MON-A04: Managing Stormwater with Green Infrastructure: Lessons from Practice and What's Next

Monday, November 14, 2022

9:00am – 10:30am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 205-206

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, 1 GBCI SITES AP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Pippa W. Brashear, ASLA

Principal
SCAPE Landscape Architecture
New York, New York

Speaker(s)

Eric Rothstein

Managing Partner
eDesign Dynamics LLC
New York, New York
Andrea Parker, ASLA

Executive Director
Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Brooklyn, New York

Since its Green Infrastructure Plan in 2010, New York City has built thousands of green infrastructure projects. The Gowanus watershed in Brooklyn was one of the city’s first combined sewer watersheds to pilot many green infrastructure practices. Find out about lessons learned from plans, implemented projects, and maintenance and education programs.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the basic types of green infrastructure, how they work, and how they are being creatively adapted and applied in urban environments.
Understand and be able to clearly and concisely communicate the benefits, co-benefits, limitations and ongoing maintenance needs of Green Infrastructure to successfully incorporate green infrastructure in your design projects.
Understand key maintenance and operations challenges and considerations for green infrastructure and the role that Landscape Architects must play in designing and advocating for long term management.
Walk away with concrete examples of successes and failures in urban green infrastructure projects from an urban environment (New York City) over the last decade.