Pre-Conference Bay-Friendly Landscape Tour
Itinerary of Locations
On September 16, 2010, participants of the Bay-Friendly Pre-Conference Landscape Tour will have the opportunity to visit four unique and interesting Bay-Friendly Rated landscapes in Alameda County, and to learn first hand from some of the Bay Area’s leading professionals in sustainable landscaping. All locations are examples of complex projects that successfully integrated Bay-Friendly landscaping and Green Building practices.
The bio-diesel chartered bus will depart from the StopWaste.Org office at 1537 Webster Street in downtown Oakland. Registration fee includes lunch, beverages and materials.
Tour participants need to arrive at StopWaste.Org no later than 8:30am. The bus will leave at 8:45 a.m. and return to StopWaste.Org by 3:30 p.m.
Space is limited – register today!
Shinsei Gardens Apartments: Nurturing the Soil
Our first stop of the day will be Shinsei Gardens in Alameda, a new complex of four apartments that earned LEED Platinum rating. We’ll tour Shinsei’s spacious courtyard and grounds and discuss its many Bay-Friendly features with the project’s landscape architect. Shinsei’s location – on the former U.S. Navy Feet Industrial Supply Center – presented particular challenges and opportunities to the project team. The landscape architect will describe the innovative processes undertaken to restore soil health, including laboratory soil analysis, temporary top-soil removal, and cover cropping to produce organic matter on site.
Ironhorse Apartments at Central Station: Conserving Water
From Alameda we’ll travel to Oakland to visit Ironhorse at Central Station, the first apartment residence to open in an exciting project that integrates unused industrial land into the surrounding residential neighborhood. We’ll explore the grounds of this Green-Point Rated apartment development with the project’s landscape architect who will explain the many Bay-Friendly practices incorporated into the design with special emphasis on those that conserve water.
Doyle Hollis Park: Use sustainable Materials for Less to the Landfill
After Central Station the bio-diesel bus will take us to Doyle Hollis Park, a block-long urban oasis in Emeryville. Opened in September 2009, the park offers its densely developed neighborhood a beautiful outdoor setting for play, relaxation and exercise. During our guided tour, the project’s landscape architect and the City’s Environmental Services manager will highlight the park’s many Bay-Friendly achievements, most notably the diversion of nearly 100 percent of waste from landfill during construction and ongoing in park maintenance. The park was also designed to naturally filter more than 85 percent of the stormwater runoff.
After completing our tour and discussion, we’ll enjoy a delicious organic catered lunch and free time for networking and relaxing in the park.
Alameda County Library, Castro Valley Branch: Protecting Stormwater Quality
For our final tour of the day, we’ll leave the East Bay’s urban core and travel to a Bay-Friendly landscape in suburban Castro Valley. The new Alameda County Library Castro Valley branch is a spectacular light-filled, comfortable, and healthy building that meets Silver LEED standards. The Bay-Friendly features of the library’s landscape also contributed to many of the project’s LEED credits. The project’s landscape architect will discuss how a variety of strategies were employed to protect stormwater quality, from “daylighting” a creek to use of swales. The landscape also includes a diverse and beautiful palette of California native and Mediterranean plants that thrive with infrequent or occasional watering.
At the conclusion of this last site visit, the bus will return us by 3:30 p.m. to the StopWaste.Org offices in Oakland.
Registration: Space is limited - register today!
For More Information:
Contact Joanne Connelly, Conference Planner
Joanne@BayFriendlyCoalition.org
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