A Phase-by-Phase Approach to Decarbonizing Design - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Recorded On: 10/08/2024

This session focuses on how to approach decarbonization as designers. Landscape architects are skilled at balancing a complex array of different considerations on every project, regardless of its type or scale. To achieve carbon reduction goals, our design approach must incorporate best practices and strategies seamlessly into our practice.

Learning objectives:

Understand when to effectively overlay decarbonizing strategies onto existing project workflows, phase by phase.
Learn more about the best practices to achieve carbon reduction goals through design decisions.
Gain an overview of various carbon accounting tools, and when to leverage each tool's strengths.
Explore different approaches to making the case for decarbonizing design with clients and project teams.

Andrew W. Wickham, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP

Project Designer

LPA Design Studios

Andrew is a design leader at LPA, a national integrated design firm where he advances work at the intersection of built, cultural, and natural systems. His interest lies in how the blending of built and natural environments can enhance a user’s experience and reinforce values of equity, ecology, and curiosity. Andrew is a proven thinker and strategist, speaking at numerous conferences about the value of performative landscapes and human experience. In 2025, served as the Advocacy Lead for LA 2040: Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan and is co-chair of the Advocacy sub-committee of the Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee.

Marieke Lacasse, FASLA, LEED AP

Principal

GGLO

Marieke’s leadership in multidisciplinary practice and landscape architecture has yielded sustained impacts at local and national scales. Her commitment to promoting sustainability and ecological principles in dense environments has helped to create inherently social spaces that spark belonging and identity. She believes in collaboration, emphasizing co-creation and design equity, reflecting the unique character, values, and needs of a community. Marieke leads Climate Action and carbon drawdown in her work. She has served for three years on ASLA's Climate Action Committee and for ten years at the chapter level. She volunteers to support homeless and affordable housing, arts, and environmental non-profits.

Alejandra Hinojosa, Affil. ASLA

Senior Sustainability Specialist

LPA Design Studios

As Sustainability Specialist within LPA’s Sustainability + Applied Research (S+AR) Team, Alejandra is focused on process and progress. LPA Design Studios is a multidisciplinary firm that prioritizes an integrated approach to sustainability which allows Alejandra a unique window of opportunity to effect change at a project, discipline, and firm-wide level. Her passion for environmentalism fuels her capacity to advocate for solutions that drive decarbonization and consider the triple bottom line: people, planet, prosperity. Always thinking about how we can design our built environment to prioritize both our ecosystems and our neighbors.