Project support
ACO offers project specific services designed to make specification, ordering and installation easy.
The services deal with each project’s unique, hydraulic, structural, maintenance and spacial requirements.
The service is fully documented and is offered free of charge and obligation.
Hydraulic design deals with surface runoff as well as the temporary storage of water in storm events. The objective is to reduce the volume, speed, and frequency of surface water runoff. Factors will be site specific and calculations for hydraulic design may be undertaken using locally accepted and approved methods.
CIRIA C697 offers design guidelines. CIRIA stands for Construction Industry Research and Information Association. It is a non-profit body that provides guidance on the planning, design, construction and maintenance of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) to assist with effective implementation within developments.
Structural design considers the load bearing capacity of the ACO StormBrixx® system to ensure it can safely carry the loads it will be subjected to. The initial decision must be made on the type of system required ‑ retention, detention or infiltration and then the design parameters shown below should be considered.
- Soil type
- Vertical loading (including site traffic movement)
- Groundwater
- Depth of cover and total installation depth
- Surface finish
- Horizontal loading
Consideration must be given to the maximum surface deflections allowable for the pavement above the tank. Although excessive deflections may not lead to tank failure, they will cause localised pavement deterioration. ACO can provide structural deflection results for specific live loads. Creep (long term deflections under permanent dead loads) should also be investigated to ensure the durability of the tank.
Structural calculations should be carried out using methodology detailed in CIRIA C680 – “Structural design of modular geocellular drainage tanks”. For further advice please contact ACO Technical Services.
ACO will provide general installation drawings, addressing key requirements.
The frequency of a maintenance procedure for the tank will be determined by the inspection regime. A recommendation is not less than twice-yearly inspections, and during the first year after every significant storm event.
In order to minimise silt build-up, ACO recommends the use of pretreatment systems upstream of the retention/detention system.
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ACO StormBrixx® can also be found on the industry’s Urban Stormwater Improvement Conceptualisation (MUSIC) program. This is the industry’s market leading stormwater management software.
Designing urban development proposals that meet Water Sensitive Urban Design Standards has been made easier with the release of the new version of the urban stormwater software, MUSIC v6.3.
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