Robert N Oelberg ASLA PA: Sustainable Sites
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices. The guidelines are still in the draft form. Robert N Oelberg ASLA PA is committed to understanding and implementing these guidelines as they evolve and unfold.
Currently, this is the care that RNO ASLA PA will bring to every project:
- Plants which are identified as ‘invasive exotics in the Southeast’ will not be specified;
- Most, but not all (unless the client requests) of the plants shown on planting plans will be native to the Eastern US. That includes cultivars of native plants and hybrids which significantly include native parent species. Plants that are native to other areas will be regionally appropriate.
- If the site is in an area which is prone to grazing by deer, then only plants listed as ‘Rarely Damaged’ or ‘Seldom Severely Damaged’ will be specified, unless the client wants to ‘take a chance’ in select locations with ‘Occasionally Severely Damaged’ plants.
- Where appropriate, encourage the use of residential scale storm water manage strategies, such as rain gardens;
- Encourage the use of Dark Sky compliant outdoor lighting;
- Where there is a choice, discourage extensive lawns which will require regular irrigation and maintenance.
- Discourage landscapes which will require extensive on-going irrigation.
Bob Oelberg
(828) 264-4149
(828) 406-8218 (Cell)
bob@oelbergla.com
782 Little Laurel Road, Ext.
Boone, NC 28607-8915
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