Leader: Santiago Casanella, Hunter Industries
This WG focuses on the promotion of smart irrigation solutions in urban areas.
The Goal of the group : To be able to provide a kind of White Book for the Urban Landscape
Examples of themes addressed in this working group are:
- The importance of Green Areas/Landscape in the Cities
- Green Roofs and Living Walls, urban forests.
- New parks.
- The use of devices that reduce water consumption.
- Centralization of irrigation systems.
- Smart Cities.
- Maintenance of green areas.
- Rainwater harvesting.
- Sustainability (Ecolabels, Bream and LEED certifications).
- Best irrigation practices etc.
Join the group : santiago.casanellaroca@hunterindustries.com
Participants :
Xavier Botrel – xbotrel@rainbird.eu
Lorenzo Arcangeli – lorenzo.arcangeli@hunterindustries.com
Ramunas Rederis – ramunas@laistymas.lt
Paul Van Breda – paul@vbs-irrigatie.be
Joao Florido – joao.florido@normagroup.com
Rafael Diaz – rafaeldiaz@riegoturf.com
Damir Čizmek –damir@inaqua.hr
Rob Hoogeveen – certifieddesignsinc@gmail.com
Dorothea Sulzbacher – dorothea.sulzbacher@lite-soil.com
Coralie Tavassoli – coralie.tavassoli@urbasense.fr
Harm de Visser – hdevisser@megagrouptrade.com
Recent findings/accomplishments of the working group
20 apr, 2023
Bruno Molle, the EIA Executive Advisor, presented to the group a summary of the 5 topics developed by the Working Group last year, with the aim of establishing a White Paper. Everyone gave their opinion about the draft summarize send by Bruno.
10 feb, 2022
Each WG2 participant was assigned a topic to develop, with the aim of establishing a kind of white paper. The participants started to work on each topic and sent a first draft of their work.
10 feb, 2022
Marcos Pérez Martinez was one of our guest speakers at the EIA Fall Virtual Irrigation Forum on October 8, 2021. His presentation was titled: : “The best planning for irrigation systems »
30 sep, 2021
It was decided by the group to develop 5 topics of interest, and to and to divide the work among the different participants : The need of green areas in urban environments….
23 jul, 2021
After present the content of the slides was agreed to not focus on water scarcity as it maybe a negative message despite we may not skip it. It was also agreed that each one will think and send some key points that we should develop….
11 jun, 2021
On the first meeting, the participants spoke about how to develop this topic, there were several different ideas and finally it was agreed to focus on 5 key points and try to develop them for the second meeting …