2014 ASLA Annual Meeting Denver | Session FRI-D08 3:30pm - 5:00pm

SIXTEEN WAYS TO MAKE A GREEN ROOF PAYAward-winning green roof designers discuss proven approaches to decreasing costs and generating benefits for green roofs, such as for the Kauffman Performing Arts Center (Kansas City, MO.), the Visionaire (New York City, NY), the World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.), and the YMCA (Toronto, ON).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES• Learn how to design green roofs that maximize multiple benefits. • Explore strategies for working with complex buildings and sites.• Learn how green roofs can provide immediate financial value to building owners to reduce up-front costs.• Understand the long-term economic cost-to-benefit implications of green-roof design decisions.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1) Introduction to Living Architecture a) About Green Roofs and Walls b) Overview of Green Roof Types

2) 16 Ways to Make a Green Roof Pay a) Public Benefits • Urban Heat Island Effect Reduction • Improved Air Quality • Increased Biodiversity • Green Job Creation • New Amenity Space • Improved Health and Well-being b) Private Benefits • Employee Efficiency • Property Value • Energy Efficiency • Stormwater Management • Increased Membrane Durability • Noise Reduction • Marketability • Fire Retardation • Solar Panel Integration • Urban Agriculture

3) Case Studies and Best Practices a) Kauffman Performing Arts Center (Kansas City, MO.) b) Visionaire (New York City, NY.) c) 300 Lafayette Street (New York City, NY.) d) P.S. 62 Net Zero Energy School (Staten Island, NY.) e) Columbia University School of Nursing (New York City, NY.) f) World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.) g) YMCA (Toronto, ON.)

4) Building a Regional Industry a) Policy and Program Options

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2014 ASLA Annual Meeting Denver | Session FRI-D08 3:30pm - 5:00pm

PRESENTERSRichard Hayden, RLA, ASLA, CLARB, GRP - American HydrotechRichard C. Hayden, RLA, ASLA, CLARB, GRP, is the Garden Roof Department Manager for Chicago-based American Hydrotech Inc. Hydrotech is the leading manufacturer of high quality roofing and waterproofing materials that are used around the world. With more than 33 years as a practicing Landscape Architect on a very wide range of projects, Richard is responsible for the department that provides engineered growing medias, drainage components, plant materials, edgings, and other materials and supplies to contractors across the United States. In addition to his management roles, Richard is responsible for the Garden Roof QA/QC program, development of the Garden Roof knowledge base, development of new product lines, and expansion of the use of the Garden Roof Assembly with AHI clients nationwide.

Mark Morrison, RLA, LLA, FASLA, GRP - Mark K. Morrison Landscape ArchitectureAs President of Mark K. Morrison Landscape Architecture P.C., a full service landscape architectural firm, Mark brings to his work over 40 years of professional design experience. His green roof projects have ranged from an international trade center in Moscow in 1976, 11 Diagonal Street in Johannesburg in 1983 to a master plan for the United Nations. His work can also be seen in Central Park, Battery Park City, Riverside Park, and Flushing Meadows - Corona Park. A University of Wisconsin graduate, Mark was president of the NY Chapter of the ASLA in 1993/1994 and 1981/1983. He was made a Fellow in 1997 and is an accredited Green Roof Professional. Mark and his firm were awarded the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, 2013 Award of Excellence in the Intensive Residential category for the Visionaire Green Roof in Battery Park City, NY, and in 2014 his firm was received the Green Roof for Healthy Cities Award of Excellence in the Intensive Institutional category for PS 6 Eric Dutt Eco Center, a learning environment on the rooftop of the Lillie Devereaux Blake School in New York City.

Vincent Javet, Affiliate ASLA - Green Roofs for Healthy CitiesVincent Javet, Affiliate ASLA, is a Senior Researcher for Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the North American green roof and wall industry association. He is attracted to creating solutions to complex challenges facing the contemporary urban fabric through unique and sustainable forms of design intervention. In his role at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, Vincent is responsible for the planning, implementation, facilitation and reporting of the Green Infrastructure Design Charrette program, a program that explores the economic and physical implications of green infrastructure integration in neighbourhood redesigns. Vincent sits on the editorial board of GROUND Magazine, an Ontario Association of Landscape Architects quarterly publication that provides an open forum for the exchange of ideas and information related to the profession of landscape architecture. In his spare time Vincent enjoys skiing, cycling, thinking about his professional biography and writing in third person.

MODERATORJeffrey L. Bruce, FASLA, GRP - J.L. Bruce & CompanyJeffrey L. Bruce, FASLA, is Owner of Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (JBC) a national landscape architectural firm. Mr. Bruce has received over 80 separate design and leadership awards. Award winning projects of his firm, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, have been published 150 times. He has been licensed to practice in 26 states and has served as an invited lecturer, visiting critic, and speaker at over 150 conferences and trade shows. In 1996, Mr. Bruce was elected Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is Past President of the American Society of Irrigation Consultants (ASIC) and Chairman of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC). Mr. Bruce is a LEED accredited professional, a certified irrigation designer and an EPA WaterSense Certified Professional. He was one of the first accredited Green Roof Professional’s (GRP) in North America and is a founding member of the Sports Turf Committee for the National Interscholastic Association of Athletic Administrators.

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