Site Design Strategies
Light Pollution Reduction can be achieved by creating a site lighting scheme that does not use excessive lighting and that prevents light from being wasted by traveling beyond the needed area or into the night sky.
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Kenmore Mercy Hospital Outpatient Clinic uses light fixtures that focus light direction downward. This not only assists in reducing light pollution it also minimizes light trespass into neighboring properties.
Preservation of the natural habitat on the site is essential to reducing the building’s impact on local and regional ecosystems. Conscientiously designed natural plantings, lighting, water runoff, reduced use of impervious surface and construction activity impact control assist in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
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The SNI Allegany Administration Building utilized indigenous species to plant a wildflower meadow. Native tree species from the Allegany Plateau were also selected for their significance to the Seneca culture and for their benefits to local fauna.
Minimizing the heat island effect can be achieved by reducing the amount of asphalt or impervious surface on the site, creating a green roof, using white or highly reflective roofing materials and using light colored building materials in site planning. By reducing the amount of solar energy. Heat islands increase summertime energy demand, air conditioning need, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Automotive Performance Center at Morrisville State College incorporated a site design which reduced the heat island effect by minimizing the building footprint and the amount of immpermeable surface.
