Concrete Confidential: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Ubiquitous Building Material - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Recorded On: 10/06/2024

Concrete is a ubiquitous building material, relatively economical, adaptable, and maintainable, but it comes with a heavy environmental price tag. Since it's not departing anytime soon, we need to be smarter when designing with concrete and integrate practical steps that will reduce waste, improve longevity, and include eco-friendly mixes into projects.

Learning objectives:

Learn about practical and effective ways to reduce concrete waste in a project.
Delve into techniques that can extend the longevity and maintainability of concrete in your projects.
Look at ways to reduce the carbon cost of cast-in-place concrete.
Raise your awareness of types of more sustainable concrete that are available in the market and practical to specify.

Jenny Hamann, ASLA

Senior Associate

Stantec

Jennifer (Jenny) is a Senior Associate Landscape Architect with nearly 20 years of experience delivering technically complex landscapes in urban and coastal environments. Based in New York City with Stantec, she has led multidisciplinary design and construction efforts across a wide range of public realm and resilience projects. Jenny brings expertise in construction detailing, cross-disciplinary coordination, on-structure/ green roof projects and climate resilient landscapes. She is committed to collaborative, technically grounded design that transforms constraints into buildable, sustainable solutions—creating landscapes that elevate user experience and adapt to evolving climate challenges.

John Payne, ASLA, PLA, ISA, Assoc. DBIA

Partner

SiteWorks

John Payne, PLA, ASLA, ISA has worked on complex park and public space projects with challenging logistical and phasing constraints, both nationally and internationally. John’s previous career as an Army leader has instilled in him a firm belief in the power of teamwork to realize a project to its full potential. His experience as a construction project manager and certified arborist helps him bring a landscape builder’s and maintainer’s lens to a project to better assess and predict maintenance, operational, cost, and phasing issues that could affect the final project's success.