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Managing Stormwater in Houston's Bayou Park

October 30, 2015

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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.

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Nadine M. Post,ENR'seditor-at-large for the design and construction of buildings, is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years of experience covering buildings-related trends, issues, innovations and challenging projects. Post has written about many industry giants, including seven 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. A sampling of Post's project stories includes the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa; Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall; and Seattle’s Experience Music Project, Central Library, Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower. In 1985, Post wrote McGraw-Hill's bookRestoring the Statue of Liberty(1986) for the restoration’s architects—Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.