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

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C-1
Do You Have the Owner's Manual for Your Firm?
Intermediate
Track: Business

Many landscape architects find that surviving the perils of creating their own professional practice does not mean long-term prosperity or professional achievement. Managing a practice can be frustrating, time-consuming, and financially draining. Or it can be rewarding, allowing a landscape architect to determine the parameters of success including professional, financial, and emotional accomplishment. This session shares the knowledge and professional experience of panelists who have run successful practices and provide advice to landscape architects. For more information, please contact Frank D. Musica, Esq., at frank.d.musica@schinnerer.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire an understanding of the legal and risk management issues in running a professional practice.
2. Identify the value of appropriate contract language on practicing for professional satisfaction and prosperity.
3. Recognize through the sharing of practice experience the many challenges to the survival of a landscape architecture firm.

Frank Musica, Esq., risk management attorney for Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., has over 30 years’ experience in the management of design firms and has lectured extensively on behalf of design professional organizations. In his current position, he provides 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.

C-1a
Professional Awards Jury Discussion
Introductory
Track: Business

Explore the projects receiving top honors in the 2004 ASLA Professional Awards program with the landscape architects who created them. Learn more about the clients, the budgets, the challenges, and the outcomes, as well as what set these projects apart as winners in the jury’s eyes. This panel will be moderated by a member of the 2004 Awards Jury and will feature the lead landscape architects on projects receiving awards in the Design and Analysis and Planning categories. The 2004 Awards will be announced in July and speakers will be announced on the ASLA website in late summer.

C-2
Culture-Sensitive Design: Case Studies of Recent Practice in China
Introductory
Track: Cultural

China’s market for planning and landscape design is rapidly expanding and there are many opportunities for US design professionals. Those who are interested in learning how current practice in China addresses culture-sensitive design and related issues should come to this symposium. Speakers in this panel are from leading design firms and academia in the US and China and have recent practice experience in China.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize China’s business culture in planning and landscape design and realize the key cultural factors or issues likely to occur in communicating with public officials, developers, and local residents in China.
2. Articulate the approaches to culture-sensitive design, encompassing both design and business aspects from current practitioners in China.
3. Describe the issues and challenges lying within the planning and design professions as they conduct international, cross-cultural design businesses.

Ming-Han Li, PhD, is an assistant professor, department of landscape architecture and urban planning, at the Texas A&M University. He is the cofounder of HHL Group, Inc., an academics and practice integrated firm in the United States. As president of OCLAA, Li will moderate the panel session. Panelists include Scott M. Slaney, ASLA, principal, SWA GROUP; Joseph J. Lalli, FASLA, president and managing principal, EDSA; Jacinta McCann, Affiliate ASLA, managing principal, EDAW; Chang-Shan Huang, PhD, associate professor, Texas A&M University; Xiaowei Ma, president, Ager Environmental Design; Chung-Chih Huang, associate professor, Texas A&M University, and founder, HHL Group; and Ming Zhang, PhD, assistant professor, University of Texas, Austin.

C-3
MasterFormat 04, LEED, and Landscape Architecture Specifications
Intermediate
Track: Design

Two current developments that affect landscape architecture specifications are CSI/CSC's MasterFormat 04, which will completely change the numbering and location of specification sections, and the US Green Building Council’s LEED program. The impacts of these programs on specifications for landscape architecture projects will be thoroughly explored.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and understand the impact of MasterFormat 04 on Landscape Architecture Specifications.
2. Determine the potential contributions of landscape architecture to LEED project certification.
3. Identify the value of specification production software.

Edward F. (Ted) Smith, PhD, D.Arch., FAIA, CSI, is the founder and president of ARCOM, the publisher of the MASTERSPEC Master Specification System. Smith is a registered architect with 20 years practice experience and is a professor emeritus of architecture with 28 years teaching. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and oversees the development of ARCOM's specification enhancement software. Paul M. Brosnahan, AIA, CSI, CCS, landscape architecture library coordinator, ARCOM.

