Tips from the Trenches: Collaboration with Architects, Builders, and Landscape Contractors - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

This session will provide insight into how landscape architects can create the dream team approach from design through construction on residential projects. Explore methods of balancing creative design, materiality, and practical constructability. Learn how to create successful projects through case studies and frank dialogue with strategic partners.

Learning objectives:

Articulate methods that support best practices for co-creating design vision for a project with architects and the design team. Learn strategies that foster respect and create a collaborative approach.
Understand the how to engage and incorporate practical construction knowledge into design, and learn best practices and common mistakes in developing construction details.
Gain a better understanding about communicating our designs to tradespeople and what empowers their best work, and how to incorporate artisanal & trade knowledge into design and CDs.
Learn how custom residential scale projects can be an incubator for innovation in design and technical detailing.

Kate Stickley, ASLA

Founding partner

Arterra Landscape Architects

The hours spent clearing brambles for trails in the woods behind her home in the Brandywine River Valley might have been the first hint that Kate was destined to become a landscape architect. After studying landscape architecture at Michigan State University, Kate practiced large-scale resort design with EDSA in the Southeastern United States, Caribbean and lived 4 years in the South of France. Her love for crafting details together with contextual site design were the basis for co-founding Arterra in 2003. Today Arterra is recognized for its award winning custom residential landscapes throughout northern California.

Larry Steele, ASLA

VP and CoFounder

Siteworks Landscape

Larry’s passion for gardening, plants (especially roses) and all things “landscape” began at the very early age of eight when he designed his family’s rose garden. This passion was passed on to him from a long family of gardeners including his parents who both grew up in Portland, Oregon — the City of Roses.

Not surprisingly Larry later went to Cornell and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture. Following graduation he practiced as a landscape architect for a number of years before cofounding Siteworks with Tom Brumfield.

Jeff Jungsten

President

Jungsten Construction

Jeff is the first point of contact for clients, and oversees all aspects of Jungsten Construction’s business. He has more than 38 years of construction experience. Jeff is an Advanced Certified Green Building Professional, and leads the company’s extensive sustainability efforts. His vision for sustainable success and his single-minded dedication to Jungsten Construction’s clients are key to the company’s impressive growth and strong reputation.Technical advisor to Marin Recovers, Marin BERST technical advisor, past chair or the Marin Builders Associations new Green Building Committee, Advanced Certified Green Building Professional, Marin Clean Energy Leadership Team, and avid cyclist