ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO
Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Lake City
Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2004

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
1:45pm-3:15pm
Salt Palace Convention Center
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B-1
Making the Transition to Running Your Own Firm
Intermediate
Track: Business

Starting a firm is a challenge; structuring it to survive is a formidable task. This session examines the issues involved in getting started—advantages and disadvantages, planning and financial considerations, legal form and insurance considerations, client relations, and contract negotiation—and in staying solvent. For more information, please contact Frank D. Musica, Esq., at frank.d.musica@schinnerer.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of independent practice.
2. Analyze those concerns that should be addressed creating a professional practice.
3. Identify the keys to client relations and ethical practice to allow them to pursue personal and professional goals while managing risks routinely and profitably.

Frank Musica, Esq., risk management attorney, has over 30 years’ experience in the management of design firms and has lectured extensively on behalf of design professional organizations. Since 1990, he has served as a risk management attorney for Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc. providing practice management and educational information to landscape architects and other professional service firms. As head of the risk management publications program for the CNA/Schinnerer professional liability insurance program, Musica writes or edits Schinnerer’s newsletter Guidelines for Improving Practice, Management Advisory briefing sheets, and the risk management information on www.PlanetAEC.com. Charles R. Heuer, FAIA, Esq. Principal, The Heuer Law Group.

B-1a
Whatcha Gonna Do? - Part Three
Introductory
Track: Business

Many apparent ethical lapses are a result of misunderstandings or failures to consider the impacts of one's actions on others or on the environment. In this follow-up to the San Jose and New Orleans sessions, members will become familiar with the committee's activities, developments in professional behavior, and case discussions of ethical dilemmas including issues of moonlighting and issues of credit after you leave a firm, preventative measures, and remedies. Bring comments and discover how to avoid or react to ethical challenges.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire familiarity with ASLA Ethics Committee activities, findings, and resultant effects on members.
2. Learn recent developments in the area of ethics and professional practice behavior in the design professions.
3. Hear case discussions, ask questions, and gain advice about ethical dilemmas, preventative measures, and remedies.

Van L. Cox, FASLA, a former vice president of education for ASLA, is current chair of the Ethics Committee. He is a professor in the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University and has taught the "professional practice" course for over 15 years. Cox has illustrated the popular LAND ethics column, Whatcha Gonna Do? since it's inception. He has practiced professionally for over 30 years, is a member of CELA and CLARB, and has been the landscape architects' representative on the Louisiana licensure commission for the past 20 years. Panelists include the ASLA Ethics Committee members: Glenn A. Acomb, ASLA; Sidney R. Kime, Jr., FASLA, former trustee of ASLA Pennsylvania chapter; Edward J. Olinger, FASLA, former ASLA vice president of public affairs; Marion Pressley, FASLA, current trustee of ASLA Boston Chapter; Carol A. Whipple, FASLA; and Cara Woodson Welch, esq., ASLA's Legal Counsel.

B-2
Mitigation Strategies for Visual Impacts of Energy Development
Intermediate
Track: Cultural

This session will focus on the visual mitigation of natural resource development on cultural and historic public landscapes. Highlights will include the Bureau of Land Management’s approach to the use of public lands in meeting the demands of energy development while preserving the character of the landscape and visitor experiences. Details will include current methods of visual assessment and mitigation on public lands, including 3D GIS analysis and newly developed visual mitigation standards. For more information, please contact John McCarty at john.mccarty@otak.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an understanding of visual issues of resource development on public lands and its impacts on recreational, cultural, and archeological resources.
2. Recognize ways in which the BLM is managing visual impacts of resource development, protecting the integrity of cultural resources, maintaining historic experiences of nationally significant landscapes, and building cooperation between the BLM, the industry, and the public.
3. Determine the skills and technological applications necessary to mitigate visual impacts from natural resource development and preserve a historic and/or cultural experience.

