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60-Minute Education Session

FRI-B08: “Who owns that?” Filling Design Gaps Between Landscape Architects, Architects, and Engineers

Friday, October 27, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, ISA, FL, NY/HSW

This session explores the potential scoping gap where landscape architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, and waterproofing come together. Designing the sub-surface support for site hardscapes and shallow foundations is not trivial, and complications abound at this interface between pavements, foundations, drainage, utilities, soils, and root systems.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Define the challenges posed by varying underlying strata to hardscape support structures.
  • Show how to develop a coordinated design that defines the slab design objectives and provides a consistent basis for decision making.
  • Explain options for designing support slabs over varying underlying materials (buried structures, horticultural soils, structural soils, etc.).
  • Recommend construction practices for coordination of trades and vendors.