As a park and recreation professional or landscape architect, you play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable communities, healthier kids and a healthier planet. As Landscape Structures, communities, and our entire nation are working toward getting kids off the sofa and on the playground, it is increasingly crucial to provide safe and challenging parks and playgrounds.
To make your job more efficient and effective, Landscape Structures has developed the Landscape Structures Learning Academy. Our nationally accredited seminar program brings you interesting, timely and critical topics for continuing education credits (CEUs). As an IACET authorized provider, Landscape Structures offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under IACET guidelines.
Sessions Include:
- Designing Fitness-Focused Playgrounds
- Environmentally Preferable Playground Purchasing
- Beyond Accessibility: A Higher Level of Inclusive Play™
- Designing Natural Play Environments
During these interesting sessions, you’ll learn the latest topics like sustainability, solutions to childhood obesity, multi-generational activities, park design and other relevant topics that can help make your job easier. You’ll expand your knowledge base and learn practical information to provide solutions to your community.
SofSurfaces has recently been approved by ASLA to provide Professional Development Hours (PDH’s) through their Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES). SofSurfaces can now provide PDH’s for both in class participation and through live webinar courses. Additionally, the presentation qualifies under the areas of public health, safety, and welfare.
Sessions Include:
- Designing Performance Based Playground Safety Surfacing Specifications.
The course description and learning objectives:
ASTM F1292 is the governing standard for regulating the safety performance of playground surfacing. It is an extremely important and relevant document for anyone considering the purchase of a playground safety surface. The document however is highly technical and even a careful read can prove to be too technical to provide meaningful information to the average reader. The following course has been designed to provide insight into the key concepts of the document using everyday language and terms that you can understand. The course further explains how the information contained within the standard can be used to create a performance based safety surfacing specification. If you are involved in any aspect of specifying or purchasing playground surfacing, this course is a must for you.
There are 3 main learning objectives in which this presentation is based. They include:
- Unravel the key terms and concepts within the ASTM F1292 standard using everyday language and examples.
- Provide the tools to allow you to explain the most important concepts in the Standard to a customer in simplistic but effective terms.
- Discuss methods of designing a performance based specification or purchasing contract that will utilize concepts from the ASTM F1292 standard to legitimize the specification and protect your customers surfacing investment.
Contact us today to find out more or to schedule a session.
