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04/05/2024: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Structural Soil Applications for Green Infrastructure - Encore Presentation, Friday, April 5, 2024, 12pm-1pm Eastern

04/05/2024: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Structural Soil Applications for Green Infrastructure - Encore Presentation, Friday, April 5, 2024, 12pm-1pm Eastern

1 hr. Webinar

Level: Intermediate

Item#: RV-W040524

SME: Anonymous

This is a live, repeat presentation of a webinar that was originally offered on 03/03/2023, 07/11/2023 and 11/03/2023. Attendees of the previously offered presentations, RV-W030323, RV-W071123, and RV-110323, will not receive CEU for attending the 04/05/2024 presentation.
 
This course looks at the details of installing green infrastructure solutions, with a specific focus on structural soils and strategies. Structural soils and structural strategies are essential for building safe, sustainable green infrastructure elements. Case studies will be used to present different alternatives that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
 
Note: This is a live webinar delivered via GoToWebinar. Session instructions will be emailed to you 24-48 hours prior to the webinar and the morning of the webinar. If you have not received your instructions for any reason please call Customer Support (1-866-546-1212) the day of the event. Webinars are live and interactive. Students will have the ability to directly interact with and ask questions of the presenter.
Course Objectives
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
  • Identify the major components of healthy structural soil.
  • Research different approaches and techniques that provide an improved growing media and support biodiversity for plants in urban ecosystems.
  • Review sustainable solutions and case studies that show ecological, social, and economic benefits of the use of structured soils.
  • Identify design and planning strategies that promote agricultural productivity, clean water, and flood prevention.
  • Identify the health and welfare benefits of structured soil by documenting measurable results from implemented projects and developments.
  • Identify opportunities in which structured soil can be implemented or improved upon to promote physical activity and social cohesion in urban areas.