ASLA Southeast Regional Conference 2017
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Topic/Event
8:00 am
9:00 am -10:00 am
Expo Mini-Session 1:
9:00 am
Speaker
Contact
Hours
Location
Registration Opens
Charlotte Convention
Center
Expo Opens
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
So Your Client Wants a Water Feature
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Gerald E. Nelms, M.Ed. ED.S.- , AquaWorx USA
Center Hall C2 & 106
So Your Client Wants a Water Feature, was developed to provide simple guidelines to
Landscape Architectures when they are presented with the request to have a Water Feature
(Architectural Water Fountain, Interactive Water Fountain, Splash Pad) located within one of
their projects. Landscape Architects can provide the water feature designer with more
information concerning what the client wants if they understand what information the designer
will need to complete the design of the fountain.
1) Objectives
2) The learner will determine what environmental factors influence the placement of the
water feature. (indoor/outdoor; temperature; foliage; high traffic area; windy).
3) Learner will distinguish between different types of water features (architectural water
fountain, interactive water feature, splash pad)
4) Learner will recognize the correlation and importance between splash zone and size
of the designed water feature.
5) Learner will discuss the difference in a Recirculating and a potable water system and
the pros and cons of each type of system and the impact on budget each system will
have.
6) Learner will explain the various types of equipment vaults and the impact on the
client's budget.
Gerald E. Nelms, Sales Support & Design Consultant, AquaWorx USA works with Architects,
Landscape Architects and Engineers in the design of Architectural Water Fountains per the
guidelines set forth from the client. Provides information on waterflow, pump requirements,
placement of equipment vaults and/or equipment rooms. Assists in determining the effect that
the client is looking to achieve with the water feature. Work with Landscape Architects to
produce fountain mechanical and electrical drawings that can be used for bidding purposes.
Working with Engineers, we help provide construction documents that can be used for the
installation of the water feature. Determination of lighting effect and water spray effect are
also provided to the Landscape Architect.
Expo Mini-Session 2:
9:30 am
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Mr. Nelms taught high school Biology, Chemistry and Physical Science for ten years. He is
proficient in developing lesson plans, learning objectives and is familiar with various learning
styles based upon his educational background. He understands the learning process of an
adult learner and incorporates that knowledge into working with adults when presenting a
continuing educational course.
Grasses & Sedges from the Ground Cover Up
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Shannon Currey
Center Hall C2 & 106
Grasses and sedges are building blocks in modern planting design. With a focus on
functionality, learn about grasses and sedges for every layer in a landscape and discover
where they do their best work. From low-key groundcover to seasonal superstar, they play
many roles. They lessen the need for maintenance, fertilizer, and pesticides. Their ability to
anchor the soil and help manage storm water gives them a workhorse reputation, but their
aesthetic qualities make them essential for looks as well. Learn which selections work well in
the Southeast and make sense for your needs. Discover how grasses and sedges build better
landscapes.
Objectives
1) Be able to describe how the attributes of grasses and sedges (extensive root systems,
water and nutrient use, soil tolerances, and adaptability) contribute to lower resource
use on sites.
2) Be familiar with two to three specific grasses or sedges that work well in the Southeast
and are appropriate for each general layer of a planting design - lower, middle, and
upper.
3) Add three to four unfamiliar grasses or sedges to one’s planting palette and
understand their potential contributions to a design.
Shannon Currey is Marketing Director for Hoffman Nursery, a wholesale nursery in North
Carolina specializing in ornamental and native grasses. Her work life began as a social
scientist, with a PhD in Social Psychology. In the early 2000s, she changed fields to pursue a
career in horticulture. At North Carolina State University, she trained as a landscape designer
and horticulturist in the Department of Horticultural Science. Shannon began working at
Hoffman Nursery in 2007 and has had a range of responsibilities, coordinating the plant
evaluation program, managing the sales team, and overseeing the marketing program. She
writes articles for national trade publications and gives talks on grasses to design
professionals, industry organizations, and at public gardens.
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10:15 am – 10:45 am
Welcome
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
General Session
1.0
Urban Design in Municipal Government - Design
Thinking as a Service to Enhance Cities
Roberta MK Fox, AIA, ASLA, Assistant Director, Design +
Planning, City of Raleigh; Grant Meacci, RLA, ASLA,
Managing Urban Designer, City of Charlotte Planning
Department of Urban Design Program; Kevin Bacon Jr,
AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Director, Atlanta City Studio;
Moderator: Leslie L. Bartlebaugh, ASLA , Urban Designer,
Raleigh Urban Design Center
Urban design centers housed in municipal governments are a collaborative unit comprised of
urban designers and planners who envision and design solutions that create a better built
environment for cities. These professionals act as both inward and outward facing design
consultants and resources, both to city departments as well as to designers, developers, and
to the general public, engaging and leading all in deliberate, targeted design discussions that
build consensus around innovative solutions that encourage all people to be active in shaping
the physical form of their community. This short presentation followed by a panel discussion
will explore how different urban design professionals housed in municipal government across
North Carolina and Georgia shape policy, innovation, design, and collaboration in their cities.
Objectives
1) Urban design centers housed in municipal government consist of a mix of designers
and planners that act to bridge the gap between planning/policy and the built
environment
2) Urban designers in municipal government act as both inward- and outward-facing
design consultants and resources.
3) Urban design centers in municipalities perpetuate innovative design thinking for
consensus building and policy, process, and project enhancement.
Charlotte Convention
Center Richardson
Ballroom A Zone
Charlotte Convention
Center Richardson
Ballroom A Zone
Roberta Fox is a registered Architect and serves as the Assistant Director of Planning and
Urban Design at the City of Raleigh. Educated with a multi-disciplinary background, Roberta
has over 20 years experience practicing architecture, landscape architecture, and urban
design in both private and public sector projects involving transportation planning, transit
architecture, and transit oriented design. Her professional focus and research seeks to
integrate land use and transit decisions into cohesive places made for people.
Grant Meacci is the managing Urban Designer for the City of Charlotte Planning Department Urban Design Program and is a registered Landscape Architect. With over twenty years of
design and planning experience, he has led a wide variety of transformative projects in both
the public and private sector. His career has focused on designing projects that create vibrant
places, enhance people’s quality of life and foster community.
Kevin Bacon is an experienced urban designer responsible for the day-to-day operation of the
Atlanta City Studio. As both a registered architect and certified planner, he leads collaborative
design projects and guides community engagement programs that are core to the Studio’s
mission. Kevin is a 16-year Atlanta resident who spent the last six years at Perkins+Will prior
to joining the Studio in June 2016.
Leslie Bartlebaugh is an urban designer at the Raleigh Urban Design Center, and has a multidisciplinary background in the natural sciences and landscape architecture. In both the public
and private sectors, Leslie’s work has encompassed the horticulture, construction, and natural
resource industries. She currently focuses on design and design policy of public realm
projects that promote ecology and stormwater management, specifically Green Infrastructure
(GI) and Low Impact Development (LID) design strategies.
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12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch in Expo
Expo Mini-Session 3:
12:00 pm
Augmenting Design Workflows with Information
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Modeling
Eric Gilbey, PLA ASLA
Using case studies of built projects as examples, the presenter will show how site-focused
BIM tools are employed for site planning and detailed project development, that help
landscape professionals make appropriate decisions early in the design process, throughout
design development, and into credit documentation. Case study projects included in this
presentation implemented augmented information modeling workflows resulting in successful
jurisdictional approval, as well as LEED Sustainable Sites (SS) and Water Efficiency (WE)
credits.
Objectives
1) Understand the benefits of augmenting existing design workflows with a
combination of standard information modeling tools available in design
technology, drawing file organization best practices, and parametric, smart
objects to model site data and store information beyond the visual
representation of the project.
2) Recognize how to apply database, reporting, and spreadsheet functions in
worksheets to derive site data from the geometry and smart objects in a
design file, simplifying calculation tasks and producing more accurate and
construction documents used for project bidding.
3) See how using a plant database to store plant data can aid in preparing
worksheets to calculate landscape water use reduction from a calculated
baseline to meet water efficiency project goals or earn green building credits.
4) Become aware of how firms use worksheet calculations to test the effects of
design decisions in real time and verify compliance with green codes,
zoning/landscape ordinances, and LEED/SITES credits.
Expo Mini-Session 4:
12:30 pm
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
Eric Gilbey, PLA ASLA, is a Product Marketing Manager for the landscape industries at
Vectorworks, Inc.. Eric received an AAS degree in landscape contracting and construction and
a BS degree in landscape architecture from the Ohio State University. He recently served on
the ASLA Board of Trustees, representing the Maryland Chapter, and chairs ASLA’s
Professional Practice Committee’s Firm Technology Subcommittee. Eric enjoys helping
landscape architects and designers develop technology-based best practices, including
sustainable site design and site-specific BIM workflows through training, writing, and speaking
for several green industry associations.
Urban Soils and Tree Health in the Built Environment
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Charlotte Convention
David Dechant, Board Certified Master Arborist. LEED AP,
Center Hall C2 & 106
ISA Certified Tree Risk Assessor
Review of the regions geology and soil formation
The evolution of trees
The properties of soil
The properties of urban and disturbed soils
The impact of disturbed soils on tree health
The usage of soil fracturing technology to improve soil structure
The usage of gypsum to remediate soil chemistry
The usage of aged wood chips to revitalize soil biology
The usage of organic supplements to further enhance soil biology
Objectives
1) Toxicity of soils in urban environments and on construction sites
2) What trees need to grow mature
3) Soil remediation techniques
David Dechant is a LEED Accredited Professional, an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist,
and an ISA Certified Tree Risk Assessor with Arborguard Tree Specialists. As Senior
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Expo Mini-Session 5:
1:00 pm
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Consulting Construction Arborist, He works exclusively to prescribe natural solutions that
protect valuable tree, soil, and water resources on construction sites.
