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
The precise intersection of public spaces and people lies in public furniture. Each piece, whether a transit shelter, park bench, or plaza table, is designed for people in the public realm, aiming to include every citizen. In this class, we aim to broaden the understanding of inclusivity within this exact intersection. Public furniture is intended to serve everyone, reflecting the grand idea behind inclusivity and emphasizing the importance of considering it for creating better public spaces.
Learning Objectives:
- The first learning objective is to provide a clear definition of inclusivity. There are many derivatives and tangential meanings. We will provide a clear understanding of each of the more popular derivatives. Inclusivity has a history connected to the ADA.
- The second learning objective is understanding why inclusivity matters in the public realm. Also, Inclusivity is about creating best practices for designing places with the intent of serving all citizens. Inclusivity uses diversity as its springboard. Inclusivity elevates safety, health, and the
the welfare of the communities not only in physical and observational ways but also in intangible psychological welcoming ways. - The second learning objective is understanding why inclusivity matters in the public realm. Inclusivity is also about creating best practices for designing places with the intent of serving all citizens. It uses diversity as its springboard. Inclusivity elevates safety, health, and the welfare of the communities not only in physical and observational ways but also in intangible, psychologically welcoming ways.
- The fourth learning objective is to lay out some action steps moving forward. Will you be apart or a part? We will challenge designers to use their design voice to provide access to all the components of public space, with a focus on activation for diversity.
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.