[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Convergent President, Robert Adair will be a guest speaker at “2014 Low Impact Development (LID) in Houston” on April 3, 2014. The workshop will be held at The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED) at Rice University.
This one day event will cover the theory and practice of LID in Houston and will have a distinguished group of speakers that include academia. These include Dr. Phil Bedient, Rice University; Dr. Michael Deitz, The University of Connecticut; Dr. Franco Montalto, Drexel University and Dr. Allen Davis, The University of Maryland; the engineering community including Charles Penland, Walter P Moore and Bob Adair, EcoServices; and architects including Joe Webb, Webb Architects; and Kathleen English, English Architects; We hope to advance the state of knowledge in Houston for LID as it relates to the high intensity rainfalls and runoffs experienced in the Gulf Coast.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]