Registration Eligibility
Landscape professionals including contractors, designers, architects, arborists, and growers.
Start Date
02/03/2021
End Date
02/03/2022
Description
What is a “high-performance” urban tree and what benefits do such trees offer our cities? Why should we increase investment in order to produce high-performance trees? What are the key things that specifiers, designers, property owners – and frankly residents – want to see from an increased investment in urban trees? Is it stormwater management, carbon mitigation, oxygen production, wind deflection, noise abatement, urban heat island reduction, street beautification – or is it other benefits that healthy trees offer…? At what point do the benefits of a high-performance tree outweigh the costs of creating it? This session addresses these questions in a thought-provoking presentation that analyzes and defines the factors that contribute to high-performance trees, and the key to realizing their benefits through design. It reviews the best practices and design techniques that successfully integrate trees into urban infrastructure, and provides examples of how high-performance trees have been established in regional and international case studies.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Horticulture / Plants
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand why “Low Impact Development” and “Sustainable Infrastructure” are only buzzwords unless sustainable practices are being used and performance is realized
2. Learn how the implementation of sustainable BMPs can become common practice without compromising return-on-investment
3. Review projects that have successfully produced high-performance trees and examine their benefits and results, including how they were designed and installed?
Instructors
Shane Carpani, GreenBlue Urban
Course Codes
Illinois Landscape Contractors Association
Provider
Illinois Landscape Contractors Association