Download - Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
1/33
Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse:The Historic Seaholm Power Plant
Kent S. Butler, Ph.D.1
Adam C. Roy2
John Rosato3
1 Univ. of Texas at Austin2 Seaholm Power Ltd3 Seaholm Power Ltd
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
2/33
Seaholm Power Plant
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
3/33
DOWNTOWN AUSTIN, 2006
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
4/33THE FIRST AUSTIN POWER PLANT, 1893
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
5/33Seaholm Power Plant at Full-scale Production, late 1950s
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
6/33POWER PLANT SITE REMEDIATED, 2006
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
7/33
ORIGINAL SITE PLAN DRAWING, LATE 1940s
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
8/33
SEAHOLM DISTRICT
MASTER PLAN, 2000
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
9/33
TBG: Perspective
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
10/33
TURBINE HALL SCHEME -- SECTION
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
11/33
West Side Entry
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
12/33
Town Lake
Turbine Building
Office Building(NEW)
Highrise Hotel/Condominium
(NEW)
Water Intake& Pumphouse
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
13/33
HotelHotel
OfficesOffices
ParkingParking
Turbine BuildingTurbine Building
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
14/33
FEASIBILITY STUDY: PAYBACK PERIODS
Years to Achieve Return on Investment
Water Price Inflation
(%)
Scenario 2 3 4 5
A 29 23 20 19
B 27 21 20 18
C 34 29 26 22
D 46 36 30 27
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
15/33
CONDENSER COOLING SYSTEM PLAN
Shoal Creek
To
wnLake
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
16/33
CONDENSER DISCHARGE PIPES
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
17/33
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
18/33
STORMWATER DISCHARGE PIPES
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
19/33
COOLING WEIRS, PLAN VIEW
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
20/33
EAST COOLING WEIR
Plan
Section
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
21/33
Young men posing (for scale) in East Cooling Weir
C
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
22/33
Cooling Weir Dimensions:- East Weir
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
23/33
Cooling Weir Discharge Pipes
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
24/33
COOLING WEIR DISCHARGE PIPE, 60 DIA.
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
25/33
Turbine Infrastructure Storage Capacities
West cooling weir (16L x 15W x 28H) 55,000 gal.East cooling weir (same as west weir) 47,000 gal.West weir discharge pipe (60 dia.) 28,600 gal.East weir discharge pipe (60 dia.) 14,100 gal.Weir connector pipe (60 dia.) 12,600 gal.Condenser discharge pipe (54 dia.) . 15,600 gal.
TOTAL STORAGE CAPACITY: 172,900 gal.
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
26/33
ROOF ELEMENTS OF TURBINE BUILDING
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
27/33
CATCHMENT AREA CALCULATIONS
Turbine Hall 45,000 sq. ft. Office/parking (2 floors 28,000 sq. ft. Hotel/Condo
.
26,000 sq. ft.Total roof area 99,000 sq. ft.
Plaza Hardscape . 45,000 sq. ft. Total Catchment Area 144,000 sq. ft.
Plantings, streets, parking . 65,000 sq. ft.
Total Developed Area 209,000 sq. ft.
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
28/33
(assuming 160,000 gals. min. storage capacity)
Total Annual Irrigation Demand: 1,322,000 gal.
Turbine Roof rainfall collected (75% efficy): 694,000 gal.Office roof rainfall collected (75% efficy): 432,000 gal.Municipal water supplementation: 196,000 gal.
Percentage of demand met by RWH: 69%
Annual Rainwater Yield AnalysisTurbine building & Office building
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
29/33
STORM OVERFLOW AND WATER QUALITY BMP
Prince GeorgesCounty, MD, n.d.
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
30/33
BIORETENTION SWALE FOR WATER QUALITY BMP
y, ,
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
31/33
-- (assuming capture 1.2 inches of first-flushrunoff for 75% impervious cover development)
Hotel/Condo 26,000 sq. ft.Plaza Hardscape 45,000 sq. ft.
Total Catchment Area 71,000 sq. ft.
Total storm water detention volume: 7,100 cu. ft.or 53,000 gal.
Runoff collected (70% efficiency): 37,000 gal.
Storm Runoff Analysis forStorm Runoff Analysis for
Turbine and Office BuildingsTurbine and Office Buildings
andand HardscapeHardscape SurfacesSurfaces
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
32/33
TBG: Perspective
-
8/9/2019 Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Reuse
33/33