Tree conservation on construction projects can present many challenges to the owner, design
team, project arborist and general contractor. On many construction projects, pre-existing soil
compaction and limited general tree maintenance have already contributed to the general
decline of large trees. By working with the design team and civil engineer during the initial
design phase of the project, a health assessment can be made of the trees proposed to be
impacted, site specific tree conservation programs can be implemented and remedial plant
health care services can be provided for unavoidably construction impacted trees which
insures the long-term survivability of the conserved tree resources.
Summer Heat and Maintaining Green Roof Aesthetics
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Discovery Place Green Roof Trials - Charlotte, NC
Center Hall C2 & 106
2006-2017 A Ten Year Research Project Update
Chuck Friedrich, MLA, RLA, ASLA, GRP
The research project took on a whole new direction during one of the most severe summer
droughts in the city’s history. The mission should be to continue with research, to put out the
best product available, find the desired design intent and ignore the uninformed criticism. The
desire for green roof systems to retain additional water while reducing irrigation and reducing
and cleansing runoff in urban areas has made this more challenging. In Germany most green
systems are amicable to climates that have heavy morning mist, dew, or fog usually
associated with cool overnight temperatures; we are not so fortunate during Charlotte
summers. Extensive green roofs also use a narrower range of species limited to herbs,
grasses, mosses, and drought tolerant succulents such as Sedum, a succulent plant known
for its tolerance for extreme conditions. The failure of sedum plants to thrive on green roofs in
the southern US is a result of higher night time temperatures. Temperatures over 70 degrees
F will force C.A.M plants into dormancy during the growing season. On Discovery Place
grasses took hold and then spread in all the sections. Most of the sedums went dormant in the
summer heat while the grasses and non-sedums flourished. It is my opinion without
maintenance, fertilization, and careful irrigation monitoring traditional European extensive
sedum roofs cannot thrive in the deep South. However, with deeper media profiles, better
plant selection including pre-grown mats and trays along with attentive maintenance practices
which include aggressive scheduled weeding, the typical extensive green roofs can be
successful in the deep south. The 2017 study will include weekly maintenance and chemicals
to control grass infiltration. Local governments are beginning to require green roof systems for
some building types to reduce stormwater runoff.
Objectives
1) Green roof design and maintenance.
2) 2. A 10 year research case study showing several environmental factors effecting
green roof health and maintenance.
3) 3. How to utilize a green roof to retain storm water.
Chuck Friedrich is a Horticulturist and Landscape Architect employed with Carolina Stalite
Company in Salisbury, North Carolina. He received his Master of Landscape Architecture
Degree from North Carolina State University (‘85) and his B.S. Degree in Ornamental
Horticulture (‘80) from Delaware Valley University of Science and Agriculture, Doylestown, Pa.
As Director of Horticulture Research and Product development at Stalite, Chuck developed
PermaTill soil conditioner, Stalite Engineered Soils, Green Roof Growing Media, and media for
stormwater and wastewater management. Chuck has lectured at many conferences and
universities and is a Green Roof Accredited Professional, a member of the American Society
of Landscape Architects, A Registered NC Landscape Contractor, and a member of the ASTM
Green Roof Sub-Committee. With Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, Chuck helped develop and
author the Green Roof manuals and the Green Roof Accredited Professional exam and is
Chairperson for the Growing Media Standards Committee
Keynote Address
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Kona Gray, PLA, ASLA
Center Richardson
Ballroom A Zone
Kona A. Gray, PLA, ASLA, Principal of EDSA
Reaching beyond the ordinary is at the heart of every project in which Kona is involved. His
strong sense of integrating creativity and regional resources when designing projects results
not only in functional environments but surroundings that invigorate the imagination. Kona has
experience in many aspects of planning and landscape architecture, ranging from large scale
planning to detailed site design with emphasis on hospitality and campus related projects.He
earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, from the University of Georgia, Boston
Architectural College, Savannah College of Art and Design. Kona oined EDSA in 1997.
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Session A1
“No matter what the project size, scale or scope, we must always challenge the status quo. It
is our responsibility to have the knowledge necessary to offer solutions that positively impact
the environment and continue the advancement of our industry.”
Concurrent Sessions A
Historic 4th Ward Park: Triple Bottom Line Success of
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Green Infrastructure
Center
Kevin W Burke, ASLA - Senior Landscape Architect for
Atlanta BeltLine Inc
In the late 1990s, the City of Atlanta entered into a consent decree with the USEPA regarding
the discharge of combined sewage and storm water into the Chatahoochee River: a navigable
water of the United States. Through the advocacy of a core group of local residents, an
alternative design for separating these two functions was developed and pushed to a
somewhat reluctant acceptance by City officials. This concept resulted in a significantly less
intrusive construction process within the neighborhood than the standard cut & cover
technique. The end product is a 5 acre storm water facility which is part of a larger 17 acre
park that erases the line between green infrastructure within an urban park and the social,
economic, and environmental benefits resulting within a neighborhood. Phase I costs were
$24 million as opposed to the Department of Watershed Management’s estimate of $40
million for the standard way of separating the two functions. With overall construction costs
totaling $50 million, the park has led to direct expenditures of over $500 million of private
development within 1/2 block of the park for an ROI north of 10x. This presentation will delve
into the triple bottom line results from this innovative project that has garnered awards from
the EPA for Sustainable Development, ASEC, and has received ISI gold level certification.
Lastly, the Trust for Public Land identified this park as one national example of the creative
use of Green Infrastructure integrated into a public space.
Additionally, the presentation will demonstrate how this project directly showcases portions of
sections 1, 3, 5, 6, & 8 of Sites v2.
Objectives
1) Understand how Green Infrastructure projects can be drivers of economic
development and social interactions on a personal level
2) 2)Learn how Green Infrastructure projects can achieve triple bottom line success
beyond storm water management
3) 3)Demonstrate that Green Infrastructure and park design can be an integral part of
Sites v2 Section 1/3/5/6/8
Session A2
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Mr. Burke has been the Senior Landscape Architect for Atlanta BeltLine Inc. since early 2009,
and has thirty-five years of professional experience on a range of institutional, roadway,
college and university, residential, and park projects. He oversees most day-to-day design and
construction efforts for all public open spaces of the project. Currently, he is the Construction
Manager for the 3 mile Westside Trail and sits 2nd chair on the 1.5 mile extension of the
widely popular Eastside Trail. He was the lead organizer of ABI’s Annual Organic Land Care
Symposium which sought to inform the public and practitioners about the path towards a more
sustainable way of maintaining our public spaces. Mr. Burke has a Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture degree from Utah State University.
An Assessment of Site Conditions, Maintenance Costs
1.0
Charlotte Convention
and Plant Performance of Extensive Green Roofs in the
Center
Research Triangle Area of Central North Carolina
Julieta Trevino Sherk, PLA, ASLA- Associate Professor at
NC State University Departments of Horticultural Science
and Landscape Architecture.
Green roofs have a range of positive impacts on urban environments. Recent research on
green roofs documents numerous environmental, economic and sociocultural benefits.
Quantifiable environmental and economic benefits are estimated to be approximately
$1.5/SF/year (Peck and Kuhn, 2003). In order to provide these services, plants on green roofs
must be robust; however, there is great variety in plant survival on green roofs. Additionally,
limited research exists on green roof plant survival. Therefore, a critical assessment of
maintenance practices and costs relative to plant performance is necessary. The objective of
this study was to assess plant cover, site conditions, and maintenance practices on ten
extensive green roofs in the Research Triangle Area of North Carolina. A survey was
conducted to assess green roof maintenance professionals’ description of roof performance
and management costs such as: watering, weeding, pruning, fertilizing and safety methods. A
plant evaluation was conducted to document survival and quality of plant material.
Relationships between plant performance, and the environmental and physical site
characteristics as well as maintenance practices were compared and plant species with the
greatest level of performance were identified. Data suggested that maintenance costs can be
reduced and desirable plant cover increased by means of several strategies: wind protection,
using sufficient organic matter in the substrate, using pre-planted modular system, watering
only when necessary, including fall-protection that avoids use of safety harness system and
selecting locally-adapted plant species.
Objectives
1) to discover the critical impact of site conditions on plant performance,
2) to discern effect of maintenance practices and costs on plant performance and
3) to understand some physical criteria and maintenance practices that appear to
improve green roof design and therefore performance.
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Session B1
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Julieta Trevino Sherk, PLA, ASLA is a registered landscape architect and an associate
professor teaching landscape design at the NC State University Departments of Horticultural
Science and Landscape Architecture.
She teaches studios and lecture classes in Hand and Digital Graphics, Grading and Drainage,
Construction Materials and Methods, Plant Identification, and Planting Design.
She has chaired and served as a graduate committee member for Master of Horticultural
Science and Masters of Landscape Architecture students at NCSU and for a Master of
Science at the UNC School of the Environment and Ecology. She has worked with her
graduate students by infusing an evidence based approach and environmental design
research strategies to a variety of landscape studies with local and global impacts. She has
coordinated community engagement by executing a variety of service learning projects with
her students across communities in the state, and internationally with both her graduate and
undergraduate students.
She served on the City of Raleigh Appearance Commission for 6 years and was chair during
2014/15 where she helped to promote community dialogue and foster design excellence that
better contribute to the public realm.
In her practice JTSLA, she is focused on the use of artful land form and plants as design
elements, and believes in the critical role they play in improving and enhancing the
human/natural experience.
Julieta is focused on the use of artful land forms and plants as design elements and believes
in the critical role they play in improving and enhancing the human/natural experience. To this
end, she is interested in opportunities to improve natural, cultural, and historic resources while
incorporating living infrastructure such as bioretention gardens, edible and ornamental
landscapes that provide co-benefits in people’s day to day quality of life.
