LandDesign Expands Land Development Services with Civil Engineering
Just in time for the holidays, LandDesign has checked a big item off our wish list! One of our strategic goals is to better serve our clients by growing our […]
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LandDesign Recognizes Growing Project Leaders and Talent with New Promotions
At LandDesign, our people are what makes us great. Their dedication to producing the best work, willingness to push boundaries and passion for providing the highest quality of service, makes […]
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LandDesign Recognizes Two New Partners, a Principal, and Executive Director
What does it mean to be a firm that transcends generations? At LandDesign, it means we are committed to evolving our practice to be relevant and valuable to our clients […]
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Designing a Better Lifestyle for our Employees
By: Alexis Rosamilia, HR Generalist LandDesign is in the business of creating places that matter, places that contribute to peoples’ health and happiness. One of our priorities in HR is […]
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LandDesign Launches Innovation Incubator Program, MatterLab
At LandDesign, we want to be the Best Dang Design Firm ever. As we continue to embody that motto, we are always thinking of new ways to grow big dreams, […]
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Expanding the Definition of Trails
Great outdoor spaces succeed because they provide the opportunity to create meaningful and memorable experiences. Crafting such experiences begin with asking — “what will people do, see and feel in […]
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Playgrounds: Where Education and Nature Collide
LandDesign’s Susan England found her passion in an unlikely place. Growing up, Susan always had a deep respect for nature, spending her childhood playing in the woods, camping and hiking. […]
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Where Art Meets Science: A Left-brained Journey into a Creative Career
I came into landscape architecture through a process of elimination. I started college with a strong mindset that I was going to major in math or science, particularly biology. I […]
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The Role of Civil Engineers and Landscape Architects in Creating Safer Communities
According to the Charlotte Transportation Department (CDOT), there is an average of one pedestrian death every other week in this city. In response, the Vision Zero plan, implemented by CDOT, […]
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The Catalog Didn’t Kill Retail, and Neither will the Internet
Let’s get one thing straight, retail isn’t dying, it’s evolving. Before the internet and Amazon dominated the retail industry, there was the catalog. The catalog disrupted the retail industry, giving […]
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Challenging the Engineering Stereotype
— Megan Schultz, PE February 17-23 is a week set aside to highlight and celebrate the achievements of engineers and encourage youth to pursue careers in the A/C/E (architecture/construction/engineering) industry. […]
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Inspired By Design
2018 was a year of inspiration! We designed the heck out of some places and made them matter too. But, before we get to designing our way through 2019, we’d […]
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Certified Best: Who Says?
Our people do! And honestly, it makes sense, because they are the ones that make it so great. As the marketing team for the firm, we’re uniquely skilled at noticing […]
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Retail Centers don’t have a Design Problem, They have an Idea Problem
Retail centers all over the country are seeing big-box stores like Macy’s and Sears close their doors due to increasingly dropping sales. Without these anchors bringing customers in the door, […]
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Lincoln at Tinner Hill Wins NAIOP VA Award of Excellence for Mixed Use Project
The NAIOP VA Awards recognizes new contributions to Northern Virginia by the commercial, industrial and mixed use real estate community. Lincoln at Tinner Hill received the Award of Excellence for […]
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Brian Forster, PE Named Principal at LandDesign
When Brian Forster joined LandDesign as Director of Engineering in Orlando at this time last year, he was looking for a challenge. Since then, his contributions to growing the three-year-old […]
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Stormwater as a Vehicle for Change
At LandDesign, we strive to understand the connection between our built environment and nature, and how we can create healthier communities by marrying the two. We take the challenge to […]
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LandDesign Receives Charlotte Business Journal’s Healthiest Employer Award
We’ve done it again! We are proud to announce that we have placed in the top 5 for Charlotte Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers for the second year in a row. […]
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In Memoriam // Stephanie Powell
Stephanie Powell was a humble trailblazer. She joined LandDesign in 2000 as chief financial officer. It was a new position the firm created specifically for her. In 2003, she became […]
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What Do Our Design Engineers Value?