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Have We Embraced Design Computing? Roundtable Discussion
Introductory
Track: LandTech

Ideally, design computing software tools would be so logical and easy to use that technique and finesse would be emphasized rather than simply electronic drafting. That software now exists. Are landscape architects using the best new software? If not, why not? What are the barriers to adopting and advancing design computing? A panel of individuals from practice, academia, and the software industry will pose these questions and offer several different perspectives. See related demonstration sessions on Sunday, LT-3 at 12:10pm-1:00pm; LT-4 at 1:10pm-2:00pm; and LT-5 at 2:10pm-3:00pm. For more information, please contact Madis Pihlak, ASLA, at mxp51@psu.edu.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze current academic and practice examples of design computing integration to studio and non-integration.
2. Identify barriers to design computing integration

Madis Pihlak, ASLA, is an associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture at Penn State University. He has lectured widely on environmental simulation and design expression. Large-scale urban design modeling and high-resolution design simulation to improve public decision-making is an ongoing research interest. Other research includes, pedestrian friendly site design, street trees, low water use landscape architecture, the landscape architects role within the urban design process, digital movie-making for designers, managing the digital workflow connecting the GIS and CAD worlds and using Hollywood level animation software packages for the design arts. Panelists include Dan Monaghan, marketing director, Nemetchek; Walter D. Bremer, ASLA, professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Joseph C. Blalock, ASLA, professor, Ball State University; Fred Abler, professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Thomas P. Papandrew, FASLA, parish administrator, Manoa-Punajou Catholic Community; Edward H. Flaherty, ASLA, chief landscape architect, Johnson Engineering, Inc.; Tom Barratt, Tom Barratt, Ltd.; and Russell A. Adsit, FASLA, director, Fisher & Arnold, Inc.

C-5
Daybreak - A New Community's Effort to Define Sustainability
Advanced
Track: Planning

Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining company, is attempting to define sustainability through the creation of Daybreak, a 4,200-acre new community near Salt Lake City. Daybreak is the first of several urban villages to be created on approximately 93,000 acres of land in the Salt Lake Valley. The presentation will describe the methodology, process, and plans for implementing Daybreak’s sustainable development goals and demonstrate how the master landscape plan is the foundation for the sustainable strategy. For more information, please contact Joe A. Porter, FASLA, at jporter@designworkshop.com.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the methodology and process established to achieve development that strives toward sustainability by minimizing impacts and maximizing benefits of new community development.
2. Identify how the design of Daybreak strives for sustainability, how the benefits are to be measured, and the projected results of the new community.
3. Describe the design of the community-wide landscape system as a primary force in the sustaining economic, environmental, and community conditions at Daybreak.

Joe A. Porter, FASLA, is a partner, past president, and past chairman of the board of Design Workshop, Inc., a 130-person firm that provides community planning, urban design, tourism and resort planning, and landscape architecture services. For the past thirty years, he has worked with new community, natural resource, and resort developers to advance the art of community development through design. Porter is a past board member and president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and is an adjunct professor in the graduate program in landscape architecture at the University of Colorado at Denver, CO. Panelists include Terrall V. Budge, ASLA, principal, Design Workshop, Inc.; Zoe Yujnovich, manager business analysis, Kennecott Land; and John Potts, vice president development, Kennecott Land.

C-6
Designing for Accessibility in the Great Outdoors
Intermediate
Track: Policy

How can we as LA's insure that our designs will enable persons of ALL abilities to fully utilize and enjoy the outdoor environment? Recommended guidelines provide new design criteria for access to trails, beaches, picnic, and camping areas. A representative from the US Access Board, an accessibility specialist, and a park landscape architect will provide an overview of how the proposed guidelines can be used to inspire the design process. This session will explain and provide resources to understand the range, breadth, and comprehensiveness of these guidelines. For more information, please contact Donald M. Fox, FASLA, at don_fox@nps.gov.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the newly recommended guidelines for design criteria.
2. Recognize which design techniques are appropriate to meet the guidelines, are esthetically pleasing, and are applicable in a variety of settings.
3. Explain ways in which accessible rails, campgrounds, and picnic areas can be designed to expand the usability for everyone.