Concurrent Sessions B
Creation, Restoration, and the Patterns of Change
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Mark H. Hough, FASLA - University Landscape Architect,
Center
Duke University
Historic designed landscapes are constantly evolving places that morph and adapt in concert
with the communities they inhabit. When successful, these places are inevitably prone to
overuse and degradation. Using case study precedents from Central Park and Duke
University, this session will explore the evolution of legacy landscapes and explain how
ongoing management can ensure their continued quality and relevance.
Objectives
1) Learn how patterns of cultural change can trigger both the deterioration and renewal
of public landscapes.
2) Understand the challenges associated with balancing historic preservation goals and
evolving programmatic needs.
3) Learn how landscape architects employed in different fields are leading the charge to
ensure the survival of historic places.
Session B2
Mark H. Hough, FASLA, has been the University Landscape Architect at Duke University
since 2000. He is involved in all aspects of planning, design, historic preservation, and natural
resource management on the Olmsted Brothers-designed campus. Prior to his time at Duke,
he worked at the Central Park Conservancy in New York City. Hough is also a prolific writer
and speaker, addressing issues associated with campuses, urban design, professional
practice, and cultural landscapes. In 2011, he was awarded the Bradford Williams Medal for
excellence in writing about landscape. He became a Fellow of ASLA in 2014.
Kingsley: From Idea to Implementation, a case study in 1.0
Charlotte Convention
Placemaking
Center
Dan Mummey, Clear Springs Development; Sara Nomellini,
AIA LPL Financial; Eric Pohlman, ASLA, LandDesign;
Dave Brown, AIA TVS Architects
Great urban development projects don’t have to be limited to cities. In the case of Kingsley,
located within the Charlotte suburb of Fort Mill, a strong vision by the developer to create a
vibrant town center destination, resulted in the decision for LPL financial to locate their
headquarters next door. Together, these projects have created a dynamic, new, mixed-use
community, where employees, residents and visitors alike can live work and play. The aligned
Vision of the developer and tenant also drove an integrated design process between the
landscape architect and architect that pushed for innovative site solutions and user experience
that helps the entire place feel connected.
Objectives
1) Understand why a developer would engage a design team early and seek tenants
with like vision
2) Learn about trends that are impacting the design of corporate headquarters facilities
3) Learn how an integrated design approach can lead to highly sustainable site and
facility
Dan Mummey, Clear Springs Development has provided planning, design and construction
oversight for a number of Clear Springs projects, including Kingsley, Baxter Village and
Springfield Town Center, and is involved with a number of other Clear Springs real estate
holdings. Throughout his career, he has served a number of capacities in real estate
management, design and construction, giving him a unique perspective and appreciation for
the development process. His education in Landscape Architecture, further reinforces his love
for the land and desire to create meaningful places.
Sara Nomellini, AIA LPL Financial is senior vice president of Corporate Real Estate for LPL
Financial, responsible for the strategic and operational direction of all areas of the Corporate
Real Estate department, including asset management, development, and construction. Ms.
Nomellini has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate realm, including serving as
assistant circuit executive and circuit architect for the federal DC circuit, as well as providing
project management services for CBRE; the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford
University; and the federal General Services Administration.
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Ms. Nomellini earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Architecture
from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a registered architect, a member of the
American Institute of Architects, and she holds the CoreNet Global MCR designation.
David Brown AIA, TVS Design During his 20-year career with TVS, David Brown has become
known as a trusted client advocate, well-versed in designing corporate campuses and build-tosuit headquarters. Dave is energized by making space that satisfies client needs. His easy
going working style helps him to quickly build consensus between project stakeholders so that
problems can be solved, budgets can be met, and project success is realized. Dave relies on
strong 3D, CAD, and digital illustration skills to augment his team building approach. He
understands the importance of timely communication doing whatever it takes to provide clarity
for decision makers and builders.
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Thursday CEU Count
Eric Pohlmann, ASLA LandDesign Eric is an Associate in the Charlotte, NC office with over
eight years of design experience related to urban design, master planning, community
redevelopment, form-based codes, multi-family, office, and commercial development. He
oversees the production of conceptual designs, master plans, vision books, and schematic
and design documents. In an ever-increasing digital profession, his passion for hand drawing
and rendering allows him to tell a unique story through the design process, one that is rooted
in the ‘old ways’ of creative problem solving. Eric believes that the design of places and
spaces can help to create communities that are more socially and environmentally
conscience, and this design ethos is what drives him on every project he works on.
Happy Hour and Appetizer Reception in Expo
5.5
Friday, June 9, 2017
Topic/Event
Speaker
Contact
Hours
Location
7:00 am
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Registration Opens
Expo Opens
Expo Mini-Session 6:
7:00 am
Designing Trees into the Urban Landscape &
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Integrating Stormwater Management
Jeremy Bailey, GreenBlue Urban
Using urban trees as green infrastructure for our cities is arguably the most sustainable
stormwater management solution available. The possibilities that exist to turn stormwater
runoff from a hindrance to an opportunity are limitless. This presentation uses GreenBlue
Urban’s 25 years of field experience, in conjunction with world-renowned researchers such as
the University of Abertay Dundee and E2 Design Labs, to examine the opportunities available
for integrating street tree planting with stormwater management systems for truly sustainable
urban landscapes.
Objectives
1) Understand how integrating stormwater management with urban tree planting using
LID techniques benefits the landscape infrastructure
2) Learn about options for urban streetscape systems in the design of sustainable
landscapes
3) Gain understanding of what is being achieved on a global scale utilizing these designs
through case studies from around the world
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
Jeremy Bailey's experience covers a broad range including sustainable development, green
infrastructure, urban tree planting, and stormwater management. His knowledge offers many
insights into the values of incorporating green infrastructure designs into the urban landscape,
providing many solutions that are being utilized globally. Jeremy collaborates closely with
landscape architects, civil engineers, and urban designers to provide a flow through circle of
all the multiple disciplines encompassing the constructor in the loop and coming directly back
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Expo Mini-Session 7:
7:30 am
8:00 am – 8:15 am
8:15 am – 9:15 am
to benefit the ultimate client – city residents. Jeremy is an avid traveler who has provided
presentations at green infrastructure and sustainable development conferences across the
continent, and has lectured at universities in the United States and Canada.
Collaboration in a BIM Universe
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Charlotte Convention
Jeremiah Farmer, Land F/X
Center Hall C2 & 106
Landscape Architects are being told more and more that they have to move to Revit. What is
Revit? What is BIM? If the reason for doing so is better collaboration, why does it make
collaborating more difficult?
This presentation will help to understand what BIM and Revit are, and what they provide for
Landscape Architecture. It will also show the leading BIM solution for Landscape Architecture,
Land F/X. Lastly it will show how Landscape Architects can best collaborate with all
disciplines, using a variety of software packages.
Objectives
1) What is BIM?
2) How can Landscape Architects best collaborate with Architects using Revit?
3) What BIM software is available for Landscape Architects?
Land F/X CEO and developer Jeremiah Farmer started the company with his landscape
architect father, David, back in the 1990s. David was finding that although AutoCAD was
becoming the industry standard, it wasn’t well adapted to his field. Jeremiah had been writing
code and helping with landscape drawings since childhood. His inborn love of trigonometry
made him a natural to help customize AutoCAD to his father’s needs. What started as one
rudimentary menu evolved into Land F/X, an advanced software program tailored to
landscape and irrigation design. The company officially launched in 2004. A graduate of the
University of California, Santa Cruz, Jeremiah lives in his hometown of San Luis Obispo, CA.
In his spare time, he enjoys tormenting his dog, Bella, and writing science fiction.
Welcome
Charlotte Convention
Center Richardson
Ballroom A Zone
Keynote Address
1.0
Charlotte Convention
The City is a Landscape: Empathy, Design and the
Center Richardson
Space Between Buildings
Ballroom A Zone
David A. Rubin, ASLA, FAAR, Principal - DAVID RUBIN
Land Collective
More people live in urban environments than they have in the history of human habitation. At
the same time, the division between those that have more and those that have less is
increasing exponentially. It is in the connective tissue of cities - the landscape fabric - where
opportunities for creating equity will bring all citizens together in dialogue. In his presentation,
"The City is a Landscape: Empathy, Design, and the Space Between Buildings," David Rubin,
founding Principal of LAND COLLECTIVE, explores the landscape of cities, expressions of
governance, and connective tissue as the great equalizer. Along the way, he presents notions
for raising the collective consciousness, finding opportunities for all in multi-dimensional
landscapes, and why Steven Hawking is actually a wannabe landscape architect.
David A. Rubin is the founding principal of DAVID RUBIN Land Collective, a landscape
architecture and urban design studio committed to practicing with an emphasis on sociallypurposeful design strategies. Educated at Connecticut College and Harvard University, he has
taught and lectured at a number of institutions, including Harvard University’s Graduate
School of Design, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and Southern California
Institute of Architecture. David is the 2011-12 recipient of the Rome Prize in Landscape
Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. His projects have received awards and
honors from the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape
Architects, among others.
David founded DAVID RUBIN Land Collective to devote himself to crafting landscapes which
affect positive social change through empathy-driven design. His current commissions include
a 6-acre public park in downtown Westfield, Indiana, the new Cummins Distribution
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9:15 am – 10:30 am
Expo Mini-Session 8:
9:30 am
Expo Mini-Session 9:
10:00 am
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Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the University of Pennsylvania’s new South Bank
Innovation Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called Pennovation Works. He also recently
completed a vision study with the Mayor of Baltimore for the Bromo Arts & Entertainment
District, which will begin to be implemented in spring of 2016. Rubin’s key built works include:
the creation of a new campus and commons for Eskenazi Health Services Hospital,
Indianapolis; the landscape at the California Memorial Stadium at the University of California
in Berkeley, CA; the 3-star Sustainable Sites certified Canal Park, and the Potomac Park
Levee on the National Mall, both in Washington, D.C.; and the design of Lenfest Plaza at The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. His studio’s work includes diverse
typologies in locations from Los Angeles to Rome, New York City, Washington, D.C., the
Cayman Islands, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, and Philadelphia.
