Biohabitats As the Township's Greenway and Trails Engineer

801 Burrows Run Road Chadds Ford, PA 19317 (610) 388-1300 Fax (610) 388-0461 Website: www.kennett.pa.us Email: [email protected]

SUMMARY OF BIOHABITATS TEAMS AND QUALIFICATIONS

As a result of the separation between Penn Trails and Kennett Township, the Kennett Greenway needs a new Trail Engineer. The Kennett Greenway is an initiative to physically connect the Kennett community to its natural beauty through the formation of a 10- to14-mile pedestrian and bicycle loop. This network of trails linking Kennett’s preserved open spaces, recreational facilities, and other community assets, will be interconnected, safe, and well-maintained.1 This Township collaboration includes Kennett Trails & Sidewalks Committee and the Land Conservation Advisory Committee, the Kennett Borough and several private non-profit organizations, including Kennett Trails Alliance and The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County (TLC).

We recommend the new Trails Engineer for this initiative be Biohabitats. They are an environmental design and consulting firm who was founded on the principles of restoring the earth’s resources and inspiring ecological stewardship. Their team for Kennett Township includes two subconsultants: Meliora, an engineering firm who is committed to sustainability, and Unknown Studio, a landscape architecture practice that strives to create experientially powerful places that are durable, resilient, and timeless. All three companies are highly qualified, have an incredible staff who are experienced in working with Greenways and trails, boast a litany of awards and accolades, and have worked locally in and around the Kennett area.

Biohabitats applies the science of ecology to restore ecosystems, conserve habitat, and regenerate the natural systems that sustain all life on Earth.2 They understand that earth’s resources are finite and, therefore steer projects toward sustainable designs while preserving the “sense of place” unique to each community they work with. Biohabitats recently worked as the ecological consultant for the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art Master Plan, led by Jennifer Dowdell. Their work on the Floyds Ford Greenway Master Plan helped the project earn a Merit Award for Master Planning in the National Park Service’s “Designing the Parks” competition.3

Meliora is proud to be an award-winning firm that provides the engineering to implement the vision of their clients. Their mission is to “create better relationships with our environment by developing engineering solutions that build respectfully and enhance our communities, protecting and restoring our natural resources.”4 Meliora is also very familiar with our area. Notably, they have worked with Longwood Gardens, the Stroud Water Research Center, Mt. Cuba, New Bolton Veterinary Laboratory, the Brandywine Conservancy, and Meliora worked with the Borough of Kennett Square on their Sidewalk and Streetscape Improvements Project that was completed in 2104.

1 https://kennettgreenway.com/ 2 Kennett Township Greenway Trail Master Services Agreement, page 4 3 Kennett Township Greenway Trail Master Services Agreement, page 13 4 Kennett Township Greenway Trail Master Services Agreement, page 24 801 Burrows Run Road Chadds Ford, PA 19317 (610) 388-1300 Fax (610) 388-0461 Website: www.kennett.pa.us Email: [email protected]

The second subconsultant Biohabitats recommends specifically for this Kennett Greenway project is Unknown Design. While they are a relatively new practice that was cofounded in 2019 by Claire Agre, the experience she and her associates bring to Unknown Studio, and to Kennett Township, is anything but unknown. Agre led the landscape design for the $90 million Longwood Main Fountain Garden and Longwood’s 40 Year Master Plan. We have the luxury of seeing firsthand how they, through the craft of design and engaged collaboration, “amplify the culture and ecology of the places in which we live.”5

In conclusion, all three of these companies, led by Biohabitats, seamlessly fold into the direction and desires of Kennett Township to preserve the beauty of the landscape while being as responsible and environmentally sustainable as possible. The mission of the Kennett Greenway is to connect the Kennett community to its natural beauty while promoting health, safety, a respect for the environment and a sense of community6. Biohabitats, Meliora, and Unknown Studios truly is the dream team for this initiative and will enable the Kennett Greenway to be an incredible experience for generations to come.

5 Kennett Township Greenway Trail Master Services Agreement, page 42 6 https://kennettgreenway.com/mission/ KENNETT TOWNSHIP GREENWAY TRAIL MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT April 28, 2020

22 April 2020 Statement of Team Qualifications for the KENNETT TOWNSHIP GREENWAY Landscape Architecture & Public Engagement Services

Washington Avenue Green Design-Build

Firm Profile

Contact Committed to Sustainability Through Thoughtful Design Meliora Design 259 Morgan St. Phoenixville, PA 19460 Founded in 2007 with a focus on sustainable site design and water (610) 933-0123 resources management, Meliora Design’s capabilities have expanded www.melioradesign.com [email protected] to provide a wide array of services to our clients. An award-winning engineering firm, Meliora specializes in civil, structural, and water resources Services Provided engineering. Our commitment to sustainability, collaboration, and innovation Civil Engineering and Sustainability spans across all disciplines and projects. Meliora Design‘s experienced team • Sustainable Site Design • Stormwater Management of engineers, scientists and planners value an integrated design process for • Water and Sewer Infrastructure creative, cost-effective solutions. • Permitting and Regulatory Compliance • Alternative Wastewater and Water Reuse Devoted to Finding Solutions for a Sustainable Future • Environmental Site Assessment • Educational Workshops, Charettes, Meliora Design’s mission is to create better relationships with our and Community Engagement environment by developing engineering solutions that build respectfully and • Construction Administration enhance our communities, protecting and restoring our natural resources. Water Resources Design and Planning We are privileged to serve a wide range of clients including government • Low Impact Development and Green agencies, universities, commercial developers, institutions, community Infrastructure • Stormwater Master Plans and Manuals organizations, and advocacy groups. • MS4 Planning • Resiliency Planning and Design We provide the engineering to implement the vision. • Stream and Floodplain Management • Stream Restoration and Modeling Meliora Design is a registered Women’s Business Enterprise • Water Quality Modeling and Monitoring (WBE) in most states and major cities of the mid-Atlantic Region. Structural Engineering • Institutional, Educational, Commercial, Residential Buildings • Bridges • Railroad Electrification • Construction Related Services melioradesign guided by nature The Stables Building 2081 Clipper Park Road Baltimore, MD 21211 410.554.0156 April 28, 2020 biohabitats.com Kennett Township Attn: Eden Ratliff, Township Manager 801 Burrows Run Road Chadds Ford, PA 19317

RE: Kennett Township Greenway Trail Master Services Agreement Biohabitats Proposal No. P20129.01

Dear Mr. Ratliff and the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors: Biohabitats is pleased to submit this qualifications package to Kennett Township in support of the development of a Master Services Agreement for ecologically-based design consultation for the 14-mile Kennett Greenway Trail loop. As a mission-based environmental design and consulting firm, Biohabitats’ practice is founded on restoring the earth’s natural resources and inspiring ecological stewardship and connection for our communities. Our team includes Unknown Studio, a renowned landscape architecture firm known for thoughtful design and holistic community engagement, as well as Meliora Design, a local woman-owned engineering firm that has deep roots in the community and decades of local expertise in hydrology and civil engineering. Our multidisciplinary team has worked together previously to create holistic and sound designs that balance function with form. We understand this opportunity to work with Kennett Township is focused on design and consulting services for the 14-mile Kennett Greenway Trail loop, where our team will advise on environmentally sound best management practices and design, to support a resilient community asset that respects the importance of functional ecology. Once a Master Services Agreement is signed, the Biohabitats-led team will develop scopes of work specific to projects along the Greenway associated with ecological design. While we understand that there are a handful of initial design priorities, like the Magnolia RR underpass and the Chandler Mill Run design, Biohabitats recommends that the team start our effort with a review and refinement of the existing Greenway Master Plan. This will ensure that science-based ecological considerations for best practices and resilient design have been applied to the full greenway in a holistic approach. A baseline ecological understanding is needed to better address opportunities and constraints, while creating a community amenity that is inclusive, safe, and accessible. We look forward to working with you! Sincerely, BIOHABITATS

Jennifer Dowdell Senior Landscape Ecological Planner & Designer, Project Manager 667.401.8472 [email protected]

Restore the Earth & Inspire Ecological Stewardship Qualifications Biohabitats 4 Meliora Design 23 Unknown Studio 41

