ACO Water
Management will be discussing its urban and rural regeneration expertise at
Regen 2018. The event focuses on the reclamation of urban sites and the
optimisation value of green and public spaces.
Held at St George’s Hall, Liverpool,
across the 7th –
8th November, the
ACO team will be on hand to support visitors in
their enquiries on stand, A9. The team will be available to discuss the
comprehensive design support and service tools offered by ACO, as well as its professional development
programme.
Water Management is an essential part of
the planning for sites that are to be regenerated. If sufficient pollution or
contamination were to occur, not only would it add significant cost to the
remediation process, but it could threaten the suitability of land for
redevelopment. According to the Environment Agency’s Guiding Principles for Land
Contamination (GPLC2), successful plans must be able to evidence a disruption
between the potential source of contamination, the pathway and the receptor.
In recent years, ACO has provided its water management solutions for a
number of regeneration projects, such as Buckshaw Village, Oxford railway
station and Titanic Belfast, one of the world’s
largest urban-waterfront regeneration projects. The surface water management
solution surrounding the Titanic Belfast Museum site needed to quickly convey
water and cope with footfall from many visitors, as well as be aesthetically
pleasing. ACO’s Heelguard™
gratings, fitted to MultiDrain MD channels, were installed around the plaza to
protect pedestrians, and sloping invert channels were used to efficiently convey
water out into the river Lagan.
Mark Halsall, Regional Sales Engineer at
ACO, commented: “As leaders in the field of water
management, ACO has provided solutions for many
brownfield sites and regeneration projects. We’re looking forward to Regen 2018,
and meeting attendees to discuss projects and the water management solutions for
them.”
ACO is a world
leader in the design, development and implementation of sustainable water
management systems. Its full range of application specific drainage products and
services provides architects, specifiers and engineers with a complete package
of integrated systems, suitable for use across the entire spectrum of civil
engineering projects.
For more information on ACO, please visit www.aco.co.uk.
