BNQ 3019-190 Guidelines
Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect – Parking Lot Development – Design Guide
Concern among residents and municipal authorities over urban heat islands is growing. These heat islands, which chiefly form in urban parking lots, pose a genuine public health risk. Accordingly, the BNQ 3019-190 guidelines suggest a series of practical steps for developing parking lots in ways that minimize the creation of urban heat islands.
Basically, the standard suggests methods to:
- Diminish the surface area used for parking lots (including the number and size of individual parking spaces);
- Re-vegetate parking lots and their surroundings by preserving existing green spaces and creating new areas of greenery;
- Manage storm-water on site by infiltration and by building storm-water catchment zones;
- Use materials with a high solar reflective index (SRI) or highly permeable materials.
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Standards Committee Members
Number of committee members : 14
Yves Baudouin Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Marie-Hélène Binet-Vandal Ville de Montréal - Division de l'urbanisme - Direction de l'aménagement urbain et du patrimoine Guy Boulet Québec Multiplants Danielle Dagenais Université de Montréal, Michel Duchesne Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation Musandji Fuamba Polytechnique Montréal Mélissa Giguère Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) Bruno Godin Société Parc-Auto du Québec (SPAQ) Guy Laliberté Association des paysagistes professionnels du Québec Caroline Larrivée Ouranos Sébastien Lebel Ville de Québec Bob Lussier Aménagement côté jardin (membre APPQ) Marie-Bernard Pasquier Association des architectes paysagistes du Québec Guy Roy Roche ltée, groupe-conseil (Urbanex) - Promotional Document (French only)
- Partner (French only)
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Press review (French only)
- 2014-10-20 First Green Municpal parking in Montréal (arrondissement St-Laurent)
- 2013-06-17 The CRE-Montreal welcomes the MTQ for the gesture
- 2013-02-15 Countering heat islands
- 2013-02-15 An opportunity for Montreal to otherwise adjust its parking lots
- 2013-02-14 The Institut national de santé publique du Québec, with the BNQ, is published a new standard
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