Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat

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On newly developed sites only areas in close proxmity to the building and infrastructure can be disturbed. On previously developed sites some site area must be protected or restored with native or adaptive vegetation. One point.

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By CSI Division, Section

• 07: Thermal and Moisture Protection (1 Sections, 1 Products)
• 31: Earthwork (2 Sections, 4 Products)
• 32: Exterior Improvements (4 Sections, 23 Products)

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	Ecosystem Services EBN: BackPage Primer - October 2012		First Three Sustainable Sites Projects Certified EBN: Newsbrief - April 2012
	Biophilia in Practice: Buildings that Connect People with Nature EBN: Feature - July 2006		Development and Nature: Enhancing Ecosystems Where We Build EBN: Feature - February 2001
	Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors EBN: From the Library - November 2000		Trees and Development: A Technical Guide to Preservation of Trees During Land Development EBN: From the Library - April 1999

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Alberici Corporate Headquarters (110,000 sq. feet) (10,000 sq. meters) Commercial office Aldo Leopold Legacy Center (12,000 sq. feet) (1,100 sq. meters) Interpretive Center, Commercial office Audubon Center at Debs Park (5,000 sq. feet) (470 sq. meters) Interpretive Center, Recreation, Park Baca/Dlo'ay azhi Community School (79,000 sq. feet) (7,300 sq. meters) K-12 education CBF Merrill Environmental Center (32,000 sq. feet) (3,000 sq. meters) Interpretive Center, Commercial office

Alberici Corporate Headquarters This project entails the adaptive reuse of an existing manufacturing plant into a corporate headquar...

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Periodicals
	Landscape Architecture: The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects American Society of Landscape Architects, publisher		New Urban News: Covering design and development of human-scale neighborhoods New Urban News, publisher
Books
	Sustainable Landscape Construction, 2nd edition: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors by J. William Thompson et al. (2007)		How to Build Paths, Steps & Footbridges: The Fundamentals of Planning, Designing, and Constructing Creative Walkways in Your Home Landscape by Peter Jeswald (2005)
	Waterwise Landscaping with Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Xeriscape Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region, California, and the Desert Southwest, 2nd edition by James M. Knopf (2005)		Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas by Julie Campoli et al. (2004)

PRODUCTS Profile Hydro-Mulch ARTICLES Ecosystem Services EBN: BackPage Primer - October 2012 More articles CASE STUDIES Alberici Corporate Headquarters Overland, MO More case studies BIBLIOGRAPHY Landscape Architecture : The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects American Society of Landscape Architects, publisher More bibliography items

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