Urban Building and Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last three decades, rapid urbanization accompanied by great achievements in construction has resulted in a series of problems of urban ecology, environment, resources and security in urban areas. The environmental issues are largely perceived as obstacles impeding sustainable economic development.

A series of practices, including the publication of mandatory regulations, policy support, standard updates and revisions, etc., have been proposed to address these drainage problems in China. Alongside the reconstruction and upgrading of traditional drainage infrastructures (gray infrastructures), green stormwater infrastructures (GSIs) and low-impact developments (LIDs) are other important components of modern urban drainage engineering practices. GSIs provide an alternative approach to urban sustainable stormwater management, and is a relatively new method even in developed countries.

In order to address the problems of the urban environment and promote the construction of GSIs, a new concept and related technical methodology, called “sponge city,” was proposed in China. National pilot city and demonstration city mode were adopted to promote this the concept. Until now, sponge city-related construction has been implemented in 90 national pilot and demonstration cities, and more than 600 cities have prepared special sponge city development planning. GSIs have a greater application potential at the building and community scales. GSI practices are more feasible in newly developed buildings and communities than in older urban sections. Accompanied by the process of urbanization, a large number of new districts are developing or will be developed in the near future; these provide an important precondition for the implementation of GSIs.

This Special Issue calls for attention and discussion on up-to-date findings of urban building and green stormwater infrastructure (e.g., monitoring, mechanism and technology), as well as the frontiers of planning technics and approaches to actualize the sustainable drainage. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Runoff pollution characteristics of buildings and residential areas;
• Advances of technologies or methods applied to building drainage;
• Stormwater management mechanism (gray and green) in the building and community;
• New technologies for stormwater management (gray and green) in the building and community;
• Advances in technologies or methods for the planning and design of the building and community drainage system;
• Sustainable assessment of drainage system in the building and community aided by new data/approaches;
• Drainage modeling and uncertainty analysis in the building and community;
• Theoretical and empirical studies on sustainable drainage and sponge city construction;
• Building drainage in extreme precipitation and climate change.

Dr. Wei Zhang
Guest Editor

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• building drainage
• green stormwater infrastructures
• stormwater management
• runoff pollution
• building and community
• sustainable assessment
• model uncertainty analysis
• sponge city
• extreme precipitation
• climate change