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{{textbox|1= <strong>Collaboration leads to innovation</strong>
"An integrated design process (IDP) involves a holistic approach to high performance building design and construction. It relies upon every member of the project team sharing a vision of sustainability, and working collaboratively to implement sustainability goals. This process enables the team to optimize systems, reduce operating and maintenance costs and minimize the need for incremental capital. IDP has been shown to produce more significant results than investing in capital equipment upgrades at later stages."<ref>Natural Resources Canada. The integrated design process. http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/buildings/eenb/integrated-design-process/4047. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>}}
Ryerson Urban Water have a free modeling tool for neighbourhood scale integrated water resources evaluation. Check it out at http://iwret.ryerson.ca/.
==Introduction==
==Introduction==
Historic approaches to stormwater management – which initially focused on conveyance, followed by flood control and eventually some aspects of water quality – failed to address the full range of water resources related issues associated with stormwater runoff. To adequately deal with changes to the volume, rate and timing of runoff, and to design source, conveyance and end-of-pipe controls capable of satisfying groundwater recharge, [[water quality]], variable environmental flow targets, and other goals, a holistic, integrated approach to stormwater planning and management is required. To achieve this, a robust, interdisciplinary team consisting of infrastructure [[Category:Planning|planners]], water resources [[Engineering_hub|engineers]], geomorphologists, [[Hydrogeology_hub|hydrogeologists]], ecologists, fisheries biologists, [[Landscape_hub|landscape architects]] and others must come together in order to define key targets and resource management goals underpinning the one water approach.
Historic approaches to stormwater management – which initially focused on conveyance, followed by flood control and eventually some aspects of water quality – failed to address the full range of water resources related issues associated with stormwater runoff. To adequately deal with changes to the volume, rate and timing of runoff, and to design source, conveyance and end-of-pipe controls capable of satisfying groundwater recharge, [[water quality]], variable environmental flow targets, and other goals, a holistic, integrated approach to stormwater planning and management is required. To achieve this, a robust, interdisciplinary team consisting of infrastructure [[Category:Planning|planners]], water resources [[Engineering_hub|engineers]], geomorphologists, [[Hydrogeology_hub|hydrogeologists]], ecologists, fisheries biologists, [[Landscape_hub|landscape architects]] and others must come together in order to define key targets and resource management goals underpinning the one water approach.
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