Peggy H. Greenwell has been a training coordinator/accessibility specialist with the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board since November l992. Her responsibilities include providing technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines and the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards. She specializes in access issues related to recreation facilities and is coordinating the development of accessibility guidelines for facilities such as sports facilities, amusement parks, play areas, golf facilities, swimming pools, boating and fishing facilities, and outdoor developed areas. Donald M. Fox, FASLA, accessibility compliance coordinator, Pacific West Region, National Park Service.

C-7
Intersections between Landscape/Land Use Planning, Land Reclamation & Restoration Ecology
Introductory
Track: Resource Management

Examine critical historical factors driving land-use change and influencing landscape planning, design, and ecological restoration efforts. Find out about "Alternative Landscape Futures" throughout Utah's Mountainlands Region—including new community assessment—and explore methods for integrating complex landscape drivers via land planning, design, implementation, and management. Learn about interdisciplinary work on one of the largest watershed planning and ecological restoration efforts in the United States. For more information, please contact Lee R. Skabelund, ASLA, at lskab@vt.edu.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a useful framework for working within large-scale landscapes and ecosystems by applying process-oriented principles to specific types of ecological restoration and landscape planning/design project efforts.
2. Articulate the complexity of ecological restoration and other large-scale landscape planning/design projects and the need to engage in effective transdisciplinary collaboration to develop and achieve well-founded project goals and meaningfully work within dynamic landscape systems.
3. Increase the ability to "read" a region's natural and cultural history.
4. Illustrate the value of interdisciplinary dialogue between landscape architects, landscape ecologists, restoration ecologists, land planners/designers, managers, historians, and other professionals and scientists for discussing approaches to landscape planning, ecological restoration, and environmentally sensitive site design.

Lee R. Skabelund, ASLA, taught courses in landscape ecology, land analysis and site planning, landscape/environmental planning and management studios, and environmental impact assessment at Virginia Tech. For over ten years he served as principal investigator for the New River Parkway Environmental Assessment, New River Parkway Land Management System, and New River Parkway Planning & Design Handbook projects. He worked in private practice for several years primary professional concern is to work with other disciplines to bring the knowledge of the land and society to bear on land planning/design issues – to protect ecological processes and community functions and values. Panelists include Ross Peterson, Deep Springs College; Richard E. Toth, ASLA, professor of environment and society, Utah State University; Steve Whisenant, professor of rangeland ecology & management, Texas A&M University; Matt Kondolf, professor of environmental planning and geography, UC Berkeley; George Salvaggio, associate landscape designer, Wetlands Research Associates, Inc.; and Keith Bowers, RLA, ASLA, president, Biohabitats, Inc.

C-8
Threat Management: Beyond CPTED
Intermediate
Track: Urban

Crime prevention. Site security. Risk assessment. Anti-terrorism. Fear reduction. Together these specialized foci transcend “Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design,” representing a client goal—threat management—which landscape architects are increasingly called upon to address. This session will discuss adopting threat management as a new component of the profession’s skill set, elevating and expanding existing threat management skills, applying tools for analyzing and responding to proposals, and integrating threat management into project coordination and the design process. For more information, please contact Sean E. Michael, Ph.D., at o2design@wsu.edu.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Learn the history of threat management in environmental design and the five core components of threat management.
2. Add threat management into your skill set and extend your current threat management skills.
3. Analyze and respond to project proposals from a threat management perspective.
4. Integrate threat management into your project coordination and design process.

Sean E. Michael is associate professor of landscape architecture at Washington State University. Since 1991, his research has focused on CPTED and design for safety in urban and historic landscapes. His work emphasizes the impacts from and deterrence of crime in parks, stressing offender behavior and spatial preferences coupled with multi-disciplinary strategies. He has spoken to local, state, and international audiences on the topic, as well as consulting and publishing widely on the same. In addition, he offers a distance-delivered course entitled, “Designing Out Crime,” is a member of the International CPTED Association, and maintains the web site www.thecptedpage.wsu.edu.

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