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Managing Stormwater in Houston's Bayou Park

October 30, 2015

Millis Development & Construction Inc. completed construction of the 160-acre, 2.3-mile-long Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston in October. The $58-million, landscaped flood-control project, master-planned and designed by the Houston office of landscape architect-urban planner SWA, is part of a bigger Buffalo Bayou remediation project, which is transforming a polluted stormwater channel and its surroundings from an urban eyesore into public space. Properly built, storm channels can be parks for most of the year, says SWA.

Nadine M. Post, ENR's former editor-at-large for buildings, is an award-winning journalist with 45 years of experience covering trends, issues, innovations, controversies and challenging projects. Post has written about many industry giants, including 10 ENR Award of Excellence winners. And she has covered disasters, failures and attacks, including the 1993 bombing and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center. Project stories include the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa; Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall; and Seattle's Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower. In 1985, Post wrote McGraw-Hill's book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for the restoration’s architects—Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.

Managing Stormwater in Houston's Bayou Park

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