 Architects, Engineers and Design Professionals:
Unilock is pleased to present the David Yocca, principle of CDF, a firm recognized nationally for their achievements in LID and Sustainable Design.
Between seminars enjoy a complimentary lunch buffet and visit the annual Uni-Expo, featuring over an acre of lavishly landscaped display gardens, landscape-industry exhibitors and much more at the adjacent convention center. This is a free event for members of the professional design community. Join us for this annual education and networking event!
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David J. Yocca, RLA, ASLA, AICP, LEED AP
Principal Landscape Architect/Planner
 Conservation Design Forum
David Yocca is motivated by a desire to cultivate healthy, inspiring places that promote sustainable living. David has led the landscape architectural and planning disciplines at Conservation Design Forum (www.cdfinc.com), located in Elmhurst, Illinois and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) since 1996. His intimate knowledge of green practices and development issues incorporate human-scaled qualities with locally appropriate, ecologically-based landscapes. David and CDF have pioneered the application and integration of leading-edge green practices in their work, including ecological green roof systems, porous interlocking unit pavement systems, and bioretention systems (rain gardens, bioswales, etc.).
 David serves as principal for many of CDF's pioneering, high profile green efforts, including the celebrated Chicago City Hall Demonstration Green Roof, the Queens Botanical Garden Master Plan and Capital Improvements in Flushing, New York, and Iowa's Green Streets Pilot Demonstration Project in West Union.
David regularly collaborates with similarly aligned professionals and clients on sites of every size, location, use, and context located throughout the United States. He has developed master plans for conservation villages, parks, urban neighborhoods, and communities. He has participated in the visioning, design, entitlement, and implementation process for numerous sustainable sites, including schools, hospitals, museums, interpretive centers, churches, homes, and businesses.
David is nationally recognized as a leading green practitioner, and routinely presents at workshops, conferences, and universities on sustainable topics. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, and the principal site designer for many of CDF's LEED-certified projects. He is one of a number of like-minded green professionals helping to develop the Sustainable Sites Initiative (www.sustainablesites.org), a new design tool crafted to promote the holistic integration of green practices for all sites as part of a restorative, healthy approach.
Below are a list of the seminars that will be presented:
Ecologically-Grounded Site Design: Integrating Porous Unit Pavement Systems
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Location: Southborough Room in Hotel
Program Description:
Porous unit pavement is an essential element of sustainable site infrastructure. Porous unit pavement systems have been deployed in a variety of applications, climates, and uses, and achieve a wide range of benefits. These systems offer the potential to create long-term value and sustainability. David Yocca, of Conservation Design Forum, will explain his firm's mission to provide sustainable, restorative qualities to all places. He will provide an overview of CDF's sustainable site planning and design approach, and share their 15 years of built experience with these practices. David will present CDF's experience in the planning, design, and engineering of porous unit pavement systems, primarily in cold-weather climates in the Midwest, including public streets, parking lots/private roadways, and public plazas. He will share images of CDF's pioneering, sustainably-focused work with case studies that include porous unit pavement systems.
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Harvesting Rainwater with RainXchange
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: Southborough Room in Hotel
Program Description:
The RainXchange system is a new twist on an old idea. Fred Pape of Aquascape will explain how rainwater harvesting has been around for hundreds of years but has recently come to the forefront with today's concerns over the availability of fresh water resources. The RainXchange is a modular rainwater storage system that includes a decorative element. Architects, Builders, Developers, and Land Planners: The RainXchange System is an ideal solution for your next green building project. Most residential and commercial developments require some degree of an effective storm water management strategy. This creates an opportunity to not only store excess water, but to cherish its presence by understanding it and turning it into an asset of the design, as opposed to an afterthought.
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Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement (PICP)
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: Southborough Room in Hotel
Program Description:
Matt Foley of Unilock will provide an overview of permeable interlocking concrete pavements, related environmental issues and solutions, system components, selection and basic design information.
Upon completing the course, you will be able to:
- Describe the impact that impervious surfaces have had on environmental and human health.
- Define permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PICP) and describe how it improves upon the negative environmental impact of impervious surfaces.
- List the components of a pervious system and discuss design variables for different design objectives.
- List ideal existing conditions for successful use of PICP's.
- Identify different types or permeable interlocking concrete pavements and their benefits for a variety of conditions and uses.
- Analyze two significant case studies in both residential and commercial development.
- Explore current research in operations and maintenance.
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