Week 2 Blog Post

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Week 2

               This week we focused on learning more about the site we would be focusing on. We discovered the exact building we’d be working on at the Thomas Jefferson University campus would be the Dorrance H. Hamilton Building. The building is located in Center City, Philadelphia, the very urban part of the city. Because of this, little of the water will be reused for irrigation as there is none.

                 It was also discovered that this specific facility currently operates as a teaching facility of the hospital. The breakdown of its water usage was determined. This data and other facts can be found at https://www.jefferson.edu/content/dam/tju/Hamilton/Hamilton_Building_Fact_Sheet.pdf

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Also, a possible location for the rainwater catchment system was discussed. This location is in front of the hospital.



We also researched which plants to use for the green garden. Initially, we thought of using plants that can hold lots of water as this part of the retrofit is meant to focus on storm water management. But after further research on the plants that will be used, less hydrated heavy plants were chosen to be planted. 
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