Low Impact Sustainable Development: Benefits for Owners, Local Governments and Everyone Else Seminar
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Understanding Principles of Low Impact Development
Understanding the status quo: conventional development
and stormwater management
Drawbacks of conventional approaches
Origins of low impact development (LID) concept
Principles of LID
• Stormwater
• Natural resource conservation
• Circulation and site design
• Infrastructure access
Benefits of LID for builders and municipalities
• Environmental benefits
• Public
• Municipal
• Developers
Launching LID Locally
Reviewing federal and state codes and guidance
Identifying local partners, synergies and incentives
Exploring LID resources
Sustainable Onsite Stormwater Management
Reducing disturbance and impervious surfaces
Maximizing filtration and infiltration
Minimizing conveyance off site
Onsite Stormwater Best Management Practices
Choosing and designing best management practices (BMPs)
• Bioretention
• Dry wells
• Filter strips
• Vegetated buffers
• Level spreaders
• Vegetated swales
• Rain barrels
• Rain gardens
• Cisterns
• Infiltration trenches
• Pervious concrete/permeable pavers
Beyond Stormwater: Additional Site Design
and Development Considerations
Avoiding greenfields
Repurposing existing sites
Density and circulation
Walkability and bikeability
Connectivity and Infrastructure Access
Land use master plan
Access to transportation services
Public water supply and sewage systems
Major neighborhood stakeholders
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours
Architects
7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours (HSW)
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours (HSW)
7.0 LA CES HSW PDHs
Floodplain Managers
7.0 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 continuing education hours to engineers, architects and landscape architects (HSW) in most states, including Virginia. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Virginia.
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and by the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 7.0 HSW PDHs. Full attendance is required for course attendance reporting to AIA/CES and LA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this event for 7.0 CECs.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been preapproved in any state with contractor continuing education requirements.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire program. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Speakers
Christopher Sonne
Natural Resources Design Inc.Director of Engineering Services at Natural Resources Design Inc.
Mr. Sonne is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, as well as a LEED and SITES accredited professional. He is director of Engineering Services at Natural Resources Design Inc., a sustainable site design firm based in DC. Mr. Sonne is a Level 2 instructor in the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP) program and co-teaches a sustainable landscape graduate-level design course at George Washington University. With over 33 years of design and project management experience, his philosophy is that site designs should perform their required functions while also enhancing the aesthetics and overall function of the projects they serve.