Expo with Snacks
Charlotte Convention
Center Hall C2 & 106
Introducing TifTuf Bermudagrass, The New Standard in .5
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Drought-Tolerant Turfgrasses
Center Hall C2 & 106
Dr. Brian Schwartz, Associate Professor of Turfgrass
Breeding, University of Georgia
TifTuf Bermudagrass was bred in 1992, under serious scientific observation since 2009, then
released for sale in 2015. Brian will present his methodology for determining its drought
tolerance, wear tolerance, and shade tolerance. Field studies by other institutions to determine
TifTuf’s cold tolerance, green color retention into fall, and green up success will also be
presented.
Outline
1) A brief history
2) Top benefits of TifTuf
a. Drought tolerance
b. Wise investment – ROI water data
c. Aesthetics
d. Wear tolerance
e. Early spring green up & color retention into fall
f. Cold tolerance
g. Shade tolerance
3) Real world stories of TifTuf in the landscape
4) Conclusion
Objectives & Benefits to the Audience: Landscape architects will gain insight into the science
employed when developing turfgrasses, particularly the methods used to test TifTuf
Bermudagrass at The University of Georgia, the institution with the most successful, longest
running warm season turfgrass program. The Audience will be presented with the data and
the evidence to the claim that TifTuf is “the new standard in drought tolerance.”
Brian Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Turfgrass Breeding in the Department of Crop &
Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia in Tifton. He earned his B.S. (Plant and
Environmental Soil Sciences) and M.S. (Plant Breeding) degrees at Texas A&M University,
and afterwards studied Turfgrass Breeding at the University of Florida where he received his
Ph.D. in Agronomy. Dr. Schwartz has experience with the breeding and evaluation of
bermudagrass, zoysiagrass, centipedegrass, tall fescue, cotton and corn. Additionally, he has
been the lead or junior author on 39 refereed journal articles, 2 book chapters, and 11 popular
press publications. He has been the lead or co-developer of 9 cultivars and 9 associate
cultivars resulting in the award of 10 patents, and has 6 additional patents under review. Dr.
Schwartz teaches a Plant Breeding Practicum course at the University of Georgia and is a
member of the International Turfgrass Society, the Golf Course Superintendents Association
of America, the United States Golf Association, the Turfgrass Breeder’s Association, the
American Society of Agronomy, and the Crop Science Society of America. Brian is a research
scientist who, in his TifTuf presentation, has turned his applications of the scientific method
into a series of engaging stories.
Using Municipal Roadways to Control Stormwater in
.5
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Urban Environments with Permeable Interlocking
Center Hall C2 & 106
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Session C1
Concrete Pavement
Belgard Representative
In many urban watersheds regulators are adopting green infrastructure solutions for
stormwater management.
Retrofitting impervious pavement with materials designed to infiltrate stormwater is one
obvious solution. The
use of permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PICP) in parking lots and driveways has
grown significantly in the last decade. Dozens of publications have demonstrated the runoff
and pollutant control benefits these
systems provide. However, parking lots and driveways cover relatively small areas within an
urban watershed.
Some municipalities now recognize that municipal roadways and alleyways can be designed
to handle vehicular traffic while also functioning as a stormwater control measure using PICP.
This presentation will describe how PICP systems are designed and constructed. Examples
will illustrate the keys to properly constructing and maintaining these effective stormwater
management systems. An update on the Southeast Atlanta Green Infrastructure Project will
be provided highlighting how Atlanta converted six miles of impervious roadway to PICP to
reduce flooding and combined sewer overflows. The presentation will conclude with lessons
learned related to utilities, roadway slopes, and maintenance.
Learning Objectives:
1) Participants will learn how PICP can be used as a stormwater control measure.
2) Participants will understand proper construction and maintenance methods for PICP.
3) Participants will learn how the City of Atlanta implemented permeable pavement in
municipal
4) roadways to control runoff and mitigate flooding.
5) • Participants will gain insight to design lessons learned related to municipal PICP
retrofit projects.
Concurrent Sessions C
A SITESv2 introduction and overview with Pilot Project
1.0
Charlotte Convention
examples
Center
Hunter Beckham, FASLA - Beckham Consulting; Sarah
Parsons
This session will provide a general introduction of SITESv2 and an overview of the most
current certification program. We will provide several project examples, a bit of history of how
the program was developed and where GBCI is now taking it. It is important for designers,
clients, municipalities and others to consider SITES certification early in the process of project
development. We are hoping for a lively discussion with the group.
Hunter Beckham, FASLA, PLA has more than 20 years of creative experience with special
interest in sustainable design practices his passion is focused on contributing to the vibrant
ecologies of communities. This can be achieved with diligence, respect, communication and
infectious enthusiasm. Over the last 10 years he has come to be a leading expert on the
Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES). With thoughtful decision making and communication he
has managed two Certified SITES pilot projects and has contributed to more than three dozen
LEED Certified projects. Hunter played an integral role in the development of the SITES rating
system representing ASLA leadership since 2005.
Sarah Parsons is an entomologist and sustainable landscape consultant, who specializes in
SITES Certification. Sarah is currently pursuing her PhD at NC State University, where she is
evaluating the effects of sustainable landscape design principles on pest management of
urban trees. She has worked as a consultant for two pilot projects in the Triangle area of North
Carolina, including the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden at Duke Gardens and Raleigh’s
Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve. As a consultant she advises clients and landscape
architects on how best to achieve certification through design, construction, and maintenance
and she manages all the documentation for the certification process. Sarah has also worked
as a SITES reviewer for the national SITES office located in Austin, TX. Sarah has her
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Session C2
Masters of Environmental Management (MEM) from Duke University, and her B.A. in
Environmental Studies from Emory University.
Integrating pedestrian and bicyclist needs in the design 1.0
Charlotte Convention
of North Carolina places
Center
Lisa Riegel, Executive Director, BikeWalk North Carolina
(BWNC); Roger Henderson, AICP, PE; Immediate Past
President, Board of Directors, BWNC
Lisa and Roger are active statewide in North Carolina and Roger has planning responsibilities
for his firm in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Historically, southern states have
been somewhat reluctant in adopting street changes that re-balance the space for motor
vehicles so that the quality of travel for cyclists and pedestrians can be improved. Lisa and
Roger know that is changing and will provide an update on the status of changes in North
Carolina.
Objectives
1) Learn the basics of how to effect policy change toward complete streets.
2) Understand the tradeoffs among travel modes when re-balancing space in the public
realm.
3) Hear about the economic successes of cities, including Charlotte, that have
implemented complete streets.
Lisa Riegel is a hydrogeologist (Duke) who previously served as Executive Director of the NC
Natural Heritage Program at DENR prior to assuming the responsibilities as Executive
Director of BWNC in 2015.
11:45 am – 1:45 pm
1:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Expo Mini-Session
10:
2:00 pm
Roger Henderson is a transportation plangineer with more than 35 years in consulting across
the United States. He is a civil engineer (Purdue) and transportation planner (University of
California Berkeley). He is a lead instructor with the National Complete Streets Coalition and
is the Director of Planning for Ramey Kemp & Associates with offices in Charlotte, Raleigh
and Winston-Salem, NC; Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA.
Awards Luncheon
Charlotte Convention
Vaughn B. Rinner, FASLA – ASLA President
Center Richardson
Ballroom A Zone
Expo
Let Sedges Do the Work
.5
Charlotte Convention
Shannon Currey, Hoffman Nursery
Center Hall C2 & 106
Progressive design approaches employ dense, layered plantings to build plant communities.
Sedges, primarily in the genus Carex, are integral to these designs. Sedges can serve as the
foundations for rain gardens, meadow and prairie plantings, and as ground cover alternatives
to mulch and traditional lawn. The Southeast has a wealth of native Carex that are welladapted to our conditions and support pollinators, birds, and small mammals. In addition,
several introduced species fill important design functions and adapt well to our climate. This
session will explain how sedges differ from true grasses, explore their strengths and
limitations, and discuss the role sedges play in green infrastructure and ecological
landscaping. Participants will hear about some of the sedges currently in production and
others that are in the pipeline. There are numerous Carex options, and there’s one to fit most
applications.
Objectives
1) Understand what distinguishes Carex from grasses and be able to describe their
basic cultural requirements.
2) Be able to describe how sedges provide a literal and figurative foundation for
green infrastructure projects and ecological plantings.
3) In the context of planting design, be able to discuss three Carex species that
would work in a range of conditions and three species that work well in special
circumstances or as good problem-solvers.
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Expo Mini-Session
11:
2:30 pm
Expo Mini-Session
12:
3:00 pm
Shannon Currey is Marketing Director for Hoffman Nursery, a wholesale nursery in North
Carolina specializing in ornamental and native grasses. Her work life began as a social
scientist, with a PhD in Social Psychology. In the early 2000s, she changed fields to pursue a
career in horticulture. At North Carolina State University, she trained as a landscape designer
and horticulturist in the Department of Horticultural Science. Shannon began working at
Hoffman Nursery in 2007 and has had a range of responsibilities—coordinating the plant
evaluation program, managing the sales team, and overseeing the marketing program. She
writes articles for national trade publications and gives talks on grasses to design
professionals, industry organizations, and at public gardens.
Food Waste to Compost: Regional resources in
.5
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sustainability
Center Hall C2 & 106
Jim Davis, Vice President of Business Development, Atlas
Organics
The presentation will include a brief look at the prevalence of food waste concerns in the US,
the approach some companies (including Atlas) are taking to address the issue, how our
business model is specialized to work with municipalities to address the issues, the process of
composting using EASP and the importance of the finished product and it's impact on
landscaping, agriculture and the general environment as a whole.
Objectives 1.Awareness of food waste as a global concern 2.Atlas Organics' organic solution
and processes for adding to sustainability practices through compost production (including a
breakdown of how we make our product) 3. How strategic partnerships are changing the face
of business and opportunities to push forward sustainable solutions in the Southeast and
beyond.
