Steintec Civil Engineering: Part One

It seems like so many of these lectures are about our connection to other disciplines.

How do we interact with each other? How do we facilitate a meaningful dialogue? How do we as landscape architects protect ourselves in a field full of blame?

Key findings:

• What is sustainability?

• It's all about balance- between goals and between professions

• Early engagement between disciplines is key

• Embodied carbon (CO2e)- a measurement of the total for greenhouse gases emitted, expressed in terms of the equivalent measurement of carbon dioxide; Embodied carbon is often more informative than carbon

• Manufacturers, designers, and contractors each have methods of reducing CO2e (see notes for examples)

• Variations in design and specification+ unpredictable performance and carbon emissions 

• “there is hardly anything is the world that some can make cheaper... when you pay too little you lose everything..” 

  -John Raskins Common Law of Business Balance 

Steve Burton Civil Engineer.pdf

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