Author(s): Hyun-Suk Shin, Jongbin Park, Jaehyuk Lee, Jaehun Ahn, Soonchul Kwon
Linked Author(s): Jaehun Ahn
Keywords: Green Infrastructure, low impact development, verification, certification, integrated management system
Abstract: Rapid decrease in pervious coverage in urban area and change in rainfall pattern and intensity make urban area more venerable for water disaster. As such, GI & LID (Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development) is widely accepted as a design concept and management practice tool in urban areas over the world. In Korea, there is the GI & LID research center constructed under support of MOLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) that possess extensive real scale testbeds and laboratory test facilities. Among other goals, this research center aims at developing inclusive experimental program and certification process of hydraulic/hydrologic, environmental and structural performance of GI and LID facilities based on its testbed and laboratory facilities. The real scale testbeds are outdoor facilities where the plant and pavement based LID facilities can be instrumented with state of the art measurement systems and mobile rainfall simulators. The performance of prototype facilities can be well investigated under natural and artificial rainfall. This center is also well equipped with laboratory facilities, not only hydraulic/hydrologic and environmental performances but also structural performance of, for example, LID permeable pavements can be evaluated, assessing all-round aspects of GI and LID facilities. Korean GI and LID research center will make positive impacts in development of GI & LID, promoting it as disaster risk reduction measures in Korea and over the world
Year: 2017