Jim Davis joined Atlas Organics in April of 2016. His experience in recycling was previously
centered around the wood shavings industry. In addition to sourcing recycled shavings for repackaging primarily for the equine market, Jim successfully managed negotiations and volume
pricing contracts with buyers at national retail supply stores valued at over $3MM annually.
Jim also brings a marketing skill set to Atlas Organics to round out his role in developing both
the organic waste collection as well as the compost sales. Jim manages the sales and
education team and at the start of 2017, Atlas hired two new business development
associates to help propel the overall business growth. Jim is a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has two teenage sons and lives in Spartanburg, SC.
Wow! Have you seen LED on an athletic field?
.5
Charlotte Convention
Dina Neeley, Field Lighting Consultant - Musco Sports
Center Hall C2 & 106
Lighting, LLC
LED lighting has arrived and customers are demanding to know whether they can apply this
solution to their lighting project. We will explore how LED came to the marketplace, myths of
LED lighting and what to communicate to your clients concerning efficiency, warranty,
environmental evaluation, capital expenditure and experience.
Objectives
1) How LED has evolved to become the standard of lighting ballfields with LED light
source
2) The realities of applying a LED light source to athletic field lighting
3) To understand the environmental impact of LED on players, spectators and neighbors
Dina is a field lighting consultant with Musco Sports Lighting, LLC. Currently, Dina works on
the implementation of safe lighting standards for the NCHSAA and safe lighting practices for
North Carolina jurisdictions and other national associations. Dina is a member of the
Illuminating Engineering Society Of North America, International Dark Sky and currently
serves on the Board for the NC Recreation and Parks Scholarship Foundation. For the past 7
years Dina has been active on the North Carolina Parks and Recreation LeadHERship
conference committee. Dina Neeley is a 1986 graduate of Kansas State University with a B.S.
degree in Apparel and Textile Marketing. After working as a multi store director for Limited
Brands throughout the Southeast area for 17 years, Dina accepted a position as a Regional
Business Manager for Musco's Southeast USA territory in 2003. Dina led the business and
engineering personnel. In 2005, her role transitioned to field lighting consultant where
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3:45 pm – 4:45 pm
Session D1
Session D2
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responsibilities continued to evolve by working with engineers, municipalities, recreation
professionals and facility owners to design and install lighted athletic facilities in North
Carolina.
Concurrent Sessions D
Designing Super Soils for Urban Landscape Venues
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Barrett L. Kays, Ph.D., FASLA, CPSS - Landis PLLC
Center
Senior Landscape Architect, Senior Soil, Hydrology,
Groundwater, & Environmental Scientist
Most of the metropolitan areas in the southeast are situated on clayey soils. These soils are
often too compacted for important urban landscapes. In order to have great soils on this
urban venues they need super soils that meet all of the important physical, chemical, and
biological attributes. The presentation will involve examining the design of new soil profiles
that have been installed in the Restoration of the Main Fountain Garden at Longwood
Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, New Gardens at North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh,
NC and the similar profiles that will be constructed at Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, at the
National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, and Historic Moore Square Park in Raleigh,
NC.
Objectives
1) Learn the key issues to soil design approach for urban venues and learn the different
basic approaches; when to use or not use structural soils.
2) Learn the key attributes of super soils or ideal soils for trees, shrubs, and grasses for
urban venues. Learn what factors make an ideal super soil.
3) Learn why hydraulic conductivity rate and plant available water volume changes
between sand, loamy sand, and loamy soil mixes. Learn how to store water in the soil
for landscape plants.
4) Learn how to measure the soil biology, available nutrient retention, and soil organic
matter; how does soil biology change between sand, loamy sand, and loam soils.
Barrett L. Kays, Ph.D., FASLA is both a nationally recognized Landscape Architect in ASLA
and a nationally recognized Soil Scientist in Soil Science Society of America. His LATIS book
entitled Designing Planting Soils for Landscape Architectural Projects is recognized as a
definitive short course on designing soils. He has published articles in both LAM and SSSA
periodicals. He currently serves as landscape architecture soils consultant to AECOM,
Andropogon, ASG Architects, Civitas, Gehry Partners, Kimley-Horn, Presidio Trust, Sasaki,
Stewart, and West 8.
Breaking the Suburban Neurosis
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Eric Davis, LEED AP, ASLA, Vice President and Design
Center
Principal Surface 678; Jody Leidolf, Director of PreDevelopment Newland Communities; Colin Greene, AICP,
Director of Urban Design Streetsense
What is the next frontier for suburbs? Master planned communities are often characterized as
suburban development but there are unique trends in green field, master planned
developments as they respond to the desires of who is shopping for homes. Municipalities are
also increasingly mindful of land uses, sustainability, linkages and integration into the existing
fabric, aiding in the development of more complete communities. A case study of Briar
Chapel, mid-way through its life span, in a county experiencing unique growth, will help lead a
discussion in how communities are crafted in a sustainable, mindful way and in partnership
with the local municipality.
Objectives
1) Sustainable Footprint - Water Reuse/Reclamation, Reuse of Materials, Building
Standards, Promotion of Outdoor Activity - Walking paths, trails, bike paths and bike
trails, Promotion of Community
2) Market Analysis - Millennials, Generation X, & Baby Boomers
3) Engagement in Open Space - Regional and Community Partnerships, Schools, Mixed
Uses, Programs and Events including Art, Culture, Music and Food
Mr.Leidol earned his BSLA from Texas A&M University and spent his early career working for
design firms such as HOK, HOH, EDAW and Parker Rodriguez, Inc. Mr. Leidolf has been with
the Newland Real Estate Group, LLC for over 10 years directing the planning and design work
for their communities on the eastern seaboard.
Eric Davis is a Principal at Surface 678 with 20 years of landscape architectural experience.
He is a registered landscape architect and LEED Accredited Professional with experience in
landscape design, master planning, recreational design and community planning.
Eric brings expertise in sound master planning, creative design and a well-managed
construction process with complex multi-disciplinary teams. His park experience ranges from
small neighborhood parks to national landmark parks. These projects have included public
engagement, collaboration with artists, environmental and habitat consultants, and various
government agency coordination. He recently presented two projects at the North Carolina
ASLA Conference in 2016 - Sustainable Sites Case Study and Raleigh Union Station Round
Table.
Session D3
Colin joined Streetsense in July 2015 to help lead the Urban Design + Planning Group,
bringing nearly 25 years of experience in sustainable development, smart growth, and
traditional urbanism. In his role, Colin is helping to expand Streetsense’s comprehensive
design and planning services to its diverse clientele, including international real estate, public
sector, and hospitality clients. Colin’s role at Streetsense will be to design and plan mixed-use
and multi-family projects. A former principal at HOK and leader of its DC Planning Studio,
Colin provided design direction for urban design, and landscape architecture projects including
the Kentlands Commercial District Master Plan, the Downtown Portsmouth Master Plan and
Waterfront Strategy, the H Street NE Revitalization Plan, the Van Ness Vision Framework,
and new communities for several private developers.
Urban Interventions: Using Tactical Urbanism to
1.0
Embassy Suites
Transform Southeast Cities
Uptown
Brittain Storck, ASLA, PLA, Senior Associate - Alta
Planning + Design: Atlanta, GA; Katie Lloyd, ASLA, PLA,
Senior Designer - Alta Planning + Design: Charlotte, NC
There is tremendous social demand for our cities to be vibrant, active, community-driven,
people places. While many southeast cities are beginning to undergo this transformation,
often the process is detained by local politics, public concern, or economic constraints.
Traditional planning and design methods at an urban scale, while necessary, can require
years of study, iteration, and review before change is realized. Tactical urbanism uses
intervention tactics to improve the urban environment in the short term, such as “pop-up”
events or temporary trial projects. Their value is significant in building community support,
studying behavior patterns, and persuading local agencies to invest in permanent
placemaking infrastructure. Besides mainstream media, the idea of tactical urbanism is now
finding its way into design guidelines such as the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide and is
gaining official status in some southeast cities. The session will showcase the tactics used in
several southeastern cities to transform status quo and institute quick changes in the urban
environment.
Objectives
1) Define and understand tactical urbanism, its history, and key elements.
2) Discover the lessons learned from peer cities in the southeast.
3) Explore low budget interventions to public space.
Britt Storck, PLA, Senior Associate, Alta Planning + Design: Atlanta, GA
Britt is a professional landscape architect with a background in natural resource-based
recreation projects and active community design & planning. Britt is Alta's Atlanta office
leader, greenway & trail expert, and NICP CPTED professional. With 12 years in practice, she
has managed projects across the nation and cultivated an instinctual understanding of the
complexities associated with design of public spaces in all landscapes. Britt is working with
several communities to incorporate and lead tactical urbanism strategy, and is part of a
tactical urbanism subcommittee at Alta working to tailor this service area to clients. She
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approaches her work with the belief that each project provides the opportunity for community
to activate, transforming its health, stimulating its economy, and boosting overall quality of life
of its people.
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm
Session E1
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Katie Lloyd, PLA, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design: Charlotte, NC With a background
in both Fine Arts and Landscape Architecture, Katie Lloyd strives to design vibrant public
spaces that promote meaningful outdoor activity. Katie joined Alta Planning + Design in 2014,
bringing a background in public and private sector design. In addition to a passion for
placemaking and active transportation, Katie has devoted much of her artistic and academic
career to agricultural systems and food access, resulting in a graduate thesis focused on
family farming and numerous food-targeted public art projects. She has worked on tactical
urbanism projects in Charlotte, NC, Greenville, SC, and Memphis, TN.
Concurrent Sessions E
Charlotte’s Rail Trail – A Place for Experimentation
1.5
Charlotte Convention
Includes Tour
Center
Alan Goodwin, AICP- Urban Design division of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department; Tina Votaw,
AICP, LEED-AP, PMP - TOD Specialist for CATS
This presentation will be a combination of classroom informational session and walking tour.
