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Urban water management has to take an integrated approach that prioritizes sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) over gray infrastructure. This book elaborates on the planning and evaluation of pipework drainage systems with a focus on modern-day constraints to deliver a solution that favors sustainability as the overarching goal. The book includes a technical section on design of gray and green infrastructure, considering the total lifecycle costs of drainage systems. Advanced computer simulation techniques are discussed after covering the derivation of both standard and empirical equations for appropriate hydrology and hydraulics. The book provides an incorporation of reliability analyses for both green and gray infrastructure starting with techniques for forecasting flows, hydraulic performance, and lifecycle costs. The work also involves 3-D modeling, geospatial and big data analysis, and how these techniques are applied into city management—particularly beneficial to municipal engineers who are increasingly becoming involved in mapping the underground. Soil mechanics and subsurface drainage systems are analyzed and structural aspects of sewers are included. Finally, soil behavior in shear, retaining wall structures, and tunneling is briefly featured in the book.This book will be of interest to (under)graduate and postgraduate engineering students, drainage engineers, urban planners, architects, water engineers, developers, construction contractors, and municipal engineers.

This book provides a holistic and clear understanding of water supply, sanitary and storm drainage systems for buildings: one-story to skyscrapers, to be built in both the developed and underdeveloped areas. It describes the systems and their entire components - major to minor - and provides exclusive guidelines for the planning, design, installation and maintenance of the systems. The book starts with an introduction to the systems, and ends with a chapter on the presentation of the systems in drawings, others being discussions on all the components, devices, equipment etc., in their respective dedicated chapters – discussing: Pipe, Fittings, Accessories, and Appurtenance; Pumping and Pumping Systems; Water and Hot Water Supply Systems in Building; Appliances and Fixtures; Building Sanitary Drainage; Off-site Sewage Disposal; On-site Sewage Management; Drainage of Storm Water; and Water Supply and Drainage Planning. Written and the figures are drawn by an author of three engineering books of international repute, the last being the 2nd edition of the first one, who served the Public Works Department of Bangladesh - a national building development authority - for more than 35 years. This book is the fallout of practical experience in the building industry, teaching in universities, facilitating training and sharing thoughts in seminars and symposiums on related subject-matters, since the early 90s until today. Figures being drawn by the author using a rarely-used drawing tool help provide additional attraction to the readers. Additionally, the inclusion of worked out examples of designing the major system-components will undoubtedly bring utmost satisfaction to its readers. This book will be helpful for use in a wide range of courses, both undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs, related to building, environmental and civil engineering, architecture, and many more. Building service professionals will benefit greatly. Other traders, administrators in this field, and policy-makers would not be left out of the beneficiaries as well.

Urban water services are building blocks for healthy cities, and they require complex and expensive infrastructure systems. Most of the infrastructure is out of sight and tends to be taken for granted, but an infrastructure financing crisis looms in the United States because the systems are aging and falling behind on maintenance. A road map for pu

Integrated urban water management relies on data allowing us to analyse, understand and predict the behaviour of the individual water cycle components and their interactions. The concomitant monitoring of the complex of urban water system elements makes it possible to grasp the entirety of relations among the various components of the urban water c

According to a report released by the Water Infrastructure Network (WIN), over the next 20 years America's water and wastewater systems will have to invest an additional $20 billion a year to replace aging and failing infrastructure in order to comply with the national environmental and public health priorities in the Clean Water Act and Safe Drink

This broad-based book covers topics in sewage treatment from site investigation through to design, construction and operation. Data and design charts are given in an appendix.