Gulf of Mexico State Park Harvests Rainwater

摘要

Alabama designed a new Interpretive Center at its Gulf State Park, which introduces visitors to the coast's ecosystems. For the educational center, the designers' aim was to meet one of the world's most demanding green building standards: the Living Building Challenge. Less than 20 facilities in the world have achieved full certification. The standard requires true net zero for water, which means no outside water used and no stormwater runoff created. As part of the center's interactive elements, the designers wanted visitors to see how rainwater is collected from the center's rooftops, processed and filtered, and then stored in a water tank. A ZCL | Xerxes fiberglass tank is the centerpiece of this water system, one of the first commercial-scale potable rainwater systems in the United States.