John H. McCarty, senior landscape architect, manages the landscape architecture/environmental-planning group at Otak, Inc.’s Colorado office and is involved in a wide range of environmental/resource-based projects. McCarty graduated from Colorado State University in 1982 with a Bachelors of Science degree in landscape architecture. He was employed with the Colorado Department of Transportation for a ten-year period working on the award winning Interstate-70 Glenwood Canyon Project. He served as the staff landscape architect/environmental planner for the Town of Snowmass Village, CO for a seven-year period before leaving the public sector to join Otak, Inc. in 1999. Panelists include Diane J. Evans, Associate ASLA, environmental designer/planner, Otak, Inc.; Tom Lahti, landscape architect, Bureau of Land Management; Brad Cownover, ASLA, chief landscape architect, Bureau of Land Management; Terry Delbene, archeologist, Bureau of Land Management; and Jonathan D. Fredericks, Associate ASLA, landscape architect, Bureau of Land Management.

B-3
Redesigning Small Parks: Social and Ecological Trends
Intermediate
Track: Design

Landscape architects seek to incorporate more ecologically sensitive features, respond to demographic changes, and save maintenance costs in building and renovating small parks. This session will provide the tools for both understanding the issues and proposing design solutions. Without information that is visually communicated and supported by credible research findings, ecological updates may be poorly received by neighborhood residents and, in some cases, park maintenance staff. For more information, please contact Laura R. Musacchio, PhD, ASLA, at musac003@umn.edu.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend the on-the-ground implications of recent research on both ecological and social aspects of park design.
2. Determine the best materials (user-friendly handouts and visuals) to illustrate innovative design options in citizen engagement.
3. Analyze various scenarios for applying design guidelines to existing small urban parks.

Laura Musacchio, PhD, ASLA, is assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s department of landscape architecture and a research scientist with the National Science Foundation’s Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project in urban ecology. Frank Fitzgerald, ASLA, research fellow, University of Minnesota's Metropolitan Design Center.

B-4
Planning for Sustainability on a Large Scale: Using Community Viz on St. George's 10,000-Acre South Block
Introductory
Track: LandTech

A collaborative planning process and Community Viz were instrumental in establishing an innovative, sustainable direction for the development of 10,000 acres in the rapidly growing St. George area. Learn how the city and Utah’s School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration collaborated to create and compare alternative development scenarios and reached a consensus to increase density in order to reduce travel, preserve potentially sensitive habitat, and to create a more sustainable community. See related demonstration session LT-2 on Sunday, 11:10am-12:00pm. For more information, please contact Jeffrey T. Winston, ASLA, at jtwinston@winstonassociates.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify a valuable software tool and collaborative process that leads to consensus building between and local government and state agencies.
2. Recognize public/private uses of land and the balancing needed between sustainability, development, and environmental preservation.

Jeffrey T. Winston, ASLA, landscape architect, Winston Associates, has been a principal of a small landscape architecture firm for over 20 years. His work includes environmental planning, land planning, affordable housing, community design and town plans. He has completed plans for numerous Utah communities, as well as communities and clients throughout the Intermountain West, Russia and Portugal. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics, and a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Robert Nicholson, planning director, City of St. George.

B-5
Mainstreaming Sustainable Development and Best Practices in Resort Planning
Intermediate
Track: Planning

There is a worldwide consensus on the need to achieve sustainable development and to use best practices in designing and managing resort planning projects. This session will focus on clarifying these two concepts and highlighting the speaker’s experience while preparing the Best Practices Sourcebook to Achieve Sustainable Landscape Architecture in Tourism Development Along the Red Sea Coast. For more information, please contact Safei Hamed, PhD, ASLA, at safei.hamed@ttu.edu.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate the concept of “sustainable development,” its application to landscape architecture, and the strategies and actions required for attaining that policy.
2. Determine the new interest in “best practices,” its value and use as a design tool, and its process and role in the landscape architecture of resort areas.
3. Develop the skills necessary to apply best practices knowledge to resort projects and the four development phases: planning, design, construction, and operation.

