Issue 3, 2017

esign interloc ® 2017 ISSUE 3 core research | FEATURE STORY By David R. Smith E InterlockDesign.org 18 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION PERFORMANCE SERIES CASE STUDIES The LA Foundation has assembled a tremendous collection of case studies documenting economic, environmen- tal and social performance of specific projects and landscape systems. This information is important to an increas- ing number of practicing landscape architects who use performance metrics on various landscape systems for clients. One of those systems evalu- ated in various high-profile landscape ICPI Foundation nears $1 million in total grants stablished in 2000, the ICPI Foundation for Education & Research provides funding to address key research questions enabling manufacturers, designers and contractors to make, design, build and maintain better segmental concrete pavements. The updates to follow demonstrate a wide range of projects and studies the Foundation supports. architecture projects is segmental concrete pavements. An ICPI-curated collection of concrete paver projects published by the LA Foundation can be found at www.landscape performance.org/collections/ segmental-pavement. Check this site in the coming months for a learning module on perfor- mance of segmental concrete paving. This presentation reviews tools to measure economic, environmental and societal performance benefits of segmental concrete paving.