West Chester University Landscape Master Plan KENNETT GREENWAY SHARED USE PATH & TRAILS SYSTEM

We apply the science Firm Profile of ecology to restoring A successful greenway master plan requires not only a comprehensive ecosystems, conserving understanding of the cultural and physical components of the site, but also a habitat, and regenerating the thorough understanding of the natural resources and ecological processes that natural systems that sustain give each greenway a “sense of place” within its greater bioregion. Biohabitats has worked with municipalities, public agencies and conservation organizations to all life on Earth. seamlessly integrate environmental conservation and sustainable design initiatives into greenway master plans that provide meaningful ecological benefits. At Biohabitats, our entire practice has focused on conservation planning, ecological restoration and regenerative design for over 30 years. Our approach to projects embraces holistic patterns, processes and structure within the landscape. It respects the complex networks of unique ecosystems, community structure and species interactions, while acknowledging human participation as a critical component of greenways. And it seeks to always ensure that we are living our core values of revering wild nature, healing compassionately, practicing wholeness, acting with uncompromising integrity, and evolving to be the best. At our core, we are seeking in every project to restore and steward our earth’s finite resources. Conservation and restoration work is strongest and most resilient when it is

above: North Delaware Riverfront done with an interdisciplinary approach. To respond effectively to our client’s Greenway—Lardner’s Point Park conservation and restoration challenges, Biohabitats has purposefully built

a multidisciplinary organization. Our team of over 60 In addition, Biohabitats has long been active in projects in professionals includes ecologists, water resource specialists, Southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring New Jersey. Most engineers, biologists, natural resource planners, wetland recently we were the ecological consultant on the Brandywine scientists, foresters, soil scientists, landscape architects, Conservancy and Museum Master Plan along with our fluvial geomorphologists, GIS analysts, and CAD specialists. colleagues at Meliora Design, as well as supporting their work Beyond our team we also work seamlessly with other firms at the Stroud Water Resource Center. We were the ecological that share our values and our passion for resilient design. consultant on the West Chester University Landscape Master We routinely work with allied landscape architecture and Plan, as well as lead planner on the stormwater and landscape engineering firms like Unknown Studio and Meliora Design to master plan at Rowan University, along with dozens of help integrate landscape ecological processes to protect and projects in Philadelphia, from the Delaware River Greenway to restore biodiversity; apply ecological restoration measures to Wissahickon stream restoration projects. improve the health and viability of the land, and to introduce We understand the importance of preserving the “sense of green infrastructure best practices that facilitate people place” communities have worked so hard to establish and reconnecting with nature. Robust community engagement maintain. Sustainability is about a long-term commitment and meaningful stakeholder participation form the backbone and full integration of functional natural systems. In our of much of our work. experience, implementing a successful greenway plan Biohabitats has helped a wide range of organizations develop requires a comprehensive understanding of the cultural regional, watershed-based, and coastal master plans that and physical components of the site, but also the natural balance recreation with protection of water quality and resources and ecological processes that provide a sense of natural resources. Currently, Biohabitats is the ecological place within the greater community as well as host of valuable consultant on the Chattahoochee Greenway Study in Atlanta, ecosystem services. It respects the complex networks where we are leading an ecological assessment of the 100 of unique ecosystems, community structure and species miles of river valley, which is the focus of the visioning for interactions, while acknowledging human experience and a future greenway corridor. Elsewhere, our experience multi-modal networks as a critical components of place. ranges from riparian and coastal corridor planning for vast open spaces, such as for Colorado Open Lands and the Nature Conservancy, to bringing ecology and environmental equity into planning projects focused on access and human experience, as in the post-industrial waterfronts of Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York City, and Louisville. With a strong cadre of water resource engineers well-versed in watershed hydrology, landscape architects, planners, and ecologists focused on coastal and riparian habitat, Biohabitats brings to the table the capacity and capabilities to address greenway planning at a range of scales.

North Delaware Riverfront Greenway—Lardner’s Point Park Baltimore City Green Network and ecological overlay studies

Project Staffing

Biohabitats team’s key staff were carefully selected for this project based on skills and experience. This organizational chart illustrates team roles, as a staffing plan. Resumes are provided on subsequent pages.

KENNETT TOWNSHIP

BIOHABITATS TEAM LEAD

Jennifer Dowdell, LEED AP Senior Landscape Ecological Planner & Designer Project Manager Brett Long, PE Water Resource Engineer

Sarah Roberts Senior Environmental Scientist

Tyler Schlachter Geographer

Bryon Salladin, CF, CA Environmental Scientist

TEAM SUBCONSULTANTS

MELIORA DESIGN UNKNOWN STUDIO

Michele Adams, PE, LEED AP Claire Agre, PLA Civil Engineer Landscape Architect Altje Macy, PE, LEED AP Nick Glase, PLA, RA, ASLA, AIA Senior Water Resources Engineer Landscape Architect/Architect Marc Henderson, PE Dana Kash Senior Water Resources Engineer Landscape Designer James Adams, PE Dave Zielnicki, PLA, BCSLA Civil/Structural Engineer/Transit Landscape Architect Laura Lord Gill, PE Erin Rudemiller Water Resources Designer Landscape Designer Elise Eggert-Crowe, PE Water Resources Designer

PROJECT MANAGER Jennifer Dowdell, leed ap

Senior Landscape Ecological Planner

REGISTRATION & TRAINING Jennifer has over 15 years experience with landscape ecology and sustainable LEED Accredited Professional design, combining an aesthetic sensibility with sound research and analysis. Highly skilled in green (living) infrastructure and landscape ecological planning, Jennifer EDUCATION integrates these principles with innovative stormwater and landscape management M.L.A., Landscape Architecture, for site design and master planning initiatives. She has honed skills in facilitation, University of Michigan including the ability to listen deeply and build consensus around project visions. B.A., Writing/History, Experience in design, writing, and advocacy provide Jennifer with a heightened Loyola University sense of the importance of information facilitation and project leadership. Her mastery of graphics and analytical tools enhances her analysis and yields compelling deliverables that effectively convey important and often complex information to a PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Society of Landscape Architects wide variety of audiences, including stakeholders and public agencies. International Association of Landscape RELEVANT PROJECTS Ecology Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art Master Plan. Chadds Ford, PA. Jennifer Soil and Water Conservation Society served as project manager for the Biohabitats team as part of a multidisciplinary planning team led by architects Cooper Robertson. As the ecological consultant, Biohabitats ensured that the site’s unique ecology and the property’s context within the Brandywine River watershed informed the master plan. Washington Avenue Green Design-Build, Philadelphia, PA. As a project landscape architect, Jennifer assisted with the initial concept development and later supported the project through illustrating the master plan concept, working on the public outreach element, and collaborating with the project artist. Rowan University Stormwater and Landscape Master Plan, Glassboro, NJ. Ms. Dowdell served as technical lead on the Master Planning portion of the two-part project for Rowan University developing a master plan for sustainable green infrastructure implementation across campus. Baltimore City Green Network Plan, Baltimore, MD. Jennifer was the technical lead and assistant project manager, providing leadership in developing the green network plan methodology through collaboration with the Biohabitats team and the City, developing the Vision Plan and associated Visual Glossary and presenting it to city staff and community, as well as managing communication.