In honor of National Engineers Week, we’re highlighting the values of our civil engineers through designs that resulted from our integrated practices. INNOVATION At […]
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Larry LeMaster joins LandDesign as Chief Operating Officer
Larry LeMaster, CPA has joined LandDesign as Chief Operating Officer (COO). With over 25 years of operations and financial leadership experience in the architecture and engineering industries, Larry is an […]
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Infrastructure Maintenance is Key to Managing Stormwater Runoff
Stormwater runoff is the number one cause of stream impairment in urban areas. Even before hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria produced catastrophic flooding in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico last […]
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LandDesign: The First 40 Years
LandDesign was founded in January of 1978 on the belief that working hard and caring more, matter. As LandDesign’s founder, Larry Best, will tell you, there was no grand plan […]
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Transforming Tysons [Land8x8]
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on Land8. “Why just make something, when you can create something that matters?” That’s the firm slogan that Stephanie Pankiewicz, Partner at LandDesign, considers […]
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Leveraging the Outdoors in Workplace Design
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Today’s workplaces are a notable departure from those of the cubicle-filled past. With a better understanding of how design affects the […]
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Coal Ash Wastescapes: Advocating for Design Remediation
By: Lauren Delbridge, LA Designer. Originally posted on LAF News. Landscape architecture naturally combines aspects of science, engineering, ecological understanding, and design in a way that sets us apart from scientists, […]
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Beautifying Alexandria
Every year the Alexandria Beautification Commission canvases the city looking for properties and projects that represent the best beautification efforts in Alexandria. Beautification includes improvements to a community encompassing landscaping, […]
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A Walkable City is a Better City
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Intrinsic to the success of cities and the quality of life they offer is how people move within them. For the […]
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Urban Design is Affecting Our Brains
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Design affects the brain. We know this intuitively, as we get frustrated when poor wayfinding causes us to get us lost […]
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LandDesign Expands to Boulder, CO
The latest addition to our western expansion is officially open! Brent Martin, PLA, has relocated from our Washington, D.C. office to lead the Boulder, CO office as Managing Principal. This […]
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LandDesign Grows Leadership with Five New Promotions
LandDesign has built its nearly 40-year reputation on high-quality client service, a passion for the work we do, and talented people who make the process fun. Last month, some 25 […]
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Dallas Office Nominated for 2017 Best Places to Work
Open floor plans, an abundance of natural light, foosball games, watermelon eating competitions, outdoor fire place gatherings, beer:30s, a writeable surface wall – just a few of the items you’ll […]
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Where Should We Plant Urban Trees?
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Cities are generally both warmer and more polluted than non-urban areas, as paved surfaces absorb heat, leading to increased energy consumption, […]
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Performance Metrics for Sustainable Landscapes
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Today’s landscapes are asked to perform much more than functional or aesthetic services: they filter and reduce stormwater runoff, provide wildlife […]
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2017 Intern Class Kicks-Off Their First Week with a Design Charrette
By: Emma Davis, Marketing Intern New people, new office, new project, and for some, a new city. This is what our newest class of interns took on as they […]
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Bike-Friendly Places Matter
Alison participates in National Bike to Work Day each year with co-workers in what she describes as “a bike gang of landscape architects rolling deep through the streets of Alexandria.” […]
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Matthew Maury’s New Playground will Spur Student Success
What started as a 2014 project for us, Maury Playground is officially open for the Matthew Maury Elementary School and community! Landscape Architects, Gabriela Cañamar Clark and Susan England, […]
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A Tale of Two Tree Saves
Saving trees was a major priority in establishing the vision of LPL Financial’s new campus on the outskirts of Kingsley Town Center in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The site was […]
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Dallas Multi-Family Project Recognized with Best Outdoor Living Space Award
LandDesign is proud to announce Discovery at the Realm, our luxury apartment project in Dallas-Fort Worth, has won two Dallas Builders Association Awards: Best Outdoor Living Space and Best Architectural Design-Multi-Family Community, […]
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The Livable City Revolution
By: Stephanie Roa, LA Designer. Originally posted on DeepRoot. Around the globe, cities are rediscovering their industrial land. Once sustained by industry, in some places, much of this urban infrastructure […]
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The Impact of Engineering
Last week, the National Society of Professional Engineers celebrated National Engineers Week; an opportunity to demonstrate that engineering is more than just solving problems using math and science and to […]
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