Concurrent Education Session

SUN-B02: Design for Freedom: Eliminating Forced Labor in the Building Materials Supply Chain

Sunday, October 6, 2024

10:15am – 11:30am ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 146A

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, 1 CE GBCI SITES AP, NY/HSW, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Louis Fusco, ASLA, PLA

Principal
Louis Fusco Landscape Architects
POUND RIDGE, New York

Session Guide

Speaker(s)

Sharon Prince

Founder and CEO
Grace Farms Foundation
New Canaan, Connecticut
Amy Syverson-Shaffer, ASLA, SITES AP

Sustainability Leader
Landscape Forms
Kalamazoo, Michigan

It is time to reimagine landscape architecture and join our architectural and engineering colleagues by raising awareness and inspiring responses to disrupt forced labor in the materials supply chain. Learn how this new movement is mobilizing leaders, and how you can participate to design and build a more humane future.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how the material choices we make and specify have both a sustainable environmental impact and a social one, for the people manufacturing and producing these products.
Learn about forced labor associated with common material choices in the built environment and how we can work to improve our material selections.
Learn through pilot projects and case studies how our ethical design and material choices can educate our local cities and towns to modify their building codes.
Learn the relevant certifications and standards that we as professionals should be aware of when researching and specifying products, and how we can collaborate with product manufacturers to ensure ethical sourcing.