Other Relevant Experience

» City of Atlanta Urban Ecology Framework (UEF), Atlanta, GA » City of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Parks Woodland Management Framework, Philadelphia, PA » Chattahoochee Greenway Study, The Trust for Public Land, Atlanta metro region, GA » North Delaware Riverfront Greenway—Lardner’s Point Park, Philadelphia, PA » West Chester University Landscape Master Plan, West Chester, PA » Cleveland Metroparks Acacia Reservation Ecological Master Plan, Cleveland, OH » Bergen County Parks Master Plan, Bergen County, NJ » Antioch College Village Ecological Visioning. Yellow Springs, OH » Omega Institute Master Ecological Planning & Assessment Service, Rhinebeck, NY

Brett Long, pe

Water Resource Engineer

REGISTRATION & TRAINING Brett has worked in the environmental and water resources engineering field Professional Engineer: Pennsylvania and for 15 years and developed expertise in stormwater management, stream Maryland restoration design, watershed assessment, hydrologic & hydraulic modeling, and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: GIS applications. His engineering calculations and stormwater BMPs designs have H&H Permitting Procedures, Erosion & mitigated volume, runoff rate, water quality, and thermal impacts in a numerous Sediment Control Design, Highway Drainage Design applications. Supporting these, he has prepared engineering plans, reports, specifications, and cost estimates. His knowledge of floodplain management extends Pennsylvania State University Stream Restoration Workshop I: Stream Morphology, to review of FEMA studies and preparation of FEMA Letters of Map Revision. His Assessment, and Classification experience designing, permitting, and providing construction inspection for wetland Natural Resources Conservation Service: mitigation projects gives him a solid base to support the MG2V project. WinTR-20 Project Formulation Hydrology RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Training, HEC-RAS 2D - Water Surface Modeling Training Wissahickon Creek Headwaters Stream Restoration, Lansdale, PA. Mr. Long performed field assessments and developed restoration concept plans. Following, North Carolina State - River Course 101: Stream Morphology Assessment concept approval, Mr. Long led hydrologic & hydraulic modeling efforts, restoration design, and permitting efforts. University of Virginia Ivy Corridor Phase 1 Planning and Design, Charlottesville, VA. EDUCATION M.S. Environmental Pollution Control, Biohabitats is providing stream restoration and stormwater management planning Pennsylvania State University and design services for the redevelopment of a highly visible gateway to the B.A. Environmental Studies, University of Virginia. Mr. Long assisted with the stormwater management planning, Pennsylvania State University design, and modeling components for the design of 900 linear feet of stream and integrating stormwater treatment for water quality requirements associated with the University’s stormwater permit. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Maryland Stream Restoration Association Miquon School Stream Restoration, Conshohocken, PA. Biohabitats assessed the American Society of Civil Engineers stream and watershed conditions leading to erosion, then developed a design to restore stability, ecological function, and safe access to the creek for students. Mr. Long assisted with design and prepared the clearances and permits for the project including threatened and endangered species, historic structures, erosion and sediment control, and a joint Department of Environmental Protection/Army Corps of Engineers waterways permit. Mr. Long also provided educational outreach for the school community and provided oversight throughout the construction phase.

Other Relevant Experience

» FDR Park Master Plan, Philadelphia, PA » Lardner’s Point Park North-End Living Shoreline, Philadelphia, PA » Piszek Preserve Restoration, Upper Dublin & Springfield Townships, PA » Haverford College Stormwater Master Plan, Haverford, PA » Philadelphia Water Department - Bells Mill Run Stream Restoration, Philadelphia, PA* » Lehman Township Community Park, Pike County, PA* » Pennsylvania DoT US 202 Improvement Project, Valley Creek Watershed, PA* *prior to work with Biohabitats

Sarah Roberts

Senior Environmental Scientist

EDUCATION Sarah is an environmental scientist with expertise in soil characterization and Coursework towards M.S. in Soil Science, management, ecological assessment and monitoring, wetland delineation, and North Carolina State University, Raleigh permitting. She has conducted soil characterization and sampling for baseline B.S., Environmental Science, conditions and post-construction monitoring for ecological restoration sites. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State She has assisted Natural Resources Conservation Service personnel with soil University interpretations for land use and management and has entered soils data into the National Soil Information System. She delineates and assesses wetland boundaries PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and prepares technical jurisdictional determination reports. In addition, Sarah Mid-Atlantic Association of Professional Soil prepares county, state and federal permitting and oversees the permitting process Scientists for numerous projects. Soil Science Society of America RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Society of Wetland Scientists Floyds Fork Greenway Master Plan, Louisville, KY. Sarah analyzed and categorized soils data based on soil map units, K factor, hydraulic conductivity, and texture in Louisville at Floyds Fork to produce GIS inventory maps. Washington Avenue Green Design-Build, Philadelphia, PA. Sarah reviewed the chemical and physical analysis of existing in-situ soils and composing a soil specification for the design-build project based on those soil results. City of Atlanta, Urban Ecology Framework, Atlanta, GA. Sarah provided technical support to recommendations regarding the role soils played in supporting and sustaining urban ecology initiatives such as conversion of vacant lots or former industrial space where legacy soil contaminants played a role in planning.

Other Relevant Experience

» FDR Park Master Plan, Philadelphia, PA » Horseshoe Farm Park Master Plan, Raleigh, NC » Fairmount Park, Wissahickon Watershed Gully Restoration Design-Build, Philadelphia, PA » USACE Philadelphia District, Wissahickon Feasibility Study, Philadelphia, PA » Master Plan in Delaware River Watershed » Cleveland Metroparks Acacia Reservation Ecological Master Plan, Cleveland, OH » NYCDEP Change Order 3 Green Infrastructure Neighborhood Demonstration Areas, New York, NY » Pittsburgh Natural Areas Study, Pittsburgh, PA » Flight 93 National Memorial — Soil and Water Sampling, Somerset, PA » Jefferson Memorial Forest Master Plan, Louisville, KY » University of Pennsylvania Ecological Stewardship Plan, Philadelphia, PA » New Jersey Highlands Critical Habitat Conservation and Management Plan, NJ

Tyler Schlachter

Geographer

REGISTRATION AND TRAINING Tyler is a geographer with expertise in the collection, analysis, and communication FAA Remote Pilot Certification of data related to natural resources and human-environment relations. His expertise combines spatial analysis with hands-on practical experience. A critical thinker EDUCATION skilled in the use of GIS and a variety of data analysis tools, Tyler’s skills lend to the M.S., Geography, production of compelling visual stories supported by empirical evidence. Tyler is a Indiana University skilled developer — with experience producing data-rich, interactive web mapping B.S., Geographical Sciences, applications using open-source and enterprise GIS technologies. University of Maryland, College Park RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art Master Plan. Chadds Ford, PA. Tyler PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS was the supporting geographer as part of a multidisciplinary planning team led American Association of Geographers by architects Cooper Robertson. As the team’s ecological consultant Biohabitats ensured that the site’s unique ecology and by the property’s context within the Brandywine River watershed informed the master plan. City of Atlanta, Urban Ecology Framework, Atlanta, GA. Tyler supported the geospatial analysis of the City’s ecological resources and the development of planning approaches and recommendations. The geographic analysis included identification of areas in need of protection or enhancement for biodiversity, recreation, and a suite of additional urban ecosystem services. The assessment and recommendations also incorporated environmental justice and equity needs with respect to ecological resources and public space access.

Other Relevant Experience

» Master Plan in Delaware River Watershed » Allegheny Arboretum Master Plan, Indiana, PA » Forest Park Natural Resource Management Plan, St. Louis, MO » Downtown Crescent Design-Build Restoration, Columbia, MD » World Trade Center Floating Wetlands, Baltimore, MD » River Valley Ranch Stream Restoration, Manchester, MD » NASA Maryland Forest Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring System, MD*

Bryon Salladin, cf

Environmental Scientist

REGISTRATION & TRAINING Bryon has prepared numerous natural resource inventories, forest stand SAF Certified Forester® delineations, and forest conservation plans over the past 21 years. This experience ISA Certified Arborist™ includes assessment, restoration, wildlife population studies, reforestation, soils International Society of ArboricultureTM identification, streambank stabilization, native vegetation establishment, invasive Tree Risk Assessment Qualified species control, natural wildlife habitat enhancement, and phytoremediation. Office of Environmental Services His forest and wetland resource investigations lead to restorative design and Ecological Training, Ohio DOT implementation. Bryon’s knowledge of native and ornamental plants includes Forest Conservation and Site cultural requirements for a variety of woody and herbaceous plants. With more Assessment, Johns Hopkins University than two decades of applied arboriculture and forestry expertise, a reputation for Maryland Biological Stream Survey creative problem-solving, and an inquisitive mind that drives him to research best Training practices, Bryon will be bring leading-edge knowledge to the quality assurance of the Philadelphia Urban Forest Strategic Plan . EDUCATION RELEVANT EXPERIENCE M.S., Forest and Natural Resource Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art Master Plan. Chadds Ford, PA. Management, SUNY College of Bryon served as project environmental scientist. He performed a rapid field Environmental Science and Forestry assessment of floodplain wetlands, forest communities, and a regionally significant B.S., Environmental Science, wildflower meadow based on desktop analysis. He then provided guidance on Unity College recommendations for planning and design that would complement and support the ecological features. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Washington Avenue Green Design-Build, Philadelphia, PA. Bryon was an Society of American Foresters environmental scientist on the design team for this design-build project. His International Society of Arboriculture responsibilities for this project included predesign site evaluation and development of the native landscape planting palette. City of Atlanta Urban Ecology Framework, Atlanta, GA. Bryon provided technical guidance and led efforts to prepare the Tree Protection Ordinance Fact Sheets and the rewrite of the Tree Protection Ordinance. Bryon also participated in the three work sessions associated with the Tree Ordinance Stakeholder Committee and the one Working & Planning Coordination Session for the Tree Ordinance.