Safei E. Hamed, PhD, ASLA, is assistant professor at Texas Tech University. Hamed is an international consultant of landscape architecture and environmental planning. He has served several organizations including: Agency for International Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Smithsonian Institute, Fish and Wildlife Service, the State Department, Arab Development Institute; Libya, Ministry of Tourism; Egypt, and Council of Environmental Affairs; Yemen. From 1994 to 1997, he worked as an environmental specialist for the World Bank in Washington, DC. He holds degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, and a PhD in environmental planning.

B-6
The Changing Landscape of Federal Land Management
Introductory
Track: Policy

The federal government manages 655 million acres—29 percent of the nearly 2.3 billion acres of land in the United States. Four agencies manage 96 percent of this 655 million acres: the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Forest Service. Receive an introduction to these four agencies and others that employ landscape architects, explore their changing roles, and learn about opportunities for work within each agency. For more information, please contact Amy Schneckenburger, FASLA, at amy_schneckenburger@nps.gov.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize these four agencies and others that employ landscape architects and determine the changing roles of landscape architects in those agencies.
2. Identify the current issues affecting the agencies.
3. Analyze and determine the impacts being placed on the federal public lands and how the agencies are addressing these impacts.
4. Describe the opportunities for work within each agency.

Daniel N. Wenk, ASLA, director, Denver Service Center, National Park Service; Brad Cownover, ASLA, national VRM coordinator, Bureau of Land Management; Ramiro Villalvazo, ASLA, chief landscape architect, US Forest Service; and Charles J. Houghten, Chief, Division of Refuge Planning, US Fish and Wildlife Service.

B-7
Dealing With Drought: Water Conservation in Landscape Design
Intermediate
Track: Resource Management

Utah is the second driest state in the nation and, like many other Western states, is currently in its sixth year of drought. Landscape architects and communities are struggling to maintain healthy and attractive landscapes in the midst of water shortages and rationing. Find out how Salt Lake City and other valley communities are addressing these concerns with governmental policy, public education, example, and demonstration. For more information, please contact Janet L. Striefel, FASLA, at jans@ldi-ut.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine examples of good regionally adapted landscapes that demonstrate sustainable design principles through water conservation.
2. Describe water conservation education programs and materials that are working.
3. Recognize the policy and government side of water conservation and its role.

Janet L. Striefel, FASLA is principal and president of Landmark Design Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her firm has been a leader in promoting regional landscape design through corporate example, exemplary projects, and educational programs. She was the principal designer for Salt Lake Valley’s premier water conservation demonstration garden, as well as many other regionally adapted landscapes that implement sustainable design solutions. Panelists include
Paula Mohadjer, conservation project coordinator, Jordan Valley Water Conservancy; David Rice, demonstration garden manager, Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District; and Stephanie Duer, water conservation coordinator, Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities.

B-8
Growing Nowhere: Designing Urban Soil Systems that work.
Intermediate
Track: Urban

As the focus of urban growth has turned inward toward the redevelopment of urban space, functional and creative landscapes have achieved a heightened position in our consciousness and understanding of what is fundamental to successful landscape architecture. Learn how viable urban soil systems and related cultural practices define the success of future urban landscapes and our understanding of the potential for this aspect of sustainable landscape architecture. For more information, please contact Jeffrey L. Bruce, FASLA, at jbruce@jlbruce.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the functional component aspects of soil systems in the Urban Design theatre.
2. Analyze the misconceptions and realities of the urban landscape environment and the impact of urban factors on design decision-making and sustainability.
3. Identify emerging urban soil design technologies and related responses as the urban design realm continues to evolve.
4. Determine the potential for creativity and innovation in the challenging urban landscape environment.

Jeffrey L. Bruce, FASLA, is principal and owner of Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, North Kansas City, MO. Founded in 1985, JBC participates in a wide variety of projects from urban and environmental landscape architecture to sportsfield design. His accomplishments, commitment and vision are well documented as award-winning projects of his firm have been published over 50 times. He represents several irrigation, construction, and design organizations and committees while furthering the profession of landscape architecture. Robert Bushyhead, ASLA, senior project manager, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company.

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