11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1.5 ConEd Learning Hours
Transportation infrastructure has a major impact on our daily lives—from how communities work, play, thrive, or fail, to how we tackle the climate crisis at the local, municipal, provincial, and national scales. Within the lengthy transit project process that includes policy, planning, design, construction, and operations (not to mention the challenges of rapid population growth and lagging political will), how can architects and engineers contribute to the creation of sustainable, well-executed transit projects that tackle major climate-related issues such as density, connectivity, community, and individual behaviour?
This session will discuss sustainable design within the context of large-scale transit projects that connect and/or create communities. It will explore how transit architects and engineers support Transit Oriented Developments and Communities and provide measurable benefits in the fight for climate action.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the session, participants will:
- Be familiar with complex infrastructure processes and possible short- and long-term approaches to reducing car-dependency.
- Be challenged to think outside the box in terms of how sustainable transportation within the built environment is conceived.
- Be exposed to alternative design approaches that augment transit users’ experience.
- Be equipped with advocacy tools for use in reducing car-dependency and creating complete communities with dense, sustainable eco-systems that enhance quality of life.
Speakers
Lisa D'Abbondanza, B.Arch, BES, MRAIC, OAA, LEED AP, Director – Senior Practice Lead, Architecture, IBI Group
Lisa has over 25 years of experience as both a Lead Design Architect and Project Manager, including 14 years specializing in transit architecture. Her early career focused on a variety of building types as well as public community facilities. This history of working in community-focused architecture informs her approach to transit design and strengthens her belief transit facilities and systems can be community-enhancing endeavours. Lisa’s expertise includes station and transit systems from concept design, design development, and urban design to client and stakeholder relations, code compliance, value engineering, and construction management. Lisa is an award-winning architect who designs with elegance and simplicity.
Lindsey Kindrat, BSc., LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP ND, Associate, Director of Sustainable Consulting, Entuitive
Lindsey is a green building professional with 20 years of experience delivering sustainable buildings, green infrastructure plans, and high-performing facilities throughout Canada and the United States. She takes a triple bottom line approach to working with teams, communities, and clients on innovative, sustainable projects with a variety of green mandates. Lindsey’s expertise includes building climate resilience assessment, environmental regulations, green policy and procedure development, and sustainable urban redevelopment master planning.