Other Relevant Experience

» North Delaware Riverfront Greenway-Lardner’s Point Park, Philadelphia, PA » Green Infrastructure Plan, Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, MO » City of Atlanta Urban Ecology Framework, Atlanta, GA » Chattahoochee Greenway Study, The Trust for Public Land, Atlanta, GA » PlaNYC Green Infrastructure Initiative - Jamaica Bay Watershed Ecological Atlas, New York, NY » Eco-Commons at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA » Port Covington Master Plan, Baltimore, MD » Bee Tree Preserve Master Planning Visioning, Baltimore, MD » Cleveland Metroparks Acacia Reservation Ecological Master Plan, Cleveland, OH » The Omega Institute Ecological Master Plan, Rhinebeck, NY » Gwynns Falls Ecosystem Restoration Phase I (MC-10), Baltimore, MD » City of Pittsburgh Natural Areas Study, Pittsburgh, PA

BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art Master Plan Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Ecology is part of an integrated planning process that will help establish and protect meaningful connections between art and the landscape of the Brandywine region of Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Located along the banks of Brandywine River, the team’s ecological consultant, Biohabitats’ role was to ensure Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art (BCMA) that the Master Plan was informed by site ecology and by the preserves and presents elements of art and nature that properties’ context within the Brandywine River watershed. highlight the extraordinary beauty of the region and a As part of the initial assessment, the Biohabitats team renowned collection of American Art. The main campus is evaluated the landscape ecology of the site, identifying and home to the Brandywine River Museum of Art, known for its examining ecological features such as wetlands, floodplains, holding of the Wyeth family and other local artists, and the vegetation communities, and unique features like their Brandywine Conservancy, a nationally-known land trust and wildflower meadow — the preservation of which spawned the conservancy dedicated to protecting and conserving the land, conservancy 50 years ago. After participating in sessions water, natural, and cultural resources of the Brandywine- with the staff of the BCMA, Biohabitats then developed an Christina watershed. The campus also includes several ecological framework to guide the development of a more historic properties and over 300 acres of protected forests, connected, coherent experience for all visitors. floodplain, wetlands, and farmland.

Seeking a master plan to guide future expansion and growth SERVICES while protecting the unique resources of the site and Assessment enhancing connectivity and sustainability of its properties, Engagement the BCMA turned to a team led by Cooper Robertson Planning Regeneration Architects that included OLIN and Meliora Design. As the

21ST CENTURY PARKS Floyds Fork Greenway Master Plan Jefferson County, Kentucky

As a key member of a multi-firm consultant team for the Floyds Fork Greenway Over a century ago, Louisville, Master Plan, Biohabitats performed a Geographic Information System (GIS)- Kentucky was envisioned as a “City based inventory and analysis of natural resources within the project area to help identify conservation and restoration opportunities and guide the master plan’s of Parks.” Spanning over 3,200 acres arrangement of park uses, programs, and facilities. along 19 miles of meandering stream, The work included GIS data collection and interpretation of items such as geology, the Floyds Fork Greenway is bringing soils, water resources, and landscape ecology within the watershed. The project this vision to life. team used this information to help develop greater understanding of interpretive opportunities, and identify the area’s natural resources. Biohabitats has also helped field-identify existing wetlands and develop map exhibits for the ongoing SERVICES ecological baseline study. Inventory & Assessments Planning This project earned a Merit Award for Master Planning in the National Park Parks Service’s “Designing the Parks” competition. Public Outreach

WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY West Chester University Landscape Master Plan West Chester, Pennsylvania

In recent years, West Chester University, located outside of Philadelphia, PA, Integrating ecology and has experienced record growth that has stretched the capacity of its campus. To stormwater into a holistic address this, the university sought a holistic approach to growth that reflects its unique urban character and the local ecology. The planning team, led by Landworks landscape master plan enhances Studio, collaborated with University staff to develop a master plan that promotes resilience and ecological learning, community connections, ecological and social resilience, and adaptability. awareness for the West Chester A key member of the planning team, Biohabitats focused on evaluating the natural University campus community. resources found on campus, through data analysis and site assessment. With this information, Biohabitats developed specific green infrastructure recommendations and guidance, and provided input on integrated spaces for learning and SERVICES experimentation. Engagement Assessment Biohabitats also advised on a regionally appropriate native plant palette for the Planning campus. Team members participated in a series of planning workshops with Regeneration members of the staff, faculty, and student body. The resulting master plan responds to the unique character of this urban campus, weaving it into the fabric of the surrounding neighborhoods and local ecology, while strengthening a sense of community and connection for the student body and providing more integrated opportunities for learning and socializing.

WISSAHICKON VALLEY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION Wissahickon Creek Stream Restoration Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

existing channel. No rise in 100-year flood elevations (from The restoration of an impaired headwater stream existing to proposed condition) will be accomplished by through a utility corridor significantly improves its having a net excavation of material in the project channel and floodplain. Moderate variations in channel alignment protect function and riparian habitat. utility infrastructure, enhance floodplain storage, and reduce extreme bend angles. Native tree, shrub, and herbaceous The 64-square mile Wissahickon Creek watershed, which plantings were designed for all graded areas, except for areas includes portions of Philadelphia, drains to Wissahickon adjacent to or under the utility transmission lines. Creek, a tributary to the Schuylkill River. Over decades, Biohabitats provided stream, wetland, and vegetation development in the watershed has degraded the creek. assessment services, developed restoration plans, and The Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) obtained permits to implement the project. Biohabitats also wanted to restore an entrenched, over-widened, and eroding provided construction cost estimates for the client to seek section of the creek, which flowed along a utility corridor and grant funding. some residential and conservation easement properties. In Project constraints associated with existing utilities were addition to reducing sedimentation and restoring stability and numerous, but through cooperative efforts led by WVWA and floodplain connectivity and function, project goals included Biohabitats, a design which achieved project goals and met enhancing native vegetation and wildlife habitat. the utility’s standards was achieved. Biohabitats’ approach included the development of significant SERVICES floodplain benching and depression storage, as well as Inventory & Assessments moderate raises in channel invert to reconnect the stream Design with its adjacent floodplain. This raise was accomplished Permitting by creating riffle grade control structures and filling of the

DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION Washington Avenue Green Design-Build Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The City of Philadelphia recently adopted a new vision for its riverfront. The Washington Avenue Green has the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) wanted to implement early potential to regenerate economic action projects to help build a constituency of riverfront users and illustrate the vitality, community well-being, and City’s commitment to the riverfront. The abandoned Pier 53 provided the perfect opportunity to begin this process. ecological processes, making the Beyond providing new green space and public river access, the project was viewed Delaware riverfront a ‘healthy and by Biohabitats as a way to actively engage South Philadelphians in the restoration connected whole.’ and stewardship of their riverfront. DRWC hired Biohabitats to provide turn-key design-build services to create a park along a section of riverfront trail and restore urban habitat. With simplicity, inspiration and sustainability in mind, Biohabitats developed a design for Pier SERVICES 53 and its surroundings that will serve as a catalyst for regenerating a healthy Inventory & Assessments waterfront, and an incubator for the creation of a greater riverfront greenway. Design-Build Planning Biohabitats’ approach incorporated elements of sustainable design such as porous Green Infrastructure paving, the reuse of on-site material, a rain garden, and native plant landscaping. Construction Management It also created a place to learn about the future of the riverfront and the ecology Public Outreach of the Delaware River. Finally, the site was designed to accommodate a changing riverfront with changing needs and environmental conditions, such as sea level rise.

