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Detailed Program

Thursday, November 12: Conference Agenda

Missouri Botanical Garden, Ridgway Center, 4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis, MO

Green infrastructure solutions play an important role in place making for our communities, particularly in new and revitalized public spaces.  The conference gives communities the opportunity to learn first-hand about recent experiences in local projects, the reality of the bottom line, the benefits they provide and the challenges they present to local governments, developers, consultants and the local communities where they are built.

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome

• Tracy Boaz, Board President, St. Louis Earth Day

8:40 Introduction

• Frank Kartmann, President, Missouri American Water - presentation

9:00 Introductory Keynote

• Dr. Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden - presentation

9:40 Keynote - Creating Sustainable Places

• Warren T. Byrd, Jr., Principal, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

10:30 Break

10:50 How Green Infrastructure Can Thrive in the Current Environment:

Crafting Regulations that Encourage Innovation

• William K. Berthold, P.E., President, Frontenac Engineering - presentation

• John Grimm, P.E., Principal Engineer, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District

• Don Roe, Acting Director Planning and Urban Design Agency, City of St. Louis - presentation

• Ryan Savage, Project Engineer, Holland Construction - presentation

Moderator: David Wilson, Environment & Community Planning, East-West Gateway Council of Governments

12:00 Lunch - Beaumont Room 

1:30 Eco-Recovery:  Place Making with Green Infrastructure

• Richard Shaw, FASLA, Principal and Partner, Design Workshop, Inc., Aspen, CO - presentation
• Mark Felton, Project Manager, URS Corporation, St. Louis, MO - presentation

• Kim Hibbs, President, Hibbs Homes - presentation

Moderator: Martin Toma, Director of County Services and Code Enforcement

2:40 Break

3:00 Tackling the Challenges of Stream Dynamics

• Jeff Smith, P.E., Civil Engineer/Project Manager, Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District - presentation

• Thomas J. Casey, P.E., Senior Project Engineer, SCI Engineering - presentation

• Michele Gremminger, Stormwater Management Coordinator, City of O'Fallon, MO - presentation

Moderator: Scott Harding, Vice President and Director of Natural Resource Services, SCI Engineering

4:00 Low Impact Development Cost/Benefit: Economics and the Environment

• Bob Newport, Water Division, EPA Region 5 - presentation
• Kerry Herndon, Sustainable Infrastructure Coordinator, EPA Region 7 - presentation

 PDH credits from ASCE and ASLA are available - CM Credits from APA are in process 

Friday, November 13: Technical Workshop

St. Louis Engineers' Club, 4359 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO

You Called It Green - Is It Really Working?

Local government officials and staff, landscape architects, engineers and the construction community are grappling with design and maintenance issues for a suite of new green infrastructure techniques.  Building on the range of issues discussed in the conference, this workshop delves in-depth into planting soils, technologies, technical installation issues and site design with an emphasis on the short and long-term costs and benefits.

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome

• D. Anne Lewis, ASLA, Principal, Lewisites, President, American Society of Landscape Architects St. Louis Chapter

8:45 Installation Issues for Stormwater Best Management Practices

• Jay Hoskins, P.E., Civil Engineer, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District - presentation

9:15 Maintenance and Design Concerns for Local Governments

• Paul Wojciechowski, AICP, P.E., Senior Client Manager, CH2M Hill, Former Clayton Public Works Director - presentation

9:45 Key Limiting Factors and Solutions for Urban Trees and Shrubs

• Mark Gruber, Urban Forester, Missouri Department of Conservation - presentation

10:15 Break

10:30 Critical Issues and Implications with Site Design and Soil Specifications

• Jeffery L Bruce, FASLA, President, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company - presentation

11:00 Soil Mixes, Structural Soils, Silva Cells, Planting Trenches - What Works?

• Jason Grabosky, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University - presentation

11:30 Lunch

12:00 Luncheon Presentations: Panel Discussion

12:45 Concluding Remarks

• D. Anne Lewis, ASLA 
  

PDH credits from ASCE and ASLA are available - CM Credits from APA are in process. 

2009 Sponsors:

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District

Missouri American Water ∙ Missouri Botanical Garden ∙ Missouri Department of Conservation

American Planning Association ∙ East-West Gateway Council of Governments ∙ Riverworks Discovery

American Society of Landscape Architects ∙ American Society of Civil Engineers ∙ Greenway Network ∙ Lucky You Productions ∙  HNTB ∙ SCI Engineering ∙ Turfmasters ∙ Wind Capital Group