ENGINEERED

Stormwater Discharge Control Integrated into Building Structures

Offering Decentralized Stormwater Capture

Aside from facing increased flood risk, municipalities spend tens of millions of dollars in stormwater repairs and improvements. CUPOLEX® gives developers a comparative advantage over the competition when bidding on land by offering the municipality a decentralized stormwater capture system that alleviates the hydrological load on public infrastructure, saving cities millions in costly repairs while extending the lifecycle of existing piping.

CUPOLEX® is a global leader in design and engineering that can cost-effectively integrate our resilience approach into virtually any construction building project. With CUPOLEX®’s engineering support from the design phase to final implementation, real estate developers have the advantage of presenting flood mitigation and stormwater management as a unique ‘municipal benefit’ to planning and zoning departments.

APPLICATIONS

Terraces

Converting building structures into resilient assets means allowing otherwise static interventions to take on more dynamic behavior. Over time and with each new project, large or small, this increases a municipality’s “elasticity,” – its ability to mitigate the impacts of stressors like 1-, 5- 10- and 100-year rain events.

Applications include:

Roofs
Foundations
Structural deck slabs
Parking garages
Terraces
Loading dock pads

Loading Dock Pads

An expanded, segregated network of stormwater assets is advantageous because it can be achieved without ever incurring the high costs of interfering with existing water infrastructure.

In Building Foundations

Offering decentralized stormwater capture becomes a part of the building project, bringing additional benefit to municipalities and planning firms.

Structural Deck

CUPOLEX® supports designers and engineers in understanding that cost-effective resilient mechanisms can be easily integrated into virtually any building project, which increases the performance and attractiveness of the given space.

Customized Design Package

Design Application Analysis – Our firm helps clients determine the Engineered CUPOLEX® system solutions that address specific site needs.

Value Engineering – CUPOLEX® works with value-engineering at the forefront of each project. We provide the best alternatives for every project.

Structural Systems Evaluation – Every project is unique. Our team reviews multiple structural CUPOLEX® systems to determine the best fit for each project.

Preliminary Structural Design – We work with our clients and their designers to determine the performance of a given CUPOLEX® structure under the prescribed loads and/or other effects or requirements while using principles of statics, dynamics and mechanics of materials to determine the size and arrangement of CUPOLEX® structural elements.

Material & Cost Estimating – Our collective experience helps us to provide our clients with material recommendations to reduce costs while maintaining the function of the CUPOLEX® structure.

Engineered Design Drawings – Issued for construction (IFC) and supported with FEA structural calculations, PE stamp, construction documents and specifications.

CUPOLEX® Installation Shop Drawings – With detailed CUPOLEX® formwork installation procedures issued to contractors.

Onsite Support – Construction training, monitoring and inspections for successful construction, and we present the information in a comprehensive report.

Construction Administration – We provide responses to request for information and interpretation of CUPOLEX® design drawings, with completion statements and regulatory compliance reporting where required.