ROWAN UNIVERSITY Rowan University Stormwater Management & Landscape Master Plan Glassboro, New Jersey

interrelationships and environments of open spaces, performed By integrating stormwater management and landscape hydrologic analyses to determine potential impacts on current, master planning, a university now has a holistic ongoing and future development by 5, 10, and 100 year storms, and examined overall campus connectivity. We then identified strategy for campus expansion within a network of opportunities for restoration, retrofitting, conservation, and thriving campus landscapes and high-performing new development within each zone, as well as opportunities ecological infrastructure. to connect the zones to create integrated, functional, and aesthetic open space environments.

From modest beginnings in 1923, Rowan University’s growth Inherent in the master plan is the goal to protect, enhance, and has caused substantial reduction of pervious surfaces and create functional or“working” landscapes that demonstrate inadequate stormwater management, adversely impacting the and embrace water as a natural resource, while also providing quality and biodiversity of Chestnut Branch, the stream system benefits such as habitat, microclimates, aesthetics, recreation that runs through the center of campus. A major roadway and respite, social spaces, and learning landscapes. The bisects the 225-acre campus, impacting mobility and safety, as plan provides a framework for future campus management well as ecological and campus connectivity. and planning, while also defining a renewed sense of natural function, social interaction, and spatial definition. This plan was With significant growth predicted and several capital accompanied by a parallel design and implementation effort to improvement projects in planning, the University called showcase the principles and vision of the master plan. Biohabitats to develop a master plan to guide the creation of sustainable, functional campus landscapes that integrate SERVICES stormwater management, open spaces, and connectivity. Engagement Assessment Biohabitats divided the campus into zones, based on watershed Planning & Regeneration catchment areas. Within each zone, we evaluated the

CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS Baltimore Green Network Plan

Baltimore, Maryland

The City of Baltimore contracted Biohabitats to craft a Green Network Plan for a The green network plan provides comprehensive and interconnected system of functional green spaces across the city. a guiding vision for revitalization in A key goal is to identify opportunities to leverage existing greening and revitalization programs associated with vacancy in the city, engaging non-profit and community the City of Baltimore, prioritizing partners through a strengthened and connected green infrastructure network. ecological function, social equity, Biohabitats is leading an interdisciplinary planning team in a collaborative process and economic revitalization through to develop suitability and prioritization criteria for the green network. With both a cohesive and inclusive network of historical and contemporary planning initiatives in mind, the team is considering the complex and interdependent relationships of greenspace in the urban fabric green spaces. through a lens of ecological function, connectivity, and community resilience.

SERVICES Unique to this project is our collaborative planning approach, working directly Assessment with the City Department of Planning on GIS analysis and public outreach. The Planning consultant team is responsive to feedback of active community organizations as Parks well as state and federal stakeholders. This green network plan will act as the Management foundation for future development, redevelopment, and greening initiatives across Public Outreach the city. The final plan celebrates the historic stream corridors that define the city’s landscape while connecting open space with safe and increasingly green corridors. It promotes healthy and safe access to active and passive open space for all city residents and increased ecological function of the unique natural resources that define the City of Baltimore.

CITY OF ATLANTA, DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT City of Atlanta Urban Ecology Framework

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is often called “the city in a forest” based on its development patterns and A strong Urban Ecology Framework its abundant tree canopy. Aware of this, other natural resources, and contemplating sets the stage for a livable future dramatic forecasted population growth, the City developed Atlanta City Design, a community-inclusive effort to envision Atlanta in the next 20+ years. The vision based on sustainability and on called for a plan that is “For People, For Nature, and For People in Nature.” regeneration — the process of Biohabitats is helping the Department of City Planning to develop an Urban Ecology integrating living systems with Framework (UEF). The UEF will establish the natural context for Atlanta’s growth human aspirations. and development; determine aspects of nature that should be preserved, restored, and accentuated by the public realm; and chart a citywide green network that will SERVICES benefit all city residents. The UEF, emphasizing equity and inclusiveness, aims to Inventory & Assessments generate stewardship for the natural environment and maximize the potential to Planning transform and integrate vacant and abandoned properties into the green network. Parks Design The project examines the city’s natural environs, tree canopy, watersheds, green Management spaces, and other features. Informed by community input and data analysis, the team Public Outreach has identified and recommended opportunities, strategies and policies to restore Policy ecosystems and habitat, connect green and blue spaces, and promote development aligned with those systems. In reestablishing and integrating ecological processes into the city’s cultural and economic fabric, the UEF embarks Atlanta on becoming a more resilient, vibrant, and healthy city. Simultaneously, Biohabitats and the City are rewriting the tree ordinance to align implementation with the economic goals, tree preservation, conservation, and canopy enhancement strategies in the UEF.

Awards

Ivy Road Corridor Stream Restoration Planning and Design National Aquarium Waterfront Campus Plan 2020 — Honor Award for Excellence in Landscape 2018 — Honor Award for Research, American Society of Architecture for Open Space Planning, Society for College Landscape Architects and University Planning (SCUP) 2018 — Merit Award, Maryland chapter of ASLA University of Virginia, Dumant Janks, VHB, Oehme van Sweden 2016 — Excellence in Design Award, Honor — Urban Design & Master Planning, AIA Maryland Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Master Plan Ayers Saint Gross 2019 — Honor Award for Analysis & Planning, American Society for Landscape Architects Emory University Water Reclamation Facility Studio Outside, Lake Flato 2018 — Campus Sustainability Achievement Award, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Glenstone Museum, Water Feature Design Education 2019 — Honor Award for General Design, American Society of Emory University, Sustainable Water, Critical Flow Landscape Architects 2020 — Best in Competition, AIANY Design Awards, AIA NY Eden Hall Campus Master Plan, Water Balance, and 2020 — German Design Award, Gold Award for Excellent Wastewater Treatment Architecture, German Design Council 2019 — Stephen R. Kellert Biophilic Design Award, Honorable PWP Landscape Architecture (lead) Thomas Pfifer Architects Mention, International Living Future Institute 2018 — Educational Facility Design Award of Excellence, The Alger Park Stream Restoration American Institute of Architects 2019 — Best Urban BMP in the Bay, Chesapeake Stormwater 2017 — AIA COTE Top Ten Award, American Institute of Network Architects Committee on the Environment 2019 — Best Stream Restoration in the Bay, Chesapeake 2015 — Engineering & Science Award of Excellence, AIA Stormwater Network Pittsburgh DC Department of Energy & Environment, Limnotech Mithun, BNIM, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., and Andropogon Rock Creek Tennis Center LID Retrofit Design-Build 2019 — Best BMP Retrofit in the Bay, Chesapeake Stormwater Georgia Tech Water Harvesting & Reuse Systems Network 2018 — COTE Top Ten, The American Institute of Architects Lake Flato Architects, Cooper Carry Architects, Newcomb & Denton Creek Park Master Plan Boyd, and Long Engineering 2019 — Honor Award for Planning & Analysis, Texas American Society for Landscape Architects Shield Ranch Master Plan TJB Partners, Verdunity 2018 — Honor Award for Analysis and Planning, American Society of Landscape Architects Andropogon Associates, Ltd.

