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ReScape Heat Qualification Training (HQT) - Online + Onsite Practicum
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PDT
Category: ReScape Professional Trainings
ReScape Heat Qualification Training (HQT) - Online + Onsite Practicum

Cost: 
  • $695 Early Bird until July 12th
  • $695 Group Rate (please email [email protected])
  • $745 starting July 13th
Dates: September 12, 19, 26 & October 3, 2024
Time: 9 am - 3:00 pm  

The first three training days will be conducted in a live, online format. The final training day will be an in-person practicum work day.

ReScape’s new training, the Heat Qualification Training (HQT) provides landscape professionals with the background, technical training and tools to address and mitigate the expected and ongoing increases in local and regional temperatures. Rooted in each of ReScape’s 8 Principles, you will learn about regenerative landscape practices and policies to tackle the challenges posed by our changing climate and safeguard local watersheds, conserve precious resources, and foster the growth of native habitats. The training includes methodologies in urban and community forestry, regenerative planting strategies and tree care protocols.   

Benefits of Heat Qualification Training 
The HQT is offered as a 4-day course (3 days classroom and 1 day practicum) and provides professionals with:  
  • An understanding of the causes, implications and possible mitigation measures we can employ in our cities from expected steady increased temperatures  
  • Technical information regarding local and state ordinances and policies that address climate change and hotter temperatures 
  • A holistic approach following ReScape’s regenerative, whole systems framework to the design and construction of public and private landscapes, specifically to address increased heat effects in our cities and landscapes  
  • A deeper understanding of plant and tree physiology and ability of specific plants to survive and adapt to hotter and drier environments  
  • Hands-on participation in a community-based urban forestry event  
  • Tools and resources for choosing materials and technologies that sequester carbon more quickly, and decrease GHG emissions 
  • Tools and techniques for establishing design and maintenance guides    
  • Competitive advantage as a ReScape Heat Qualified Professional and leader in the landscape design and maintenance marketplace, including assisting public agencies in implementing their Climate Action and Community Resilience Plans.  
  • Continuing Education Units for external certifications and qualifications from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL) and more. CEUs pending approval.  

Attendees from all areas of California are welcome. 

Who Should Attend this Training
  • Landscape architects, designers  
  • City planners, designers 
  • City, public agency, municipality policy advocates 
  • Anyone responsible for programs, policies and procedures, compliance  
  • Maintenance Teams 
  • Urban Forestry Departments 
  • Arborists, Tree Care Businesses 
  • Asset, finance, and property managers, insurance agents 
  • Commercial/institutional property and land managers 
  • Affordable Housing Landscape Managers 
  • CII Landscaping Managers who design and/or maintain multi-family homes, hospitals, school properties, and other large buildings, properties and/or their landscapes 
  • Anyone responsible for programs, policies and procedures, compliance of above 

Register Here