The Rail Trail is a nearly two-mile long hardscape pathway that runs parallel to Charlotte’s
light rail system, the LYNX Blue Line. Its original purpose was simply to provide access from
nearby streets to four rapid transit stations. However, since the Blue Line began operating in
late 2007, the Rail Trail has been added onto, studied, enhanced, formalized, codified, deformalized, imagined, envisioned, and transformed. The current Rail Trail little resembles the
utilitarian path of 2007. It is now an important part of Charlotte’s urban fabric, a destination
linear park bisecting South End, one of Charlotte’s hottest neighborhoods.
Thousands of new residents, living in gleaming new apartment buildings and townhomes
within a stone’s throw of the Rail Trail, use it for jogging, cycling, commuting, dog walking,
hanging out, dining, drinking, and shopping. For many of these South Enders, the Rail Trail is
literally at their front door, since zoning laws often require direct connections from adjacent
buildings to the trail for both commercial and residential buildings. Shops, restaurants,
breweries, and nightclubs all connect to the trail, which serves more like a street in some
sections than a trail.
The Rail Trail is a place where urban design concepts are tried and tested, where lessons are
learned and adjustments are made. It’s a platform that supports interesting and unusual public
spaces and “interventions”, where formal regulatory requirements sometimes clash with freeform guerrilla placemaking, spontaneity, and grassroots (and often anonymous) art and
sculpture. We’ll take a look at how this juxtaposition of structure and whimsy has blended to
create a unique experience.
The session begins with a 20-minute classroom presentation discussing the evolution of the
Rail Trail. After a very short walk from the conference venue to the 3rd Street/Convention
Center station, the group will board the LYNX Blue Line and get off at Carson Boulevard, the
first of the four South End stations. We’ll then walk along the Rail Trail approximately one mile
to the East-West Boulevard station. Along the way, we’ll describe many of the delightful,
random, and unexpected surprises that have sprung up along the trail, in addition to talking
about the things local government, property owners, and neighborhood advocates have done
to shape and re-shape the trail. If time allows, the group will re-board the train at East-West for
a short ride to the fourth and final South End station, New Bern. Along the way, the group will
be able to see how newer sections of the Rail Trail are evolving as development is occurring
in LoSo (LOwer SOuth End), after which we will return by train to the 3rd Street/Convention
Center station.
Objectives
1) How public-private partnerships can be used to create public spaces.
2) How government’s willingness to allow for experimentation can lead to unique
placemaking.
3) How a utilitarian path is transformed into a destination linear park, one piece at a time.
Alan Goodwin has served as a Planning Coordinator in the Urban Design division of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department since 2012. His responsibilities include zoning
compliance review of development plans for virtually all transit oriented development in the
Blue Line light rail corridor. He coordinated a recent effort to revise the development standards
for Charlotte’s TOD zoning districts, and is involved in the ongoing process of revising the
Charlotte Zoning Ordinance. He is the urban designer for the Planning Department’s Central
area rezoning and planning team, a district that includes the center city and significant
portions of the South light rail corridor and the City LYNX Gold Line streetcar alignment.
Mr. Goodwin was the project manager for the 2011 Elizabeth Area Plan, a neighborhood that
contains five Gold Line Phase 1 and Phase 2 streetcar stops. He has also contributed urban
design policies for transit station area plans for both the Blue Line South Corridor and the
Northeast Corridor Blue Line Extension, as well as other plans such as the University City
Area Plan and the Prosperity-Hucks Area Plan. Alan also provides design guidance for City
transportation projects, including street and sidewalk improvements, greenways and trails, and
walkability initiatives. Alan is a member of the Charlotte Rail Trail Project Committee, and
delivered a presentation on the Rail Trail at the 2013 Rail~Volution national conference in
Seattle.
Mr. Goodwin joined the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department in 2008. Previously, he
served as Senior Development Planner for the City of Newport, RI. He has also worked in the
fields of community and economic development, urban and park planning, and project
management in Providence, RI, Westerly, RI, and Groton, CT.
Goodwin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Connecticut College, New
London, CT. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Urban
Land Institute.
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Tina Votaw has served as TOD Specialist for CATS since 2005. Her responsibilities include
the planning and implementation of transit station area development policies and projects that
increase ridership and produce revenue. She is the “go-to” person for the real estate
development community and other City departments relative to TOD and real estate
development. Tina has extensive experience with the joint development policies of the Federal
Transit Administration (FTA) and with the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Act (URA).
Tina began working in public transit in 1990 when she joined the Bi-State Development
Agency (Metro) in St. Louis, Missouri. During her tenure of 14 years at Metro, she worked on
48-miles of light rail projects, serving as Vice President of Economic Development from 2002
to 2004 and as Director of Real Estate & Development from 1990 to 2002.
From 1982 to 1990, Tina worked in the private sector, in both real estate development and in
banking/finance.
Tina received her Bachelor’s degree from Maryville University and her Master’s degree (MBA)
from St. Louis University. Tina has been involved in sustainability initiatives for several years
and is both an Accredited Professional in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED AP) and a Green Globes Professional (GGP). Tina is also a certified Project
Management Professional (PMP) and a licensed real estate broker in the State of North
Carolina.
The Lost Art of Hand Sketching in Landscape
1.0
Charlotte Convention
Architecture – Includes Sketch Crawl through Uptown
Center
Parks including Award Winning Romare Bearden Park
Augustine Wong, PLA, ASLA – Principal of CMW Design
Strategies; Kevin Brickman, PLA, ASLA Planner –
Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department
Hand sketching has been the first line of communicating design ideas on paper. From
emotional lines to dancing dots, these perspective images on various graphics media have
served the profession well since the days of Frederick Law Olmsted. Sometimes, the ability to
describe a place through sketching can be the difference between winning or losing a
project. With today’s drawing software such as SketchUp, Photoshop, Freehand, and many
more, is there still a place for the old-fashion hand sketching technique?
Do you feel intimidated when sketching places, people or vehicles? What has geometry got to
do with sketching? Do you want to know the quickest way to sketching a perspective view?
This session will discuss sketching techniques and how to utilize graphics program to
maximize and enhance design ideas. It will also include hands-on drawing with techniques
that can be immediately used in your project.
Objectives
1) Flexibility - to work in different work settings, groups, etc.
2) Versatility - to provide a simple effective tool as first line of engagement.
3) Adaptability - to deliver outcomes in various communication forms.
Session E3
Friday CEU Count
Augustine Wong is a professional landscape architect and urban designer with CMW Design
Strategies, a firm he started in 2010. His work has included transit area planning and design,
land planning, resort master planning, parks and recreation design and downtown plans. He
received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture and Bachelors of Environmental Design
from the University of Minnesota and Masters in Urban Planning and Graduate Certificate
Urban Design from the University of Washington. He has practiced in the United States and
abroad with projects in Southeast Asia, India, Hong Kong, Canada and Dominican
Republic. From 2008-2014 he served on the national Council of Landscape Architectural
Registration Boards Examination Writing Committee and currently serves on the US
Transportation Research Board Landscape and Environmental Design Committee in
Washington DC. He was the President of the NC ASLA and has served on the board at MN
ASLA and WI ASLA. His teaching credentials include adjunct assistant professor at the
University of Minnesota and instructor at the University of Washington and at UNC Charlotte
Extended Academic Program. He has also lectured at universities in Malaysia and presented
at state and national conferences. A visual thinker with a talent of quick hand sketching, he
has the ability to transform and interpret ideas instantly, a major advantage in any settings.
ANOVA will provide sketch pads for the Sketch Crawl.
How a Stripe Impacts Small and Rural Town Growth:
1.0
Charlotte Convention
An Overview of the Town of West Pelzer, SC
Center
The Honorable Blake Sanders, PLA, ASLA - Mayor of West
Pelzer, SC
Once upon a time in the small town of West Pelzer in Upstate South Carolina, there was a
simple request to SCDOT: Build a bike lane along Main Street. SCDOT honored that request,
which led to increased bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, reduced speed and traffic by large
trucks, and more residents and visitors spending time in Downtown. Hear from the Mayor of
West Pelzer, Blake Sanders, and how this
stripe along Main Street led to revitalization, rehabilitation, and rejuvenation.
Objectives
1) Bicycle Tourism in Upstate SC
2) Economic development of rural communities
3) Mayor's role in bicycle infrastructure and advocacy
Blake Sanders, PLA, ASLA is a graduate of Clemson University (Landscape Architecture) and
serves as a Senior Landscape Architect leading Alta's Greenville, South Carolina office. Blake
has 10+ years of professional experience and international travels, focusing on guiding
municipalities from conceptual planning through construction administration. His experience
includes streetscape improvements, corridor planning, bike and greenway planning, as well as
municipal, campus, park and recreation design. He is the Mayor of the Town of West Pelzer,
SC and serves as a member GPATS Study Team, Past President of the Anderson County
Municipal Association, Anderson Complete Streets Committee, SC Mayors Association, and
Imagine Anderson.
Dinner on Your Own
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6.0
Saturday, June 10, 2017
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Topic/Event
7:30 am
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Speaker
Registration Opens
General Session
Panel Discussion:
Implementation & Impacts of Regional Trail Systems A Discussion of the Atlanta Beltline, Cross-Charlotte
Trail, and the Swamp Rabbit Trail
Paul Morris, FASLA – President and CEO Atlanta Beltline;
Michael Kirshman, CPRP Mecklenburg County Park and
Recreation Deputy Director; The Honorable Blake Sanders,
ASLA Mayor of West Pelzer, SC; Moderator Beth Poovey,
ASLA - LandDesign
Contact
Hours
Location
1.0
Embassy Suites
Uptown
Embassy Suites
Uptown
Atlanta Beltline, Cross-Charlotte Trail, and the Swamp Rabbit Trail are major trail systems
that have made tremendous economic, ecological, and social impacts on their respective
cities and towns. Representatives from all of these trail systems have been invited to discuss
the impacts of these trails, the challenges and successes of their implementation, and future
of these projects. The CEO of Atlanta Beltline, Paul Morris, FASLA and former National
ASLA President will join the discussion to represent the Atlanta Beltline. The Deputy Director
of Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, Michael Kirshman, CPRP, will discuss the
Cross-Charlotte Trail project, and representing the Swamp Rabbit Trail will be the Mayor of
West Plezer, SC and Landscape Architect at Alta Planning + Design, Blake Sanders, ASLA.