Hassalo on 8th Wastewater Treatment & Reuse System 2017 — LEED Homes Award Project of the Year, U.S. Green Building Council 2017 — “Model the Way Leadership” Catalyst Award, Lloyd EcoDistrict Turner Construction Company, Glumac, PLACE, GBD Architects, Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc., and KPFF Consulting Engineers

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Master Plan

Galveston Island State Park Master Plan 2016 — American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum 2017 — Award of Excellence, Analysis & Planning, ASLA, Museum of Architecture and Design/European Center for American Society for Landscape Architects Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies/Metropolitan Arts 2012 — Honor Award for Planning & Analysis, Texas ASLA Press Studio Outside, Overland Partners, PRD Group, and CP&Y 2015 — Design Award, Texas Society of Architects Lake Flato Architects Brock Environmental Center–Rainwater Harvesting & Reuse North Delaware Riverfront Greenway–Lardner’s Point Park 2017 — AIA COTE (Committee on the Environment) Top Ten 2015 — Green Park Award, Pennsylvania Department of Award, American Institute of Architects Committee on the Conservation and Natural Resources Environment Urban Engineers SmithGroup Rowan University Stormwater Management & Landscape Baton Rouge Lakes Master Plan Master Plan 2016 — President’s Award of Excellence,, Louisiana ASLA 2015 — Merit Award for Excellence in Planning for an Existing SWA Group and Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects for the Campus, SCUP Baton Rouge Area Foundation Rowan University, Ayers Saint Gross, and Urban Engineers

Rutgers University Busch & Livingston Stormwater & Mirror Lake Remediation and Restoration Landscape Management Master Plan 2015 — Honor Award for Excellence in Environmental 2016 — Merit Award, Maryland ASLA Engineering & Science, American Academy of Environmental Rutgers University, Wells Appel, Hydro Qual, and Design Engineers & Scientists Collective Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, University of Maryland Baltimore Stroud Water Research Center Ecological Wastewater County Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental System Upgrades Engineering, Brightfields 2016 — Private Project Winner, Excellence in Green Stormwater Infrastructure, GSI Partners Linnean Park Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance M2 Architecture, Andropogon Associates, Meliora Design and Design-Build Lanchester Soil Consultants 2015 — BEST Urban BMP in the Bay, Best Stream Restoration, Chesapeake Stormwater Network Phase 3 Sauvie Island Restoration–North Management Unit District Department of the Environment, Underwood and 2015 — Wetland Project Award, Oregon State Land Board Associates, Stantec Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce, ODFW, Bonneville Power Administration, Environmental Green Streets and Blue Alleys: Stormwater Management Science Associates, PC Trask & Associates, and Aquatic 2015 — Honorable Mention, Ultra-Urban BMP, Best Urban BMP Contracting in the Bay Awards, Chesapeake Stormwater Network Blue Water Baltimore, Baltimore City Department of Public Stono River County Park Master Plan Works & Transportation, Center for Watershed Protection, 2015 — Merit Award for Analysis & Planning, South Carolina Butchers Hill & Patterson Park Neighborhood Associations, ASLA National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Stormcrete, EP Henry Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission and Stantec, Inc.

Josey Pavilion Wastewater Treatment and Reuse and Stormwater Management 2018 — Stephen R. Kellert Biophilic Design Award, International Living Future Institute 2016 — AIA COTE Top 10 Project Winner, American Institute of Architects, Committee on the Environment

Strength to Love Farm 2015 — First Place, Best Innovative BMP, Best Urban BMP in Lizard Hill Sand Mine Reclamation & Bishopville Pond the Bay Awards, Chesapeake Stormwater Network Restoration Parks & People Foundation and Big City Farms 2012 — Exemplary Ecosystem Initiative, FHWA

Stormwater Planning & Design for Baltimore Community Omega Center for Sustainable Living Wastewater ToolBank Treatment System 2015 — Honorable Mention, Ultra-Urban BMP, Best Urban BMP 2011 — Gold Award, Sustainable Category, International in the Bay Awards, Chesapeake Stormwater Network Interior Design Association Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore Community ToolBank, 2010 — LEED NC: certified Platinum, United States Green and Wildlife Habitat Council Building Council 2010 — Living Building Challenge, Cascadia Region Green Keya Wakpala (Turtle Creek Development) Master Plan, Building Council Phase I Plan, and Engineering Assessment 2010 — Top Ten Green Projects, American Institute of 2014 — SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design, Architects Social Economic Environmental Design Network 2010 — Merit Award, American Institute of Architects: Kansas Blue Star Studio, Sustainable Nations, LeBeau Development, 2009 — Merit Award, American Institute of Architects: Central Dream Design International, Development Center for States Region Appropriate Technology, Minnesota Housing Partnership, BNIM and John Todd Ecological Design PAE Consulting Engineers, Skyline Engineering, Rosebud Economic Development Corporation Floyds Fork Greenway Master Plan 2010 — Designing the Parks Merit Award in Master Planning, The College of Charleston Dixie Plantation, Environmental National Park Service Learning Center Wallace Roberts & Todd 2014 — Excellence in Planning for a District or Campus Component Honor Award, SCUP Flight 93 National Memorial Phase 1B Revegetation Ayers Saint Gross Architects and Planners, GEL Engineering 2010 — Designing the Parks Merit Award in Master Planning, & Environmental, LLC, Aiken Cost Consultants, Inc., DWG National Park Service Engineering, ADC Engineering Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Washington Avenue Green Design-Build 2013 — Merit Award, Potomac and Maryland ASLA

RiverBend Commerce Park Site Development Plan 2013 — Best Practice Award, Western New York section of the American Planning Association 2013 — Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice, New York Upstate section of the American Planning Association Buffalo Urban Development Corporation & Sasaki Associates

Hudson High School/Tinkers Creek Stream Restoration Design-Build 2013 — John F. Seiberling Award for Regional Cooperation and Resourceful Innovation, Cuyahoga Valley Regional Council of Governments City of Hudson, Cuyahoga County Board of Health, Ohio EPA, Tinkers Creek Watershed Partners, Summit County SWCD, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan

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Firm Profile

Projects On the Boards Mt. Cuba Master Plan Implementation Projects | Hockessin, DE Philadelphia Contemporary Art | Philadelphia, PA New Bolton Veterinary Laboratory Feasibility Study and Campus Master Plan | Chester County, PA Wexford Science and Technology Drexel Academic Tower | Philadelphia, PA Brandywine Conservancy and Museum Master Plan | Chadds Ford, PA University of Pennsylvania Vagelos Energy Tower | Philadelphia, PA NJT Elizabeth Station | Elizabeth, NJ

Under Construction Bucks County Community College Campus Core Improvements and Campus Green | Bucks County, PA Mesker Park Zoo Penguin Exhibit Wetland Wastewater Treatment and Reuse | Evansville, IN University of Pennsylvania Wharton Academic Building and Substation | Philadelphia, PA University of Pennsylvania New College House West New Residence Hall | Philadelphia, PA Cape May Commons | Rio Grande, NJ Fishtown Recreation Center | Philadelphia, PA North Central Phase V Affordable Housing Project | Philadelphia, PA Drexel Powel Elementary and Science Leadership Academy Middle School | Philadelphia, PA

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Michele Principal/Founder, Chief Engineer Adams PE, LEED AP For over 30 years, Michele Adams’ career has encompassed environmentally sensitive site design and sustainable water resources engineering. Her work includes planning and engineering with a focus on resilient design and improving watershed health with each built project. This includes green infrastructure projects that combine sound engineering science with an understanding of natural systems. Michele is one of the principal authors of the PA Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual and the award-winning New York City Department of Parks and Recreation High Performance Landscape Guidelines, as well as several other stormwater and LID manuals throughout the country. Michele is the founding Principal at Meliora Design, established in 2007.

