Thursday, February 13th 8:30 - 10:00 am Lighting Design for the Dark-Sky, Yvonne English, ASLA Mitigating the negative effects of excessive lighting in our environment is critical to human health and impacts on other species, energy and water quality. This presentation looks at how landscape architects and lighting designers can alter in the global light pollution crisis, creating a beneficially lit environment. After the course attendees will understand the terms and definitions associated with outdoor lighting and light pollution, as well as light pollution threats: obvious (views, property rights) and less obvious (health, energy, water quality). Attendees will also learn strategies to minimize light pollution without reducing quality or health, safety and welfare. CEU Accreditation: LA CES, LEED

Thursday, February 13th
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Designing Outdoor Rooms, Yvonne English, ASLA
Designing outdoor living areas is creating outdoor spaces, with or without walls, used for a purpose. This seminar will discuss using basic design principles to create outdoor rooms such as kitchens, family rooms, retreats, etc. It will review safety, circulation, sizing, elements, such as seating and lighting, views and connections. Defining the outdoor space using floors, ceilings and walls of various types. Then there will be an overview of designing outdoor kitchens.
CEU Accreditation: LA CES

Friday, February 14th
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Preserved Wood for Sustainable Landscape Design,
Dallin Brooks, Western Wood Preservers Institute
Wood products are renewable and sustainable. Wood products reduce green house gases by storing carbon. Growing forests remove carbon dioxide, store carbon and produce oxygen. And by preserving wood, we can extend the life of the product. Landscape designers prefer wood because it is natural. Wood blends and complements the environment. Participants will learn how to specify landscape projects using the American Wood Protection Association’s Use Category System.

Attendees will learn how to correctly specify preserved wood; how to use Western Wood Preservers Institute’s Best Management Practices for the use of preserved wood in sensitive environments; the many new preservative systems that are now available and the science of how wood is preserved.
CEU Accreditation: LA CES, LEED

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