Landscape

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: mmcité street furniture

This course explores how site furnishings—seating, shelters, and planters—align with biophilic design principles to enhance public spaces. Participants will learn how natural materials, organic forms, and integrated greenery promote community health, safety, and well-being. We look at real-world examples that highlight strategies for creating restorative environments that reduce stress, encourage interaction, and support sustainability, transforming urban spaces into vibrant, nature-connected places.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the historical context and foundational concepts of biophilic design.
• Identify and explain core biophilic design strategies relevant to public spaces.
• Analyze how site furnishings support biophilic design through materiality, form, and integration.
• Evaluate how biophilic site elements contribute to human health, safety, and welfare in the public realm.

Presenters

Albert Harris

Brand Development Manager

Albert Harris

Albert is Brand Development Manager for mmcité USA & Canada. He has a background in architecture, planning and was practicing Landscape Architect. He has 14+ years in design experience. He has been a bartender, truck driver, commercial photographer, & helped grow 3 successful business along the way. Albert understands the value of wonderful open spaces and the public realm. He is well traveled and has a love for words and artful expressions.

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Bison IP

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.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the key features of deck supports, including their weight bearing capacities, durability, and height and slope adjustability, that enable precise deck leveling and a safe, structurally sound rooftop deck.
• Recall appropriate installation conditions for rooftop decking systems, and provide installation guidelines to facilitate a durable and level deck installation that meets structural, loading, and building code requirements.
• Discuss the benefits of rooftop deck systems and their site furnishings, including the health benefits to building occupants and the environmental attributes of the materials used.
• Describe customization options for rooftop decking systems, and reference case studies to illustrate how a unique, usable outdoor space can be installed over any structural surface.

Presenters

John Bozeman

West Territories Manager

John Bozeman

John Bozeman has worked in the Building Materials Industry for nearly 30 years with an emphasis on exterior decking, and has been the West Coast Sales 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.