Eberly & Associates has been recently acquired by Pape-Dawson Engineers, LLC, allowing Pape-Dawson to expand its resources crafting innovative designs for commercial projects in the Atlanta and greater Georgia market. This article explores some recent thoughts published by Pape-Dawson. To read the full article at Pape-Dawson’s website, click here.
In this recent article posted on Pape-Dawson’s website, several Pape-Dawson employees weigh in on the ways that landscape architects are addressing modern challenges for clients, and elaborate on why the field of landscape architecture is an often misunderstood profession.
Exploring the Versatility of Landscape Architecture
“[…] There’s such a wide range of what a landscape architect can do.” explains landscape architect and RaganSmith Chief Marketing Officer Alan Thompson, PLA, LEED AP, citing that the breadth of expertise that landscape architecture covers as an industry leads to common misunderstandings about the profession. Beyond considering outdoor aesthetics (though that is one important component!), landscape architecture encompasses everything from safety requirements to functionality, geology, geography, project management, and navigating various legal and zoning requirements in the various public and private spaces that projects take place.
How Pape-Dawson is Addressing Modern Landscape Architecture Challenges
The article continues to explore the different common challenges that they’re seeing in some of their clients. Here are just a few of the types of challenges mentioned:
- Resilient design – designing spaces that are able to withstand harsh weather and prevent its potentially destructive effects
- Housing shortages – addressing the increasing housing shortage in the United States not just by creating more livable units, but focusing on making them feel inviting and ensuring they address the needs of the tenants and the community.
- Growth resistance in communities – stepping in to help educate the public and community decision-makers about the value of “intelligent growth”, as Alan puts it, referring to using creative design to help expand communities as opposed to uncontrolled sprawl and congestion it creates.
To read more about the other challenges that Pape-Dawson’s landscape architects are addressing and to learn how the versatility of the profession is helping to tackle these challenges head-on, continue over to Pape-Dawson to read the rest of the article.
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