Description:

The course focuses on complex understanding of urban drainage and its consequences. The students will master urban hydrology processes of surface runoff formation and transport, impacts of urban drainage on surface waters, description of urban drainage performance by monitoring and modelling, innovative technologies and purpose oriented mitigation measures planning and innovation.

Contents:

Urban drainage, integrated approach
Waste waters production
Surface runoff processes
Urban drainage effects on receiving waters
Rainfall monitoring and rainfall data
Discharge monitoring and data
Mitigation strategies and approaches
Sustainable urban drainage systems I
Sustainable urban drainage systems II
Monitoring and modelling
Innovative technologies
Case studies

Seminar contents:

Lectures only

Recommended literature:

David Butler, John Davies, Urban Drainage, Third Edition. 2010 by CRC Press Textbook - 632 Pages ISBN 9780415455251

Keywords:

urban drainage, rainfall-runoff processes, monitoring, climate change

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar