Credit type: 1.0 LU/HSW

Rooftop decks create valuable living and recreational space for building owners, residents, and clients. Accommodating restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and everything from residential to government buildings, rooftop deck systems offer the design flexibility to create versatile, unique outdoor spaces over any structural surface. This course explores the features, surface materials, and design options for rooftop deck systems and provides an overview of recommended planning and installation guidelines.

Learning Objectives

Incorporating nature into the built environment through biophilic design increases occupant well-being, productivity, and health and is an integral component of an ecologically healthy and sustainable community. Presented here is an overview of biophilic design, its relationship to sustainability, and its positive human, environmental, and economic outcomes. Case studies demonstrate how rooftop deck systems can contribute to biophilic and sustainable design objectives.

Learning Objectives

• Define biophilic design and explain how it is linked to a truly sustainable built environment
• Discuss the principles essential to the effective practice of biophilic design that result in a range of positive physical, mental, behavioral, and environmental outcomes
• Present the economic argument that investments in biophilic design earn high returns in human health and productivity.
• Describe customization options for rooftop decking systems, and reference case studies to illustrate how a unique, usable outdoor space can be installed over any structural surface.
• Use case studies to illustrate how modular rooftop deck systems can contribute to biophilic and sustainable design goals and may help projects earn certification through LEED® v4 BD+C: New Construction, SITES® v2, and the WELL v2 Building Standard™.

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  Mark Fusco

  National Sales Manager

  Bison IP

  Mark Fusco

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  Nate Cormier, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

  Managing Studio Director

  RIOS

  Nate Cormier, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

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  Katherine Harvey, RLA

  Studio Director, Landscape Architecture

  RIOS

  Katherine Harvey, RLA

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Sustainable landscape architecture is essential in today’s outdoor and urban environment. This presentation will explore the hardscaping elements that architects, landscape architects, engineers and other design professionals can use to create multi-layered systems that aid in the design of sustainable spaces that promote health and well-being. While there is no single method of resilient landscape planning & design, this presentation will offer insights into permeable pavers as a method for stormwater management, the impact of pavers with high solar reflectance on heat island effect, and utilizing recycled materials in pavers.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the beneficial environmental impacts of permeable pavers on water quality, groundwater sources and sewer systems.
• Explore permeable paver material choices and how to incorporate them into multi-layered sustainable water management solutions.
• Discuss paving materials with high solar reflectance and their impact on heat island effect when used in outdoor urban environments, whether on-grade or on a roof deck.
• Explain how recycled materials can be used in the manufacturing of concrete pavers and how that impacts the sustainability of a project.

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  Scott Black

  Commercial Design Consultant

  Unilock

  Scott Black

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  Ashley Allard-LaCroix

  Architectural Design Consultant

  Unilock

  Ashley Allard-LaCroix

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WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) is the gold standard for resilient, ecologically-sound, and accessible projects that touch the water's edge. WEDG is a national rating system that has verified projects that include everything from industrial facilities in the Bronx and mixed-use developments in Brooklyn to public park space in North Carolina. From intricate ecosystems to overlapping jurisdictions and land use policies, waterfront design is complex, even for the most seasoned planners, practitioners, and communities, and is becoming even more so with the growing risk of coastal flooding due to sea level rise. With help from hundreds of experts in design, science, community development, engineering, and insurance—the Waterfront Alliance developed WEDG, a science-based voluntary rating system and set of guidelines to address these challenges at the project scale. In this presentation, we’ll share an overview of the WEDG standards and discuss how design firms, agencies, and developers can use them to design exceptional waterfront

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  Joseph Sutkowi

  Waterfront Design Associate Director

  Waterfront Alliance

  Joseph Sutkowi

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Description: Landscape architecture has a labor acknowledgement, recognition, and compensation problem. This integrative session will explore how to start to address and bridge the unspoken divide in landscape architecture between ‘professional’ design workers and the skill, craftsmanship and manual labor of crews who build these projects.

TERREMOTO Partners Story Wiggins and Jenny Jones will present on the studio’s Land and Labor working group. And they will bring in additional speakers tbc to explore topics including compensation and alternative benefits, advocating for workers with clients, credit and representation, and the environmental imperative to better value land care. Attendees will also be encouraged to share their own experiences, questions, practices and challenges on the theme of land and labor.

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  Story Wiggins

  Partner

  Terremoto

  Story Wiggins

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  Jenny Jones

  Partner

  Terremoto

  Jenny Jones

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  Jessie Salazar

  Founder

  Salazar Landscaping (SLA)

  Jessie Salazar

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