造園家と雨水管理



認定造園家の雨水管理に関する設計資格の話題。

ASLA(米国造園家協会)の対応がうまくいったようです。

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Pennsylvania Confirms Landscape Architects Qualified for Stormwater
State agency reverses previous statement that limited most stormwater practice to engineers.



On January 17, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a letter reversing its earlier position regarding the qualifications of landscape architects to address stormwater management. The letter confirms that landscape architects "are qualified to design certain structural stormwater best management practices (BMPs)."

In late 2006, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) adopted new stormwater management provisions, including BMPs such as vegetated swales, biofilters, and the like. Along with the regulations, DEP held a series of training sessions through which the department informed attendees that the new stormwater management plans can only be sealed by an engineer, including these BMPs that are clearly within the scope of landscape architecture (and identified in the definition of landscape architecture in the licensing law).

Upon identification of this situation, the Pennsylvania/Delaware ASLA Chapter contacted DEP to voice its concern regarding this restriction of landscape architecture practice. The February 27, 2007, reply from the DEP acknowledged the “capacity” of landscape architects to perform some stormwater management, but it still left much unclear. The chapter and the Pennsylvania State Board of Landscape Architects worked together to clarify the scope of practice of landscape architects. The board sent DEP a letter, then followed up with a listing of the structural BMPs that indicated whether each project type is within the scope of practice of landscape architecture.

The combined effort of PA/DE ASLA and the state licensing board provided the DEP with the information necessary to reverse its previous policy. The ASLA Licensure Committee is currently working to develop a tool kit of resources for chapters and individual landscape architects who face similar barriers to practice at the state and local level. Chapters are encouraged to contact Government Affairs Director Julia Lent when facing similar barriers where they practice the profession.



■関連サイト

ASLAサイト:http://www.asla.org/land/2008/0205/state.html

http://www.asla.org/members/govtaffairs/licensure/pdf/BoardBMPChart2007.pdf

ペンシルバニア州環境局資料:http://www.asla.org/members/govtaffairs/licensure/pdf/PA_Stormwater.pdf

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