Below Ground Drainage Design and Drainage Strategy Reports
Below-ground drainage design involves planning and implementing systems to effectively manage water flow and waste disposal from developments. This includes designing networks of pipes, manholes, and other infrastructure to collect and transport rainwater, wastewater, and sewage away from buildings and paved areas. Proper design is essential to prevent flooding, soil erosion, and water contamination, while ensuring the system can handle expected loads and environmental conditions. The design process considers factors such as local topography, soil type, water table levels, surrounding drainage systems, and relevant legislation.
Some local authorities request the above in the form of a drainage strategy report at planning application stage, or impose planning conditions relating to foul and surface water drainage to ensure that below ground drainage is designed effectively and in accordance with local and nation legislation, including Building regulations part H.
The Benefits of Integrated SuDS and Drainage Design
Quite often we will be asked to provide SuDS Design for a proposed development site in order to discharge a planning condition relating to SuDS and surface water run off, however when the foul water drainage is designed alongside the surface water drainage and SuDS, this allows our engineers to look at key factors at the site and allows for clash analysis to be undertaken to ensure that there are no issues on site during the construction phase. Designing both the foul and surface water networks from a building, as well as the SuDS required, can work out more cost effective for clients as well as ensuring there is space on the site for all of these assets.
As well as providing a drainage strategy report to support your planning application, and detailed below ground drainage design for planning condition discharge and construction. Our experienced team can provide the required designs for sewer diversions and assist with build over applications.
Optimizing Drainage Design with CCTV Surveys
In order to ensure that any design provided by ourselves is cost effective, as well as viable on site, we can also carry out CCTV surveys, in order to ascertain the depth, locations, condition and type of sewerage system within your proposed development site. This allows our engineering team to ascertain the feasibility of using existing on site drainage on brownfield sites, rather than looking at costly connections into main roads.
Get in touch on info@nimbusengineering.co.uk to obtain a quote for a drainage strategy report or below ground drainage design for you next project.
