Winning The Stormwater Game: Green Infrastructure Planning & Design

There is immense potential for green infrastructure to provide multiple benefits for project sites and the larger urban context. Beyond just managing stormwater, we can develop integrated systems that add resilience through infiltration and treating stormwater, while optimizing green over gray systems to maximize urban habitat, aesthetics, and better connect people with natural systems. Within this framework, we will discuss the larger benefits of green infrastructure systems, how to implement specific stormwater management techniques in LEED v4, and how vegetated stormwater facilities aid in maximizing additional benefits, including open space and habitat credits. To apply these concepts, we will end by assembling in teams and playing the Stormwater Game, a hands on interactive experience developed by Herrera, and based on the Seattle 2030 District Water Calculator. This fun and engaging tool offers the opportunity to put concepts in action, by application of stormwater strategies for low, medium, and high density sites, while challenging users to balance costs and benefits for ecology, water, habitat, and aesthetics.

Jason King, ASLA CLARB LEED AP is a landscape architect with Mithun with a focus on urban ecological design and planning, green infrastructure, resilience & sustainable stormwater management.

Chris Webb, PE LEED-Fellow is a licensed professional civil engineer at Herrera, whose passion and technical expertise is focused on providing civil engineering designs that demonstrate the highest degree of sustainability and are based on ecological principles

Matthew Combe is the Program Director of the Seattle 2030 District, a public-private partnership of property owners, managers, design professionals, King County and The City of Seattle to create America’s first High-Performance Building District.

AIA Continuing Education Credit is approved for this event.

Light refreshments will be provided.