Water is a major component of the design stage. Through the lens of Google’s recently opened Bay View campus, this session will demonstrate how water plays a leading role in this human-centered workplace. The marriage between emerging technical approaches to architecture and nature-based solutions represents hope for a positive future in which technology and ecology exist in harmony.
Learning Objectives
- Appreciate the nuanced considerations involved with incorporating on-site water systems in a building, campus, or neighborhood.
- Learn how to advocate for early initiation of strategic water planning for projects.
- Adopt an innovative mindset for creating shared value among all partners to enable new solution sets to emerge.
- Better understand the regulatory, financial, and technical components of on-site water management that inform public/private partnerships, capital planning, and financial mechanisms for developer participation in sustainable water management planning and operations.