Relevant Experience Education

University of Pennsylvania I Philadelphia, PA Graduate Work in Water Resource Engineering Wharton Academic Research Building | LEED Certified Villanova University New College House West Shoemaker Green | SITES Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering The Pennsylvania State University Drexel University I Philadelphia, PA Perelman Plaza and Korman Quadrangle Renovation Registrations Powell Elementary and SLA Middle School Stormwater Master Plan Professional Engineer in PA, DE, NY, MD ,VA Wexford Science and Technology | Philadelphia, PA Drexel Academic Tower LEED Accredited Professional

Haverford College I Haverford, PA Affiliations Lutnick Library Renovation U.S. Green Building Council, Sustainable Sites Purdue University I West Lafayette, IN Technical Advisory Group Stormwater Master Plan Athletic Field & Stadium Parking Lot Green Infrastructure Board Member, Sustainable Business Network of Wharton Esherick Museum I Tredyffrin Township, PA Philadelphia Stormwater Management and Site Improvements American Rivers Science and Technical Advisory Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art I Chadds Committee Ford, PA Campus Master Plan Publications Longwood Gardens | Kennett Square, PA Meadow Expansion Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change. Stroud Water Research Center I Avondale, PA Wiley, 2011 Environmental Education Center | LEED Platinum

Philadelphia Zoo I Philadelphia, PA KidZooU | LEED Gold | 2014 Zoo Exhibit of the Year

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Altje Project Manager, Senior Water Resources Engineer PE, LEED AP Macy Altje Macy is a Senior Water Resources Engineer with experience in civil engineering, water resources management, and environmental science and policy. Altje specializes in green stormwater infrastructure planning and design, using her foundation in environmental science and policy to aid in decision making. She develops sustainable site designs for projects of various types and scales. Serving as a Project Manager, Altje consistently meets budget and schedule goals. She has extensive experience in planning and design for campuses and schools, parks, public spaces, and streetscapes, including public outreach and engagement. She has contributed to several manuals and publications. Altje has been a Project Manager at Meliora Design for 11 years.

Relevant Experience Education

University of Pennsylvania I Philadelphia, PA Master of Science in Environmental Policy New College House West Bard College Shoemaker Green | SITES Morris Arboretum Environmental Education Center Concept Plan Blockley Hall Bicycle Facility Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science Chilled Water, HVAC Upgrades - Various Buildings Hawai’i Pacific University

Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA Powel Elementary and SLA Middle School Registrations Professional Engineer in PA and DE Wexford Science and Technology | Philadelphia, PA Drexel Academic Tower LEED Accredited Professional Bucks County Community College I Newtown, PA Campus Core Plaza

U.S. Botanic Garden I Washington, DC Affiliations Bartholdi Park Sustainable Site Design | SITES Member, Philadelphia Living Building Longwood Gardens I Kennett Square, PA Collaborative Meadow Expansion

Philadelphia Zoo I Philadelphia, PA Stormwater Master Plan KidZooU | LEED Gold Treetop Trails and Various Campus Improvements

Temple University | Philadelphia, PA Cecil B. Moore ADA Ramps

Haverford College I Haverford, PA Lutnick Library Renovation

Purdue University I West Lafayette, IN Stormwater Master Plan Athletic Field and Stadium Parking Lot Green Infrastructure

Philadelphia Housing Authority I Philadelphia, PA Choice Neighborhoods Plan North Central Phase V Housing melioradesign guided by nature

Marc Project Manager, Senior Water Resources Engineer Henderson PE Marc is a Senior Water Resources Engineer with fourteen years of water resources and environmental engineering experience. His focus at Meliora is full site/civil design and project management. Marc finds sustainable solutions by integrating stormwater management into project needs, such as a SEPTA bus wash that uses captured rainwater, saving one million gallons per year of potable water. Beyond design, Marc performs professional review of design, permitting, and policy issues and regulations related to water quality, stormwater, and erosion & sediment control measures. In the past, he has provided engineering support and guidance to interdisciplinary project teams for multiple large-scale wetland restoration, flood control, and water supply projects throughout Northeast and Central Florida. Marc has been a Project Manager at Meliora Design for eight years.

Relevant Experience Education

Radnor Township Darby-Paoli Trail and Various Master of Science in Biological Stormwater and Park Projects Systems Engineering Virginia Tech University of Pennsylvania I Philadelphia, PA Wharton Academic Research Building | LEED Certified Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Biological Engineering New Bolton Center I Kennett Square, PA University of Florida Master Plan and Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Concept Plan

Drexel University I Philadelphia, PA Registrations Korman Quadrangle Renovation Perelman Plaza Professional Engineer in DE, FL, GA, MD, NJ, NC, PA, and IN Philadelphia Contemporary l Philadelphia, PA Civil Site Design and Stormwater Management

Mount Cuba Center | Hockessin, DE Affiliations Master Plan Implementation Member, American Society of Civil Engineers SEPTA I Plymouth Meeting/ Philadelphia, PA Frontier Bus Depot Improvements

Upper Merion Township I King of Prussia, PA Community Recreation Center

Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy I Philadelphia, PA New Lower School and Campus Improvements

Philadelphia School District | Philadelphia, PA Central High School Performing Arts Center

University Science Center I Philadelphia, PA Innovation Plaza

Ladew Topiary Gardens | Monkton, MD Facilities Expansion and Site Design

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James Civil/Structural Engineer/Transit Adams PE Jim has been delivering civil/structural engineering and design for over 34 years. His experience includes full civil engineering, structural engineering and analysis, low and mid-rise building design, historic structures, site structural engineering and design, structural evaluations, cost estimating, rail systems design, catenary engineering, traction power engineering, construction management, and project management on multi-team, multi-disciplined projects.

In addition, Jim has participated in sustainable site and structural design. He has substantial experience in the design and analysis of steel and concrete bridges, timber and masonry design, evaluation and rehabilitation of older masonry structures, surveying, design and layout of catenary systems, and the design and analysis of railroad catenary, feeder, and high voltage support structures.

Relevant Experience Education

Temple University | Philadelphia, PA Master of Engineering, Civil/Structural Annenberg Hall Engineering Edberg - Olsen Hall The Pennsylvania State University Wachman Hall Old Medical School Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Bike Shelters The Pennsylvania State University

Department of Public Properties | Philadelphia, PA Registrations Bridesburg Pool and Recreation Center Fishtown Pool and Recreation Center Professional Engineer in PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, CT, Happy Hollow Recreation Center MN, TN, and Washington DC. Lawncrest Pool and Recreation Center Mill Creek Recreation Center West Mill Creek Recreation Center Affiliations Conestoga Recreation Center Morris Estate Member, American Concrete Institute FDR Park Maintenance Building Police District 05 Member, American Society of Civil Engineers

New Jersey Transit Corporation | Elizabeth, NJ Member, American Railway Engineering and Elizabeth Rail Station Buildings Maintenance-of-Way Association, Committees 17 Erdenheim Elementary School | Flourtown, PA & 33 New Cafeteria Addition and Play Surface Areas of Expertise Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Philadelphia, PA Rail Viaduct Pop-up Garden Structural Engineering PPMC Cafe Site Structural and Civil Engineering Cape May County Facilities and Services | Cape May, NJ Cost Estimating Lower Township Public Safety Building Value Engineering Cape May Commons Duct Bank and Manholes Philadelphia Airport | Philadelphia, PA Low to Mid Rise Buildings Crew Elevator Highway and Bridge Structures Terminal Framing Modifications Railroad Electrification melioradesign guided by nature

Water Resources Designer Elise PE Eggert-Crowe Elise is a Water Resources Designer with six years of water resources and environmental engineering experience. Prior to joining Meliora, she earned her Master’s Degree from Vanderbilt University with a focus on Water Resources. She has work experience in land development and with the Philadelphia Water Department’s Stormwater Plan Review Group. Elise’s expertise includes design in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D and modeling using ArcGIS and HydroCAD.

Elise provides engineering support for site design and land development projects involving stormwater design, site grading, E&S, utility design, and permitting. She also provides review of environmental impacts of land development projects.

Relevant Experience Education

University of Pennsylvania I Philadelphia, PA Master of Science in Environmental Engineering New College House West Vanderbilt University Wharton Academic Research Building | LEED Certified

Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering Powel Elementary and SLA Middle School Drexel University

Wexford Science and Technology | Philadelphia, PA Drexel Academic Tower Registrations

Haverford College I Haverford, PA Professional Engineer in PA Lutnick Library

Bucks County Community College I Newtown, PA Publications Campus Core Plaza Hunter, E. C. “Combined Sewer Overflow,” Philadelphia School District | Philadelphia PA “Cyanobacteria Toxins,” “Eutrophication,” “Stormwater Central High School Performing Arts Center Runoff,” and “Water Conservation.” Environmental Greenberg Elementary School Health in the 21st Century: from Air Pollution to Zoonotic Diseases, Edited by Richard V. Crume, Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy I Philadelphia, PA Greenwood, 2018, 2 vols. pp. 117–8; 148-9; 229-31; Lower School 559-61; 613-5.

