Landscape Architecture Webinar Symposium

Rooftop decks create valuable living and recreational space for building owners, residents, and clients. Accommodating restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and everything from residential to government buildings, rooftop deck systems offer the design flexibility to create versatile, unique outdoor spaces over any structural surface. This course explores the features, surface materials, and design options for rooftop deck systems and provides an overview of recommended planning and installation guidelines.

Photo courtesy of Bison Innovative Products

John Bozeman has worked in the Building Materials Industry for nearly 30 years with an emphasis on exterior decking, and has been the Western Territories Manager for Bison Innovative Products since 2012. John enjoys collaborating with architects, developers, engineers, and contractors and sharing his knowledge and experience to create unique, one of a kind outdoor living environments. He finds cultivating and building relationships with clients, and nurturing projects from the design phase to completion with them, to be very rewarding. John uses a hands-on approach to help make every project a success.

This presentation will lay the foundation of Embodied Carbon measurement and where concrete fits in the grand scheme of building material choices. Find out the characteristics that currently contribute and sequester carbon in today’s concrete while exploring some of the latest innovations. Designing for the landscape realm, we have the opportunity to not just have more informed product choices but also understand how those products can contribute to a climate-positive design through the system in which they are designed. We will explore key tactics and relevant case studies in North America that deliver positive results. Lastly, we will discuss key attributes of Interlocking Concrete Pavers (ICPs) and Segmental Retaining Wall Systems (SRWs) that will help you design to NetZero project goals.

Photo courtesy of Unilock

Elaine Willis began her career at Unilock over 25 years ago. Starting in sales, she then moved into various marketing roles before a ten-year stint as Director of Commercial Strategy. In 2023, Elaine took on a new role as Director of Sustainability, where she is focused on spearheading initiatives that drive Unilock down the path to becoming a carbon neutral company, while helping designers build beautiful landscapes that enhance our lives, our health and our environment.