Additional fee, registration required.Despite advances toward gender equality, construction administration and the construction environment remain male dominated. This tour and conversation between female-identifying professionals within the landscape architecture and the construction industry will examine their experience collaborating on a notable and award-winning case study: The National World War I Memorial.
Alan Karchmer/OttoLearning Objectives
- Explore the construction administration process from three women who were instrumental in the project's construction.
- Learn to foster relationships between diverse collaborators and work cooperatively across disciplines.
- Hear ways to promote the value of gender diversity within all phases of design, especially during the construction administration process, and gain perspective in changing gender dynamics.
- Investigate the challenges of designing and building within an existing site while preserving historic elements.