Accreditation Seminar

 

  

 

ARCSA Accreditation Seminar

 

at the PG&E Energy Center

 

San Francisco, CA - February 18, 2009

 

ARCSA held an accreditation seminar for landscape architects through ASLA. Bobby Markowitz was asked to speak alongside President Tim Pope (ARCSA) and Billy Kniffen (accreditation certifier). They spoke before engineers, architects, designers, and so forth about the urban experience using rainwater harvesting systems. They talked about highlight projects such as the 17-story hospital in San Francisco that is currently in development and will feature a green roof designed by Rana Creek that is going to be irrigated by underground rainwater tanks built into the building!!

 

They also talked about how Australians use wide scale rainwater harvesting to mitigate drought problems. Australia has made rainwater harvesting a mainstream utility in order to deal with the water shortage issues that they face. Australia is currently leading the way for the rest of the world when it comes to rainwater catchment!!!

 

Using greywater for landscape irrigation was another water conservation method they spoke about, which is such an easy and efficient way to recycle water. Remember, water can be used several times over!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:55:56 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)      Comments [0]