|| Picking a Problem | Site Requirements | Design Entry Requirements ||

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Picking a Problem:  Top
Entrants should identify a landscape site on your campus or any public use sites where the site program includes education and thus has an opportunity for LID demonstration and education see update that would benefit from the application of Low Impact Development techniques and should utilize the campus environment to explore opportunities to use any LID techniques. The competition encourages entrants to integrate their submission with any green campus initiatives that a growing number of universities have undertaken that may include LID applications.

Entrants are encouraged to explore designs and plans that take holistic "water-centric" approaches (e.g., grey water reuse, runoff management, building architecture, multifunctional landscaping, alternative pervious/impervious surfaces, amended/fluffed soil for stormwater storage, etc.) that provide for total stormwater management and site integration.

Site Requirements:  Top
Sites included in the submission must be located on a university or college campus. Students may use any university or college campus and may use supporting information (e.g. Cad drawings) obtained from campus agencies to provide base and technical information for the submission. Students may also draw upon campus master plans and polices to support the proposed submission

Design Entry Requirements:  Top
Submission shall be three (3) boards. The intent of Board One is to convey the problem or opportunity at the campus scale. The intent of Board Two is to convey the problems or opportunities of focus area(s)

Board One (1):

• Introduction to problem at the campus scale
• Plan of campus and description of issues/areas related to LID
• Supporting inventory and analysis at campus scale related to LID
• Supporting text and photographs and other methods to convey issues related to
  LID at the campus scale

Board Two (2):

• Introduction to problem of the focus area or focus areas
• Plan of focus area(s) and description of issues/areas related to LID
• Supporting inventory and analysis at focus area scale related to LID
• Supporting text and photographs and other graphic methods to convey issues related to LID at the focus area(s) scale

Board Three (3):

• Proposal of solution(s) for the focus area(s)
• Plan of focus area(s) and description of issues/areas related to LID
• Supporting images, photographs, illustrations, tables, charts, etc., to communicate solution to the problem identified on Board Two (2)
• Supporting text to convey solution(s) toidentified problem

Board Specifications:  Top
Each board shall be 24" x 36" and orientation may be portrait or landscape.

Drawings must be mounted on 24" x 36" foam core or other stiff, lightweight mounting board, to form (3) three 24" x 36" panels.

All text and explanatory information must be in English.

All three boards are to be submitted anonymously with no identifying information. An opaque, sealed envelope shall be attached to the back of each of the boards. The envelopes must contain the competition entry form with the approved registration number.

Entries must also include a minimum of three and a maximum of ten JPEG format electronic image files on a CD of the project submission. These images must be a minimum of 4" x 5" and 150 dpi resolution and will be used as part of the judging.