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September 21 and 22
2 days, 2 disciplines, 2 ways to participate – defining our professional roles and uniting to build more equitable, accessible and inspired communities.
#2GETHER2022
An effective project design team consists of any number of professionals that bring unique skills to the table for the purpose of collaborative inspiration and problem solving. Obviously, planners and landscape architects each have their specific skills, but so to do other professionals. But can vendors be a contributing and trusted member of the team? Mathew Regimbal of Strybos Barron King Landscape Architecture was the project lead for the Zoom Zoom drive-in storage facility in Markham. This site posed a number of design challenges, including tight site constraints, poor soil conditions, large grade changes, and an adjacent high-rise building that sat directly on the property line. Mathew called upon Glenn Herold of Oaks Landscape Products to help develop economical retaining wall design options for several locations around the site, as ideas presented to date were otherwise extremely expensive or conflicted with utilities/structures. The design approach that Mathew and Glenn came up with involved sheet pilings topped with a grade beam (a reinforced concrete slab) along with segmental retaining wall units supported by stabilized backfill. Upon successful completion of the project, the installation became a featured project on the National Concrete Masonry Association website. The session will present the projects as a case study to highlight how everyone from planners and landscape architects through to engineers and vendors can all work smarter together to arrive at the best solution for the client. The balance of the session is to share ideas through audience interaction on what planners and landscape architects expect of each other and of other design team members.