GBCI SITES-specific continuing education at the 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture:
Saturday, November 16
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Room 20A
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, GBCI SITES, ISA, FL, NY/HSW
Air quality is one of the latest frontiers for landscape architects to blend placemaking and environmental remediation. To effectively address air quality, design interventions must be appropriately paired with technology and research. This session will provide a playbook for cleaning the atmosphere, with special attention given to California case studies.
Speakers: Kurt Culbertson, FASLA, FAICP, Design Workshop; Melissa Lunden, ACLIMA Inc.; Esther Margulies, ASLA, Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism, USC School of Architecture
Sunday, November 17
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Room 20D
1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, GBCI SITES, FL, NY/HSW
ASLA advocacy of the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act (H.R. 7279), a bill aimed at promoting better stormwater management, helped it become law. This session examines the benefits of green infrastructure design and low impact development, including satisfying regulatory requirements, earning rating systems credits, offering amenities, and designing within water budgets.
Speakers: Neal Shapiro, LEED Green Associate, City of Santa Monica, Office of Sustainability & the Environment; Russell Ackerman, SITES AP, City of Santa Monica
Sunday, November 17
3:30 – 4:45 pm
Room 22
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, GBCI SITES, AICP, CMAA, FL
The shifting focus in China toward more urban redevelopment and improvements to environmental quality over sprawl provides unprecedented opportunities for the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES). Through an overall market analysis and case studies, this session offers various perspectives on how to achieve SITES certification in China projects.
Speakers: Dou Zhang, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP, Sasaki; Lingling Gong, Shanghai EXPO Urban Best Practice Area Business Development Co.,Ltd; Danielle Pieranunzi, SITES AP, Green Business Certification, Inc.
Monday, November 18
8:30 – 10:00 am
Room 29AB
1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, GBCI SITES, CMAA, FL, NY/HSW
Dependency on tropical hardwoods is unsustainable given current rates of use, ecosystem degradation, and slow renewal rates. Fortunately, there are new alternatives that are durable, beautiful, and renewable. In this session learn how to use and work with thermally modified, acetylated, and polymerized woods, fused bamboo lumber, and black locust.
Speakers: Meg Calkins, FASLA, North Carolina State University; Laura Solano, ASLA, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.; Thomas Amoroso, ASLA, Andropogon
Monday, November 18
10:30 – 11:45 am
Room 32AB
1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, GBCI SITES, CMAA, FL
Can we achieve extraordinary design, impact, influence, equity, and sustainability through SITES legislation? How can we do this? Learn from Rhode Island's historic Green Buildings Act, becoming the first state in the nation adopting LEED for Neighborhood Development and the highly strategic SITES guiding frameworks into public law.
Speakers: Kenneth J. Filarski, FAIA, SITES AP; Kevin Burke, ASLA, Atlanta BeltLine Inc.; Michele Adams, LEED AP, Meliora Design
Saturday, November 16
12:30 – 1:30 PM
PPN Live in ASLA EXPO
ASLA EXPO
Saturday November 16 - Sunday, November 17
Booth: 1943
The SITES Rating System is owned and administered by the Green Business Certification Inc., the certification body for the LEED green building program from U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). USGBC staff will be on hand to answer questions about documentation, technical requirements, and strategies to achieve the best performing project possible.
Visit the SITES booth (#1943) to learn how to register your project or apply for the SITES AP exam.