지속가능한 인프라구축 교육기관(ISI)는 최근 텍사스 북부 Tarrant 지역의 용수구역이 J라인의 섹션 1 파이프라인 프로젝트로 Envision 사의 지속가능한 인프라구축 시스템 은상을 받았다고 발표했다. 이 파이프라인은 ISI의 창립멤버인 Freese and Nichols 사에 의해 설계됐다.

Envision 은상을 받은 프로젝트는 2 마일, 108 인치짜리 파이프라인으로, Kennedale Balancing Reservoir에서 Arlington 아울렛으로 바로 물을 공급한다.

 

 

Texas water district earns ISI Envision Silver Award for pipeline project
    
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) recently announced that the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) of North Central Texas has earned the Envision™ sustainable infrastructure rating system's Silver award for its Line J, Section 1 Pipeline project. The pipeline was designed by Freese and Nichols, Inc., a charter member of ISI. 

 

The Envision Silver award-winning project is a two-mile, 108-inch diameter pipeline delivering water from the Kennedale Balancing Reservoir directly to the Arlington Outlet, dedicating a significant amount of water demand from the existing pipelines and allowing TRWD to meet future demands at the Rolling Hills Water Treatment line and locations further west. The water delivered to the Arlington Outlet can be either piped through the existing discharge facility or travel through to the new hydroelectric facility.

 

The Envision system measures sustainability in infrastructure projects through the measurement of five categories: Quality of Life (QL), Leadership (LD), Natural World (NW), Resource Allocation (RA), and Climate and Risk (CR), that contribute to overall credits for the positive social, economic and environmental impacts in a community in the planning, design and construction of infrastructure projects. The highest-rated project categories that the TRWD Pipeline scored using the Envision rating system included:

 

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 9월 23일]