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Deep Dive Session

SUN-DD-02: Water or Waste? Adaptive Approaches to Water Resources Management

Sunday, October 29, 2023
2:00pm – 4:30pm CT

SOLD OUT
2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, ISA, GBCI SITES AP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person
Plastic and water waste present challenges in designed landscapes. Gain insight from arborists, nursery experts, engineers, and landscape architects piloting innovative irrigation practices that respond to green building standards, client expectations, resource scarcity, and climate change.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn about the history of irrigation practices across cultures and contexts, and the ways in which modern plastic-based systems contribute to water and plastic waste.
  • Explore common products used in the irrigation industry and sustainable alternatives through an interactive break-out session.
  • Transform your practice through dialogues with industry experts who are challenging the status quo of irrigation design and water resource management.
  • Understand how client expectations, green building standards, and project types (institutional, residential, civic, etc.) can influence the ways that water resources tend to be managed.
  • Discover techniques for creating landscapes that require less water, such as the use of temporary irrigation systems and effective water conveyance through soils.
  • Gain insight into how arborists, nursery experts, engineers, and landscape architects provide water to plant material during the contractor-guaranteed establishment period, and how they adapt irrigation protocols and systems post-establishment.