ASLA Colorado

Join us for our Harvest Hangout! A gathering at?Colorado Hardscapes DTC office and showroom tomorrow - Thursday, October 17th from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.! There will be a food truck and drinks provided. We can’t wait to see you there! Reach out to us with questions on Instagram or at [email protected]

Are you a young professional and/or student in the Denver area? Join us next week for our first emerging professionals happy hour at Denver Milk Market! Thursday, August 22nd from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

The 2024 Annual Awards Event will be hosted at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science on Thursday, September 12th! Join your colleagues for an evening of networking, celebrating a year of great work, and more! Join Denver Parks & Recreation and Dig Studio from 4:45-6pm for a pre-event tour of the recently built, City Park Nature Play and Waterway. Option to join the tour is included in your registration for the event. Limited spots available! Limited Awards Event on-site registration will be available. Tickets are available below! Pre-registration closes on September 5, 2024. https://lnkd.in/gFf5kM-2

Join the ASLA CO-WY chapter to help raise funds for the?WxLA?organization with our special guest Rebecca Leonard! This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow landscape architects and designers while enjoying delicious food and drinks. WxLA is an advocacy initiative created in 2018 to encourage and lead efforts toward equality in our profession. All proceeds from this event will go to the WxLA initiative For tickets, we have a $15 student ticket and a $25 general admission ticket. If you are willing and able to donate more, we would appreciate if you could do so using the "Donation" ticket option. Your donation helps fund scholarships for womxn in landscape architecture. Purchase tickets at the link in our bio, and note that ticket sales end on August 1st, 2024! If you have questions or are interested in sponsoring this event, please reach out to us here or e-mail [email protected] https://lnkd.in/gA-SPV-p

Join us for July Third Thursday, our monthly social event for the local landscape architecture community! For this month, please join ASLA CO-WY and our event sponsor,?Tournesol Siteworks?, at?Dig Studio, Inc.'s Denver office on May 16th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Most Third Thursdays of the month, we gather at a firm’s office or an excellent new spot around town to connect about work, life, or hobbies and talk all things landscape architecture. We hope to reach all our members by facilitating these events in all four corners of Colorado and Wyoming! We can’t wait to see you there! Reach out to us with questions here or at [email protected]

Join ASLA, Dig Studio, Inc., PCL Construction, Martin/Martin, Inc, and the Downtown Denver Partnership for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the transformation of the iconic 16th Street Mall. Meet at the Downtown Denver Partnership first-floor conference room - 1515 Arapahoe St?#100?at 4:00 p.m. for a quick introduction about the space, followed by a walking tour to highlight the different stages of construction of the mall. Join us afterwards for happy hour at West Saloon (at 16th and Glenarm). Visit the link to register and for more information about the event. registration is FREE but capped at 50 participants. Registration closes on May 30th, 2024. https://lnkd.in/gn3uFBgC

ASLA Colorado participates in National Advocacy Day ASLA Colorado participated in ASLA National’s annual virtual advocacy day on Wednesday May 8 and had Zoom meetings with staff from Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet’s offices, as well as with staff from CD-6 Representative Jason Crow’s office. During the calls, VP of Government Affairs David Sprunt, ASLA introduced the staffers to the profession of landscape architecture, discussed the process and importance of licensure, what ASLA Colorado does, and showed several of our award-winning projects on the website, which really helped them understand the scope of work done by the profession and the positive impact landscape architects have on our communities. The two bills we advocated for are: H.R. 2921 - The Water Infrastructure Sustainability and Efficiency (WISE) Act, which would increase investments for nature-based water infrastructure projects by allowing more funding from the EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) to be allocated and loaned to communities to build these green infrastructure projects. The bill is an administrative change to the Green Project reserve fund that is part of the CWSRF, and does not spend any new money. We asked Rep. Crow to co-sponsor the bill, and the senators to introduce a companion bill in the Senate. S. 722 / H.R. 1477 - The Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act.?This bill would transform 529 savings plans from college savings accounts into career accounts, allowing individuals to contribute to 529 plans (exempt from federal taxes) to help pay for expenses relating to post-secondary credentials and skills training?- like landscape architecture licensure and continuing education expenses. ASLA estimates that the national average cost for initial licensure and exams is $3500, and annual continuation of licensure and continuing education costs $750, so this would be a big benefit for landscape architects, and members of some 800 other organizations of licensed professionals who are advocating for this bill.?The act would cost about $85 million over five years - barely a drop in the bucket of the federal budget. We thanked Senator Hickenlooper for his co-sponsorship of this bi-partisan bill, and asked Senator Bennet and Rep. Crow to co-sponsor the bill in the Senate and House, respectively. If you would like more information about either of these bills, or would like to get involved with the Chapter's government affairs and advocacy efforts and site tours for elected officials, contact David Sprunt, ASLA at?[email protected]. #ASLAAdvocates

Join us for May Third Thursday, our monthly social event for the local landscape architecture community! For this month, please join ASLA CO-WY and our event sponsor,?Basalite Concrete Products, at?Matrix Design Group, Inc.'s Denver office on Thursday, May 16th from 5:30-7:30! Every Third Thursday of the month, we gather at a firm’s office or an excellent new spot around town to connect about work, life, or hobbies and talk all things landscape architecture. We hope to reach all our members by facilitating these events in all four corners of Colorado and Wyoming! We can’t wait to see you there! Reach out to us with questions here or at [email protected]

The 2024 ASLA CO-WY Professional Awards Call submission portal is now open!!! Deadline for submissions is 5:00pm July 12, 2024. This year's awards will be judged by the Indiana chapter in late July. The winning projects will be awarded at the ASLA CO-WY Annual Awards Event and Celebration on Thursday, September 12 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (stay tuned for more information!) Based on comments and survey feedback, the following changes have been made: - The General Design category now has three cost tiers instead of two - The Residential Design category cost amount has been updated to better reflect current trends - Added a way to describe how our members contributed to out-of-state and international projects - Added a way to recognize contributions of other team members on the project For more information and to submit your projects visit this link - https://lnkd.in/gcuSS_9H

Can't wait to see you on Thursday!