Virtual Event | May 8, 2024
Earn 6 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW Credits
Join the conversation on May 8th
This virtual one day conference features national leaders in landscape architecture presenting recent projects and discussions on how the relationship to outdoors spaces has changed in light of the pandemic, the urgencies of climate change, the need for new public spaces, and the drive to create more healthy and engaged connections to our landscapes.
Here are some of the themes we'll explore
- Reinventing the Commons: Public Squares and Amenities Now
- Wilderness at Home: The Future of Regional Parks
- Putting Equity in the Urban Landscape
- The Past is Present is Future: Memorial Design
- Facing the Water: Riverside Reclamation
Speakers
Agenda
9:30 - 9:35 AM
9:35 - 9:45 AM
9:45 - 10:45 AM
10:45 - 11:15 AM
Join landscape architect and climate advocate Pamela Conrad in exploring how to support low-carbon nature-based solutions in sites while supporting equity, biodiversity, and community resilience.
11:15 - 11:25 AM
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 12:30 PM
12:30 - 1:00 PM
1:00 - 1:15 PM
1:15 - 1:45 PM
1:45 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Rooftop decks create valuable living and recreational space for building owners, residents, and clients. Accommodating restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and everything from residential to government buildings, rooftop deck systems offer the design flexibility to create versatile, unique outdoor spaces over any structural surface. This course explores the features, surface materials, and design options for rooftop deck systems and provides an overview of recommended planning and installation guidelines.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key features of deck supports, including their weight bearing capacities, durability, and height and slope adjustability, that enable precise deck leveling and a safe, structurally sound rooftop deck.
- Recall appropriate installation conditions for rooftop decking systems, and provide installation guidelines to facilitate a durable and level deck installation that meets structural, loading, and building code requirements.
- Discuss the benefits of rooftop deck systems and their site furnishings, including the health benefits to building occupants and the environmental attributes of the materials used.
- Describe customization options for rooftop decking systems, and reference case studies to illustrate how a unique, usable outdoor space can be installed over any structural surface.
3:00 - 4:00 PM
We provide designers with current data as it relates to materials and their characteristics, limitations, and the degree to which they are sustainable. We guide designers on how to specify the appropriate materials and recognize how those choices relate to sustaining natural global resources.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding how beauty & aesthetic are overlooked relating to sustainability.
- Understand the primary factors for specifying public furniture
- Learn key differences in materials. Why these materials matter, what makes them unique, and the ability to make better design choices as it relates to their sustainable characteristics.
- Learn key characteristics and further considerations of the lifecycle, recycling, upcycling, and sustainable materials used in public furniture.
4:00 - 5:00 PM
This course lays the foundation of embodied carbon measurement and concrete role in the grand scheme of building material choices. Discover the characteristics that currently contribute and sequester carbon in today’s concrete while exploring some of the latest innovations. Designing for the landscape realm, we have the opportunity to not just have more informed product choices but also understand how products like concrete pavers and walls can contribute to a climate-positive design through the system in which they are designed.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe key gasses that make up our atmosphere.
- Identify the key steps in the process of concrete manufacturing to better understand where the carbon hot spots reside and some of the latest innovations in the marketplace.
- Identify tangible types of Climate-Positive Design, in large- and small-scale planning scenarios as well as systems within those design that help to deliver NetZero.
- Describe the beneficial environmental impacts of permeable pavers on water quality, groundwater sources and sewer systems and their contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gasses.
- List the benefits of real product case studies that delivered tangible results to the community and the environment.
- Identify scenarios in which ICPs and SRWs can be used in place of poured concrete to reduce the embodied carbon value.