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“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read, and recieve my company” —Thomas Jefferson
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Building With Trees

Featuring Charles A. Stewart

Full Day Seminar • April 29 • Memphis, TN
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This information-packed seminar is designed to benefit anyone involved in the planning, building, and designing of residential or commercial structures.

Using existing trees during development increases property values, reduces energy bills, deters traffic noise, provides privacy, increases the project’s street appeal, and blocks unpleasant views. By providing a more pleasant, “finished” ambience, leaving mature trees in your development will achieve faster and better sales. Conserving trees can also save you development costs by eliminating clearing, grading, and landscaping expenses. Therefore when trees exist on land that is to be developed, it is economically and environmentally beneficial to preserve these assets.

But saving trees during construction requires more than the right attitude — it requires the right actions. This information-packed seminar is designed to benefit anyone involved in the planning, building, and designing of residential or commercial structures. Implementing the planning, construction, and maintenance process can help you save trees, time, and money. Discover the techniques that can save these valuable assets from the bulldozer.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to implement the planning, construction, and maintenance (PCM) process to save trees, time, and money.
  • Understand the challenges and benefits to building with trees.
  • Study how to identify a tree’s “critical root zone” and use this data on the site.
  • Find out how to assemble, train, and organize your team.
  • Discover specific construction activities that can save trees.
  • Master methods of design that will minimize your short term and long term maintenance.
  • Take home new ideas to implement in your local project.

How You Will Benefit

  • This continuing education course deals in the practical logistics that you can utilize on the site. Visual aids bring actual field examples into the seminar.
  • Lectures, group discussions, and case studies teach you the important concepts that you can use on future projects.
  • Enjoy multiple opportunities for one-to-one discussions with your instructor and other seminar attendees who share in your concerns and problems.
  • Receive a complete “tool kit” of practical reference materials that will serve as a valuable guide again and again.

Topic Outline

  • Planning Phase
    • Assembling the Team
    • Understanding the Site
    • Identifying Concerns of the Builder/Developer
    • Identifying Concerns of the Community
    • Cooperative Approach to Ordinances
    • Collecting Data
    • Critical Root Zone
    • Final Design
  • Pre-Construction Phase
    • Pre-Construction Meeting
    • Implementing the Early Action Plan
  • Construction Phase
  • Maintenance Phase
    • Short Term Maintenance
    • Long Term Maintenance
    • Designing for Maintenance
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