Paul F. Morris, FASLA and President and CEO of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Paul Morris joined Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) in July, 2013 as President and CEO. ABI is
responsible for the development of the most comprehensive revitalization effort in the history
of Atlanta and among the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment and mobility
projects in the United States. This multi-billion dollar sustainable development initiative is
providing a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit linking mixed use development
and affordable housing by re-using 22-miles of historic railroad corridors circling downtown
and connecting 45 neighborhoods directly to each other.
Michael Kirschman is Deputy Director for the Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation
Department, which serves a population of 1 million people including the City of Charlotte and
6 towns. The department manages and maintains over 21,000 acres and 220 parks, nature
preserves, greenways, and special facilities. Michael is responsible for the department’s
administrative services including budget and strategic planning. He also spearheads the
department master plan and numerous special projects. Previously he spent 7 years
managing the award winning Nature Preserves & Natural Resources Division of the
department. Prior to joining Mecklenburg County in 2006, he worked for park districts in
Illinois and Ohio. He has also consulted for the National Park Service, worked for the
American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency, and started his career nearly 25 years
ago as an educator for a county Soil & Water Conservation District. Michael received his
bachelor’s degree from Westminster College PA and master’s degree from Antioch University
WA. He is a Certified Park & Recreation Professional, a Certified Interpretive Trainer, and
speaks extensively throughout the country on park & recreation issues and topics. A native of
Pittsburgh PA, he is - of course - a staunch Steeler fan and even to this day you may hear
him utter "yinz guys" every once in a while. When he is not camping, taking nature hikes or
enjoying the outdoors with his wife and two daughters, you can likely find him playing
Scrabble, cards, volleyball or softball.
Blake Sanders, PLA, ASLA is a graduate of Clemson University (Landscape Architecture) and
serves as a Senior Landscape Architect leading Alta's Greenville, South Carolina office. Blake
has 10+ years of professional experience and international travels, focusing on guiding
municipalities from conceptual planning through construction administration. His experience
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includes streetscape improvements, corridor planning, bike and greenway planning, as well
as municipal, campus, park and recreation design. He is the Mayor of the Town of West
Pelzer, SC and serves as a member GPATS Study Team, Past President of the Anderson
County Municipal Association, Anderson Complete Streets Committee, SC Mayors
Association, and Imagine Anderson.
9:15 am – 10:15 am
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Beth Poovey, ASLA is the Director of Greenways, Parks and Open Space for LandDesign,
where she leads a studio focused on the creation of public spaces that matter. She has nearly
20 years of experience in greenway, trail, streetscape and park design.
Concurrent Sessions F
Naturalizing Early Childhood: An evolving niche market 1.0
Embassy Suites
in the discipline of landscape architecture
Uptown
Robin C. Moore, DiplArch, MCP, Hon. ASLA - Professor of
Landscape Architecture and Director, The Natural Learning
Initiative
NC State University; Dr. Mary G. Padua, ASLA - Professor
and Founding Chair, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Acting Director, a.LINE.ments: Clemson’s
Public Outreach Program - Clemson University
Approximately 120,000 childcare centers currently exist in the U.S. where 4 million children
are enrolled (Child Care in America, 2012, State Fact Sheets, p. 8). These children receive
most meals, and spend the majority of their waking hours in these year-round facilities.
Children starting fulltime childcare at six weeks old spend as much time (approx. 12,000 hrs.)
in childcare as in their entire primary/secondary school career. In North Carolina, of 38% of
children under five attending 4700 licensed childcare centers, 30% are overweight or obese.
Approximately 27% of South Carolina’s children under 5 years old who are enrolled in nearly
2900 licensed childcare centers are overweight or obese.
A growing area of research demonstrates the beneficial health effects for children engaged
with natural settings in the outdoor environment. Physical activity is higher, fruit and vegetable
gardening can be provided, learning (especially STEM) can be motivated, social and
emotional development can be supported. All this is possible when the outdoor environment
for childcare centers is designed appropriately.
In 2002, Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) conducted a statewide, baseline study underscoring
the poor environmental quality of childcare outdoor environments. Even the highest-ranked
centers lacked natural settings and components to make them fully engaging and comfortable
for children and teachers to support rich outdoor play and learning.
In 2007, the NC Childcare Commission changed the term “playground” to “outdoor learning
environment” (OLE) in the childcare licensing rules driven by a statewide network of NC
professionals, including the NLI, concerned about the poor quality of outdoor spaces at
licensed childcare centers. In 2016, a Task Force initiated by South Carolina’s Department of
Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) began its investigation on ways that the NC model
could be adopted and adapted to SC childcare centers.
In response to the 2007 North Carolina policy shift, NLI launched Preventing Obesity by
Design (POD), a cost-effective, naturalization design approach to improving OLE quality with
support from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. Since then POD
has emerged as a comprehensive, model program integrating design assistance to selfnominated childcare center sites, professional training and development, evaluation research,
and publication of print and online technical assistance resources. POD has been adopted in
the states of Texas, Colorado, and South Carolina.
Considered as ecological restoration sites, a conservative estimate of the amount of land
comprising childcare center outdoor spaces nationally is around 30,000 acres (equivalent to
35 Central Parks), where every day most young children are exposed to ecologically deprived
land and receive a seriously distorted message about the treatment of our natural resources.
However, as childcare is highly regulated in most states, the potential for change is
substantial. Even though some centers in urban areas may have little outdoor space to
naturalize, design intervention provides a tool to stimulate children’s contact with nature.
In 2013, the Early Care and Education Coordinator in the Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity at South Carolina’s DHEC visited NLI/POD demonstration sites in the
NC Research Triangle and in 2014 launched a partnership with NLI to transfer the POD
Model to SC. POD-SC was launched in early 2015, focused on creating five pilot OLE
demonstration sites in the Florence area.
Recognizing the critical role of the POD NC State university base, from the beginning
Clemson University has been involved across several departments, with the Department of
Landscape Architecture now in the lead. In the fall of 2015, an interdisciplinary summit
meeting organized at Clemson formalized the POD-SC strategy with NLI providing training to
Clemson faculty and students together with opportunities for their participation in design
assistance and research at five additional sites in the Spartanburg area.
POD-SC also includes implementation at four Early Head Start sites in Lancaster County and
currently, online design assistance (latest innovation) at seven sites, statewide. Clemson’s
Department of Landscape Architecture (CU-DoLA) and its a.LINE.ments Public Outreach
program has been commissioned by South Carolina’s Department of Health and Education
(DHEC) to work with four childcare facilities; the goal is to transform their outdoor
environments into nature-based designs that draw from the NLI-POD model. In addition,
DHEC’s contract with CU-DoLA includes the policy analysis of the “South Carolina’s 2007
Regulations for Private and Public Child Care Centers”; the intention is to determine ways that
the NLI Outdoor Learning Environment can be incorporated into the SC regulations.
The proposed SE Region ASLA presentation will:
• Briefly summarize the above background
• Review the potential for practitioner contribution in naturalizing early childhood in the
spaces of everyday life
• Introduce research supporting the importance of landscape architecture and design
intervention in early childhood
• Share resources (developed for the SE Region) available to practitioners
• Discuss the importance of regional university links
• Look to the future of this growing area of practice beyond childcare centers in public
gardens, community parks, zoos, museums, and health facilities as evidenced by the
rapid growth of the ASLA PPN on Children’s Outdoor Environments.
Objectives
1) Understand that a growing amount of scientific research supports the importance of
naturalization of early childhood environments as a health promotion strategy;
2) Understand the comprehensive POD model process;
3) Consider the role of professional practice in improving the quality of early childhood
outdoor learning environments through design intervention and potential university
linkages;
4) Recognize the substantial print and online resources available to support professional
engagement in improving the quality of early childhood outdoor learning
environments.
Robin Moore, Honorary ASLA, holds degrees in architecture (London University) and urban
planning (MIT), and for most of his career has worked in the field of landscape architecture as
educator, researcher, and consultant. Moore is an international authority on the design of
children's play and learning environments, user needs research, and participatory public open
space design.
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Mary Archer, ASLA is a Design Assistant at the Natural Learning Initiative. She holds a
bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received
a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Horticultural Science from North Carolina
State University where her research focused on the design of productive green roofs. Prior to
graduate school, she gained a wide range of experience working in medical research,
education, and public gardens.
Rediscovering a Lost landscape: The Construction of a 1.0
Embassy Suites
Piedmont Prairie
Uptown
Stefan Bloodworth, Curator, Blomquist Garden of Native
Plants at Sarah P. Duke Gardens; Annabel Renwick,
Horticulturist, Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at Sarah
P. Duke Gardens
The vanishing landscape of the Southeastern Piedmont prairie is largely unknown to those living among the
scattered remnants of this diverse, imperiled ecosystem. In 2014 staff at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens set out to
design and construct a one-acre simulation of a Piedmont prairie. At this meeting we will present the design and
construction process, inspired by this disappearing ecosystem.
The presentation will also feature plant and wild-life conservation and biodiversity studies within the prairie. We will
review the process of producing more than sixteen-thousand plants representing almost one-hundred prairie species
all grown from seed acquired from locally protected sites. We will address how inspirational predecessors Darrell
Morrison and James Hitchmough helped guide this ecologically based planting design.
Natural changes within the site such as; insect diversity and natural plant species mobility, are being monitored in
collaboration with the Duke University Biology Department. Education programming will take place at the prairie
classroom, a sustainably built open air structure.
