This workshop helps candidates understand and prepare for the Construction Documentation and Administration exam.

Geodesign is a collaborative and innovative planning process that integrates geospatial technologies, design principles, and stakeholder engagement. Greenway trail planning and transportation planning are well-suited to using a geodesign framework. This webinar will review what geodesign is and share examples of how the geodesign framework can be used for greenway trail planning.

This workshop helps candidates understand and prepare for the Planning and Design exam.

This workshop helps candidates understand and prepare for the Inventory, Analysis, and Project Management exam.

This presentation covers how to integrate large urban trees and their associated soil volumes into the densest urban areas. Two research studies compare supported pavement with load bearing modules and structural soil treatments. The researcher, a soil scientist, and a landscape architect present the implications for the profession.

Through habitat destruction and fragmentation, overharvesting, and pollution, humans are directly responsible for the accelerated loss of biodiversity. It's our responsibility to act now. This session provides three diverse yet aligned perspectives focusing on design, policy, and performance-based metrics to address the biodiversity crisis and increase our collective knowledge.

A dedicated team of designers and public agency leadership share the story of Shirley Chisholm State Park, once a landfill but now the largest State Park in New York City. This project overcame steep political, legal, financial, and physical challenges to provide a large-scale park for an underserved neighborhood.

What does it mean to renew landscapes for civic expression in a legacy city? Join public and private practitioners to explore how the trifold transformation of Boston's main civic spaces—the Common, City Hall Plaza, and Copley Square—is reframing conversations, connections, and civic life among Bostonians.

As civic infrastructure, schools play an important role in the health and wellness of our communities, especially in communities of color. This session will dive into the science behind the design of outdoor spaces that can foster wellness, increase equitable access to open space, and improve ecology, learning outcomes, and the community.

Over one million women have left the American workforce since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Professional services are the highest expense and the highest value that a design firm provides, making the investment to retain talent vital. This session examines how to retain caregivers, their experience in the workplace, and how parenthood impacts practice.