Installation Extravaganza for Landscape Architects/Designers

The BCSLA in conjunction with 5 of its Manufacturing partners are putting on a very special event for Landscape Architects, Designers and municipalities. We're putting on an afternoon of installation demonstrations for 5 different sectors of the profession. You can get your hands dirty or stand back and enjoy in what promises to be a very informative afternoon of learning.

The event takes place at Bedrock Natural Stone's fabrication facility in Coquitlam on June 10th, 2026. Here is an outline of the different manufacturers attending the event and what you'll be learning:

Bedrock Natural Stone - www.bedrocknaturalstone.com

The team at Bedrock will be giving you a tour of their fabrication facility, you'll see how we cut, shape and finish natural stone in a multitude of ways taking you from the raw block straight out of the quarry to the finished hardscape/bench or feature. If you have had the tour before, we'll go into some more in depth applications for finishing stone for slip resistency and look that will improve your knowledge.

Marathon Surfaces - Marathon Surfaces: Recycled Athletic Surfaces

Marathon Surfaces: From foundation to finish - explore LANDSAFE PIP Rubber Safety Surfacing with a live installation demo, expert guidance on base specifications, and a showcase of colour ratios and inlaid design possibilities.

Romex Hardscapes - www.romexhardscapes.com

ROMEX Hardscapes will be providing a hands on demonstration on large 5' x 5' temporary surfaces of our diverse range of permeable bedding, jointing and gravel binding options which can be utilised to tackle a variety of hardscape challenges such a stormwater management, ease of maintenance and building long-term, extremely durable hardscape solutions.

Citygreen Urban Landscape Solutions - Citygreen - Home

We'll assist Citygreen in laying out a 20' x 20' Soil cell matrix, we'll get into the installation of their system around pipes and underground infrastructure and talk about how to link their structure to open planting areas to give tree roots even more Soil Volume. We'll also discuss Soil cells in Stormwater Management situations and how they can help with that.

Veratec Engineered Products - Landscape Soil - Veratec Engineered Products

Look at Soil composition and learn why different soils are used for different applications. We'll look at Soils for Urban tree growth vs soils for planting vs a fast draining mix for Stormwater Management.

We'll be picking everyone up in buses from outside the Devils Elbow pub in Vancouver (562 Beatty Street) at 11.30am on Wednesday, June 10. Then dropping everyone off at 5.30pm at the same spot. There will be a BBQ upon arrival and the tour/education will begin at 1pm sharp.

The cost for the event is $21 per person - Click register to take you to the Eventbrite page!