In the past few years there has been considerable interest in conserving and restoring native grasslands and prairie
landscapes likely driven by the widespread news coverage of pollinator habitat loss. We see Piedmont prairies as
remarkably diverse natural landscapes. Their appreciation and integration into urban spaces in thoughtful informative
ways could aid the conservation of biodiversity on a larger scale while enhancing the human environment on a local
level.
Objectives
1) conservation
2) design
3) construction
Stefan Bloodworth has been the Curator of the Blomquist Garden of Southeastern Native Plants at the Sarah P.
Duke Gardens for the past fifteen years. He has been a private landscape designer and contractor specializing in
native plant landscapes for twenty years. He is from Durham and attended North Carolina State University where he
received a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature in 1994. He attended both Catholic University in
Quito, Ecuador in the fall of 1991 where he studied Conservation Ecology, and the College of African Wildlife
Management in Mweka, Tanzania in spring of 1993 where he studied Wildlife Conservation. His horticultural interests
include ecosystem based landscape design, gardening for wildlife diversity, and the construction of naturalistic water
features. He lives on his family farm in Rougemont, NC with his wife and two sons.
Annabel Renwick has been the horticulturalist in the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at Sarah P Duke Gardens
since 2012. Annabel is originally from Durham, UK with a diploma in garden design from the English Garden School
at The Chelsea Physic Garden in London. In addition to garden design she has a PhD in botany and had a former
career in plant physiology with Snygenta. Her recent energies have focused on natural and man-made grassland
communities in Wales and on the English/Scottish border.
10:15 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
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Break
Concurrent Sessions G
Teaching and developing a collaborative mindset:
1.0
Embassy Suites
Landscape Architecture studio lessons preparing for
Uptown
the practice
Fernando Magallanes, Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture, PLA, ASLA, CELA
In her 2016 speech to her Board of Trustees, Dr. Beverly Warren, the president of Kent State
University believes that a university of the 21st century emphasize four major traits in
teaching students: creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Of these four
traits, this paper will address collaboration specifically by exploring possible actions to be
taken by the practice, discuss issues in engaging collaboration, and using a case study from
an academic studio to suggest thoughts for its practice in design.
No one group has all the skills and training necessary to create and effectively cover all the
issues involved solving the problems of the environment. For this reason Landscape
Architects must be facile at collaboration and build partnerships around four actions:
1) Develop a collaborative mindset and practice. The business and working
environment in which Landscape Architect's designs exist has mobilized us from a
traditional “isolational” practice to one of “integrative” practice. (Wines, 1999) What is
a collaborative or integrative practice?
2) Deep knowledge integration. The complex environment of business and nature leads
us to integrate skills and specialized areas of “deep knowledge integration” necessary
to create effective solutions. It requires working with specialists like scientists,
engineers, architects, planners, lending institutions, and policymakers. (Hanna,
1999)
3) A Collaborative design process. For collaboration to effectively function, the
landscape architecture practice should have strategies and methods enacting new
steps allowing the collaborative partners access into our traditional design process.
4) Our discipline’s credibility is on the rise for its problem solving capabilities. Advancing
this credibility further will be our ability to engage in meaningful collaborations that
enhance our effectiveness in solving the challenges of the environment.
Objectives
1) The attendee will learn new possibilities for collaborative interaction.
2) The attendee will understand how collaborators must be integrated into the traditional
design process.
3) The attendee will leave the lecture with methods and approaches for undertaking
collaboration
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Session H1:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Professor Fernando Magallanes is a registered landscape architect and associate professor
of landscape architecture at North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh, NC.
As an award-winning professor of teaching, he uses principles discovered from his more than
30 years of researching history and design literature, place-making, design studio teaching,
and consulting experience. He is educating the next generation of landscape architects by
exploring and teaching designers to learn, grow, develop and modulate their own design
processes.
He has consulted in Alaska, Spain, Texas, and North Carolina in a wide range of urban and
rural problem situations including tourism congestion, obsolete railroad properties, economic
revitalization, Native American property development, water treatment plants, and zoological
habitat enclosures for specialized wildlife species. Professor Magallanes consults on master
planning and site scale designing of raw land or disrupted landscapes seeking a balance of
nature and human intervention. Science, art, and business form the basis for engaging
problematic landscapes in claiming/reclaiming, generating/regenerating designed landscapes.
Concurrent Sessions H
Inside the Studio: Cross Collaboration in the Modern
1.0
Embassy Suites
Multi-Disciplinary Workplace
Uptown
Michael Batts, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP; Natalie Carmen,
ASLA; Martha Eberle, ASLA
As landscape architects are increasingly called on to solve spatially- and temporally-complex
problems, the collective skill sets of our design teams should reflect the range of issues we
address in our work. In this session, three designers from Stewart’s main office in Raleigh,
North Carolina will discuss the challenges and rewards of working in an office where
landscape architects team with civil engineers, structural engineers, urban planners, and
bike/ped designers. The group will use case studies to explore communication strategies, the
creation of positive work spaces, and the development of successful design processes which
engage an entire team. Members of the audience will be encouraged to share lessons from
their own experiences.
Objectives
1) Identify the benefits of successful cross collaboration and what landscape architects
can gain from actively engaging with allied professionals;
2) Develop strategies to enhance communication with coworkers and design team
members from other disciplines;
3) Develop strategies for organizing physical workspace and technology to encourage
efficient and effective cross collaboration
As Manager of Landscape Architecture, Michael Batts is in charge of the day-to-day
management of Stewart’s landscape architects and serves as a design leader for the Land
Planning and Design studio. Michael is a landscape architect with experience in a range of
project scopes, from master planning to detailed design. Michael utilizes a strategic design
approach and an awareness of sustainable principles to create spaces and places that
balance the needs of the users, clients, and the environment. (PLA, ASLA, LEED AP)
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Natalie Carmen: Natalie has two years of design experience working in civil engineering plus
two years of experience working in landscape design and landscape architecture. She has
experience in urban design, master planning, K-12, commercial civil and landscape design,
university civil and landscape design, neighborhood civil design, and Parks and Recreation.
She is an expert in stormwater design, including low impact development and has published
her research on innovative stormwater solutions. Her design approach combines technical
expertise with a sensitivity to natural systems. Natalie is dedicated to designing multi-purpose
site amenities that meet engineering and landscape goals. (ASLA)
Session H2:
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Martha Eberle joined Stewart’s Raleigh office as a landscape designer in the summer of
2016. Her design experience ranges from large-scale ecological and infrastructure projects in
the Great Lakes region to smaller-scale urban interventions within the Raleigh community.
Her work in brownfield redevelopment, resilient waterfront design, and urban ecological
restoration is fueled by a desire to create high-functioning, beautiful, and equitable
landscapes. Beyond her private sector experience, Martha also draws from past positions as
an anthropological researcher, horticulturalist, and public servant helping neighborhoods and
small towns to develop meaningful cultural spaces. (ASLA)
Little Sugar Creek Greenway- Bike Tour
1.0
Little Sugar Creek
Katie Lloyd, ASLA, PLA, Senior Designer, Alta Planning +
Greenway
Design: Charlotte, NC; Beth Poovey, ASLA, LandDesign;
Bret Baronak, Project Manager, Carolina Thread Trail
This session will tour the award-winning Little Sugar Creek Greenway. When complete, the
Little Sugar Creek Greenway will feature over 19 miles of trails and land connectors, from
Toby Creek Greenway on North Tryon Street to Cordelia Park just north of Uptown. The
greenway will continue through the urban section and on to the South Carolina state line,
conveniently linking Central Piedmont Community College, Carolina Healthcare System and
the Park Road and Carolina Place shopping areas among many other destinations.
The tour will take bikers from the conference hotel, Embassy Suites Uptown, through the
Uptown portion of the greenway, and potentially down to Park Road Park, depending on
available time. Bret Baronak of the Carolina Thread Trail (the regional trail system of which
Little Sugar Creek is a part), Beth Poovey, ASLA of LandDesign, whom worked on the
Uptown portion of the greenway, and Katie Lloyd, ASLA of Alta Planning + Design and the
NCASLA Charlotte Section Chair will be leading the tour and providing information about the
trail along the way.
Charlotte’s B-Cycle bike share program will be providing 20 bicycles for this tour, however
participants are asked to bring their own bicycle helmets. If you do have a bicycle and are
able to bring it, please do so. This will allow more to participate in the tour.
Katie Lloyd, PLA, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design: Charlotte, NC With a background
in both Fine Arts and Landscape Architecture, Katie Lloyd strives to design vibrant public
spaces that promote meaningful outdoor activity. Katie joined Alta Planning + Design in 2014,
bringing a background in public and private sector design. In addition to a passion for
placemaking and active transportation, Katie has devoted much of her artistic and academic
career to agricultural systems and food access, resulting in a graduate thesis focused on
family farming and numerous food-targeted public art projects. She has worked on tactical
urbanism projects in Charlotte, NC, Greenville, SC, and Memphis, TN.
Beth Poovey, ASLA is the Director of Greenways, Parks and Open Space for LandDesign,
where she leads a studio focused on the creation of public spaces that matter. She has nearly
20 years of experience in greenway, trail, streetscape and park design.
Bret Baronak comes on board the Carolina Thread Trail with a background in public sector
land use and transportation planning. Throughout much of his career he has been able to
work in the speciality area of bicycle and pedestrian planning. From 2006 to 2014, Bret
served as the Bicycle, Greenways, and Pedestrian Coordinator in Palm Beach County, Fl,
where he was responsible for planning, funding and elevating awareness for non-motorized
transportation. In late 2014, he moved to the Charlotte region and held the position of Senior
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Transportation Planner with the Gaston-Cleveland-Lincoln MPO. Bret is a native of western
Pennsylvania and a graduate of Penn State University. He is an avid road and mountain
cyclist, and also enjoys hiking, travel and NASCAR racing.
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Lunch on Own
Safe Travels