Big changes on the Klamath River as the largest dam removal project in US history gets underway. And GreenWorks is a part of the effort! We’re re/designing five recreation sites along the river and working on the adjacent Heritage Trail as four hydroelectric dams are removed along the California-Oregon border. Our own Paul Agrimis is quoted in OPB’s recent article.
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During 2019, Greenworks has been a part of some exciting environmentally friendly street planning, design and construction efforts. Living in Portland, it can be easy to take for granted the transformative capacity that a well designed right-of-way has. There are so many great examples in the metro area! Part of the joy we take from the work we do, however, is bringing our experience in green infrastructure, streetscape and transportation to smaller communities seeking responsible and timeless solutions to roadway enhancement. It is truly motivating and rewarding to team with a community seeking to enhance and emphasize the place making capacity of their public streets.
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One of our colleagues has been setting aside some of her favorite pieces as the GreenWorks office goes paperless.
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GreenWorks alum Cory Gallo (‘04) stopped in to have lunch with us last week. He’s in town researching urban farms for a project at Mississippi State University, where he’s now an associate professor. He recently won a national award from The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. As things tend to do around here, we nerded-out on stormwater.
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We’re excited to introduce you to a new framework from USGBC that compliments LEED projects with comprehensive landscape and site design—and we’re the first firm in Oregon to offer it.
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It was a perfect rainy day to talk some stormwater shop with the three University of Oregon graduate students who joined us as part of the School of Landscape Architecture’s 2019 Shadow Mentor day.
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Our resident plant expert, Bhronwhyn Dean, graciously organized a lunch-and-learn focusing on plants with winter interest in our recent “Greenworks Plants Group” session. Drawing from inspiration in her own garden, Bhronwhyn brought in a vase filled with fern cuttings, flowers, woody branches, and shrubs for the day. We discussed the idea that ‘winter interest’ can include far more than color, including ornamental bark, color of stems, winter outlines/tracery, grasses, winter flowers, texture, fruits / berries, and fragrance as part of our discussion.
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The American Public Works national awards program was established to recognize outstanding individuals, groups, and chapters representing the best in the public works profession. This year, Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (CCWTP) was the recipient of the Project of the Year Award in the Environment category in projects more than $75 million. Working with MWA Architects and Brown and Caldwell, GreenWorks developed the landscape buffer concept to visually and physically screen the treatment plant.
Greenworks is honored to be working with the City of Independence to implement the vision set forth in the Open Space Master Plan completed in 2015. The current work on Independence Landing improves a key piece of public waterfront located immediately south of Riverview Park, the flagship of the Independence park system. Designed in tandem with the large waterfront re-development on the old Valley Concrete Site, Independence Landing is one piece in a larger orchestrated effort to revitalize downtown Independence and support commercial growth.
Conceived of as an extension of Riverview Park, Independence landing will offer users a number of passive recreation opportunities. Included in the plan are a waterfront multi-use trail with a river overlook, a shaded patio and lawn space able to accommodate flexible programming, a sizable restoration planting area braided by soft surface trails and a grove of shade trees in which the user can find informal, private seating areas. This implementation of the Open Space Master Plan sets the stage for the continued expansion of improved public waterfront southward along the Willamette River and strengthens the downtown, pedestrian connections to the waterfront.
The success of this project has been a measure of how well the project team has worked together. Shawn Irvine and David Clyne with the City of Independence and Steve Ward with Westech Engineering have been instrumental in guiding the design process, representing the diverse community of Independence and streamlining the construction of this exciting new park space.
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