan that promotes natural airflow and lower humidity. Through judicious planning and thoughtful landscape selection Wellington Gardens will create a micro-climate that should provide for greater thermal comfort outdoors even during our hottest, sunniest days.
