Standard Design Principles

Question 1

Parking: Most efficient layout

Answer 1

Main design principle for parking lots is to minimize traveling time
90 degree perpendicular spaces, allow maximum amount of spaces and two way traffic.

• Cheapest to build is a surface lot, then a parkinG structure, and then an underground one

Question 2

Parking and Storm Water Management

Answer 2

Drainage design that uses swales filled with wetland vegetations useful in parking lots

Question 3

Storm Water Management

Answer 3

Try to reduce the disruption of natural water causes by
-providing onsite infiltration contaminants such a (car or factory run off chemicals)

• reduce impermeable surface and allow aquifer recharge instead of runoff to waterways

Question 4

Primary Design Principle of Parking facility

Answer 4

-To minimize traveling time
-Width of 8’4”
-Length 18-20 ft long
7’-0 min. overhead clearance on underground parking lots