Adapting to new road widths, Orion integrated parking bays and bioretention street trees and worked around the intersection-based raingardens.
Liverpool City Council required a model for bioretention street trees and run-off strategies. Orion initially proposed parking bay dish crossings to provide an inlet into the tree pits. The client requested Orion prepare options to minimise risk of approval delays and minimise an increase in construction costs. In response Orion proposed a gutter-at-kerb to kerb-and-toe transition where tree pits capture run-off, was approved by the Council and adopted as their preferred method before later developing their own.
Orion restructured services according to the project’s pivots. Electrical services now followed the footpath alignment, water services splayed into the road carriageway, and the sewer that was running under the bioretention underwent concrete reinforcement. We integrated a drainage blanket into Kelly Street’s frontage pavement and led co-ordination of the project geotechnical consultant and civil contractor to optimise earthworks ensuring ground conditions were suitable for the roads and construction of future dwellings.
