Landscape
EVENT THEME
Outdoor Spaces: Landscape Strategies + Technologies
Creating successful outdoor spaces requires the right combination of expertise, tools, structural systems, and programs. This workshop will discuss both material and technical solutions to meet project requirements and exceed clients expectations. Experts will be on hand to lead tutorials on the most recent innovations available to landscape architects. Join experts addressing issues such as durability, comfort, attractiveness, and sustainability in site furnishings and structural decking solutions. Attendees will leave with a greater knowledge to help you create new, vibrant, healthy outdoor spaces.
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10AM - 11AM
Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: BisonIP
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.
11AM - 12PM
Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Vectorworks
Though 3D-modeled landscapes are becoming more common in design workflows, many hesitate to involve these techniques.
A key benefit to incorporating 3D and BIM in your landscape design is analysis. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage the power of solar, terrain, building, and landscape feature modeling to better analyze site conditions, advise clients, and validate design choices.
By integrating 3D with 2D design workflows, there’s less disruption in getting to a better-performing solution.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize how modeled terrains can visualize grade changes and analyze for cut/fill, slope, and surface drainage flow.
- Understand how sun and shade studies can analyze existing conditions and propose landscape solutions to your clients.
- Realize where integrating 3D workflows can be less disruptive to design development and build efficiencies for each subsequent project.
- Learn how 3D objects can provide crucial estimating data for costing and material reports.
Presenters
Eric Gilbey
Product marketing manager – Landscape
12PM - 1PM
Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Tournesol Siteworks
Green facades can contribute to building energy efficiency, durability, aesthetic value, sustainability, and cost effectiveness in the performance of ecological system services. This course examines the considerations required for successful green facade installations and includes discussions on system selection, design, plant selection, maintenance, and client/owner education.
Learning Objectives
- Remote, advocate, and plan for the inclusion of green facades as an integrated component of the building envelope assembly based on sustainability, deliverable benefits, and performance capabilities
- Identify the differences between two- and three-dimensional green facade systems, explaining how they must be anchored to ensure a safe, stable installation
- List and discuss considerations to be addressed in the design, planning, installation, and maintenance phases of a green facade so it meets both the aesthetic and energy-efficiency goals of the project, and
- specify a green facade system, including vines, soils, infrastructure requirements, and maintenance programming, to help mitigate the urban heat island effect, manage stormwater, and improve air quality.
Presenters
Ransom Mayfield
Senior Specifications Advisor
1PM - 2PM
Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Hanover Pavers
In this presentation, we’ll discuss porcelain pavers as a durable and innovative paving option. Characteristics of high-quality porcelain will be presented. We will identify porcelain paver advantages while increasing your knowledge of uses and limitations from applications ranging from on-grade entranceways to elevated plazas. A variety of installation methods will be examined as it pertains to each application type. It is our hope that at the conclusion of this presentation you will have gained a better understanding of porcelain pavers uses and characteristics.
Learning Objectives
- Compare and contrast the advantages of porcelain pavers to other types of materials.
- Explore the considerations for specifying porcelain pavers for a variety of applications.
- Identify installation best practices and considerations for porcelain pavers.
- Explore a variety of size and color options available for product specification.
Presenters
Brent Bevenour
Technical Sales
2PM - 3PM
