Currie Barracks Goes Green
BY TRENT EDWARDS, CALGARY HERALD SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 12:07 PM
Kerri Robinson, a water resources engineer for AMEC Earth & Environmental, sits by a rain garden she helped design for the new
Currie Barracks residential development....
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Currie Barracks Goes Green
BY TRENT EDWARDS, CALGARY HERALD SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 12:07 PM
Kerri Robinson, a water resources engineer for AMEC Earth & Environmental, sits by a rain garden she helped design for the new
Currie Barracks residential development.
Photograph by: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald
Currie Barracks.
The name conjures images of asphalt parade squares and utilitarian buildings -- not
rain gardens and recreation fields engineered to retain stormwater.
But developers of a residential neighbourhood in southwest Calgary have turned part of the former
military base into a model of eco-friendly innovation: the 81-hectare future neighbourhood includes an
award-winning urban stormwater management system created by AMEC Earth & Environmental for the
site s developer, Canada Lands Company Ltd.
The engineering firm s Currie Barracks Brownfi eld Project is the latest of a dozen AMEC initiatives
across North America that use urban stormwater run-off to create greenscape in urban se
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