Philadelphia Housing Authority I Philadelphia, PA Hess, D. J., Wold, C. A., Hunter, E., Nay, J., Worland, S., Choice Neighborhoods North Central Phase V Housing Gilligan, J. and Hornberger, G. M. (2016), Drought, Risk, and Institutional Politics in the American Southwest. Upstream Suburban Philadelphia Watershed | Sociol Forum, 31: 807–827. doi:10.1111/socf.12274. Philadelphia, PA Abington Friends School | Drainage Analysis and Green Infrastructure Modification Plan Hunter, E. S. Worland, G.M. Hornberger. “Regional Variations in Freshwater Withdrawals in the US for 100 MSAs,” American Geophysical Union: 2015 Fall Tyler Arboretum | Media, PA Edible Garden Stormwater Management and Site Improvements Meeting. December 17, 2015

NJ Future | Trenton, NJ Technical assistance and policy support related to Green Infrastructure adoption in New Jersey

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Laura Water Resources Designer Lord Gill PE Laura Gill is a Water Resources Engineer with experience in civil and water resources engineering. Through her education and professional experience, Laura specializes in green infrastructure and stormwater management and innovative ways these areas are rapidly evolving. Laura utilizes knowledge gained from 7 years of consulting experience to contribute towards the planning, design, and implementation of stormwater management and site improvements to meet local, state, and federal regulations while providing water quality, storm relief, and community benefits.

Relevant Experience Education

University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA Master of Science in Civil Engineering Energy Science & Technology Building Villanova University

Rebuild | Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering Vare Recreation Center North Carolina State University Cohocksink Recreation Center Ziehler Playground

Philadelphia Water Department | Philadelphia, PA Registrations Mantua Greenway Green Infrastructure Professional Engineer in PA, NC, NY Woodmere Museum | Philadelphia, PA Master Plan Refinement and Site Design for the Woodmere Museum Publications

Capital Region Water | Harrisburg, PA Lord, L.E., J. Komlos, and R. G. Traver. (2013). City Beautiful H20 Program Priority Planning Area Plan Evaluation of Nitrogen Removal and Fate within Experience Prior to Meliora a Bioinfiltration SCM. ASCE World Environmental Philadelphia Water Department | Philadelphia, PA & Water Resources Congress, May 19-22, Feltonville Recreation Center Improvements Cincinnati, OH. 64th and 66th and Lindbergh Boulevard Greening Improvements 24th Street Greening Improvements Lord, L.E., J. Komlos, and R. G. Traver. (2013). South Philadelphia West Area of Opportunity Analysis Lindbergh Boulevard Area of Opportunity Analysis Role of Volume Reduction and Attenuation in Point Breeze Area of Opportunity Analysis the Loss of Nitrogen from a Bioinfiltration SCM. Callowhill Area of Opportunity Analysis 2013 International Low Impact Development Symposium, August 18-21, Saint Paul, MN. New York City Department of Environmental Protection | New York, NY Affiliations Green Infrastructure Services for MS4 Areas On-Call CSO-PlaNYC Green Infrastructure On-Call Member, American Society of Civil Engineers DC Water | Washington, D.C. DC Water Clean Rivers Project - Potomac River Member, Sustainable Business Network of DC Water Clean Rivers Project – Rock Creek Greater Philadelphia Area

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Borough of Kennett Square West Cypress Street Sidewalks & Streetscape Improvements | Kennett Square, PA

Summary Client

The Borough of Kennett Square Sidewalk and Streetscape Improvements Joseph C. Scalise Project connects an outlying redevelopment area of new businesses and Borough Manager and Director of Public Works residential developments (including a new brewery) to the vibrant center of the Borough of Kennett Square Borough. Meliora led a design team for the documentation of the streetscape 120 Marshall Street Kennett Square, PA 19348 and utility improvements, including porous sidewalks and street trees. P: 610.444.6020 E: [email protected] The project involved evaluation of the preferred alignment for connecting the redevelopment area to the center of town, including considerations and Dates of Service modifications to existing driveways, access areas to businesses, and on-street parking. 2013 - 2014

The four blocks of new and improved sidewalks and crossings improves pedestrian access to and from the town center. Porous paver sidewalks and Services Provided street trees improve aesthetics and stormwater management. On-street Streetscape Design parking improvements, street repaving, and a new municipal water main Civil/Site Engineering Stormwater Design and Permitting replacement were also included. Green Infrastructure Design Alternatives Analysis Water Main Design

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Longwood Gardens Meadow Expansion | Kennett Square, PA

Summary Client Designed to showcase sustainable and ecologically restorative landscapes, Paul B. Redman Executive Director Meliora provided civil and structural engineering, and full permitting for the Longwood Gardens Meadow Expansion at Longwood Gardens. PO Box 501 Kennett Square, PA 19348 P: 610.388.5246 Three new pedestrian bridges over streams and wetlands, several thousand E: [email protected] feet of elevated boardwalk, and heavy timber shelters were carefully crafted to protect sensitive wetland areas while evoking a sense of historic Chester Dates of Service County. The bridges included a concrete barrel arch, a heavy timber tied arch/ 2011-2014 truss, and a steel multi-stringer bridge. Services Provided The National Historic designation of Longwood necessitated extensive Sustainable Site Design permitting by state and local authorities, and coordination to address Stormwater Management archaeological and PA Historic Museum Commission requirements. Ecological Restoration Hydrologic and Hydraulic Analysis Civil Engineering Utility Design Duct Bank Design Structural Engineering Zoning and Permitting

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Radnor Trails | Radnor, PA

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Summary Client

Stephen F. Norcini, PE Meliora is leading a team in the design and permitting of the one-mile Darby- Township Engineer Paoli hard trail, with several additional miles of soft trail. The multi-purpose Radnor Township trail follows Darby-Paoli Road for a length of approximately one mile. Several 301 Iven Avenue Wayne, PA 19087 unimproved mowed trails are also proposed to connect to the main trail. The P: 610.688.5600 ext. 156 proposed trail system includes bridges, culverts, boardwalks, parking areas, E: [email protected] fencing and gates, intersection improvements and pedestrian crossings, stormwater management features, site furniture and landscaping. Portions of the paved trail will be pervious asphalt paving. Dates of Service 2017 - current

Services Provided

Trail Design and Permitting Stormwater Management Structural Bridge Design H & H Analysis Grant Applications

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Stroud Water Research Center | Avondale, PA

Summary Client

The Stroud Water Research Center, one of the premier freshwater research David B. Arscott, Ph.D. institutions in the world, expanded their campus to include the Moorhead Assistant Director, Research Scientist Environmental Complex, a new LEED Platinum educational facility. Scientists Stroud Water Research Center 970 Spencer Road and students of Stroud created an overall vision for the project, defining of Avondale, PA 19311 “getting the water right” to inform design. With this vision as a guide, Meliora P: 610.268.2153 ext. 278 E: [email protected] provided civil engineering and permitting services to bring this goal to life. Dates of Service

The high-performance site includes stormwater management components 2009-2012 that restore the natural water balance of the campus and creates outdoor gathering spaces and educational opportunities. The building and site work Services Provided together to meet integrated, regenerative water goals, in addition to mitigating previous flooding and erosion issues. Civil/Site Engineering Regenerative Site Design Stormwater Design and Permitting Awards/Certifications Rainwater Collection and Reuse Zoning and Permitting • LEED Platinum Certification, U. S. Green Building Council • 2016 Excellence in GSI Award, SBN and GSI Partners • 2013 Best Stormwater Control Measure Project Award, Temple Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative melioradesign guided by nature

New Bolton Center Master Plan | Kennett Square, PA

Summary Client

Todd Woodward, For the University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Veterinary Campus, Meliora SMP Architects provided Civil Engineering for both the Campus Master Plan and the Schematic 1600 Walnut Street 2nd Floor Design of the new Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. Philadelphia, PA 19103 P: 215.985.4410 Campus planning issues included circulation and parking needs for both E: [email protected] pedestrian and large animals, utility challenges related to onsite water supply and wastewater, as well as stormwater management, local zoning and permitting requirements, and historic and cultural resource protection. Dates of Service The New Veterinary Diagnostic Lab will serve both New Bolton and the State of Pennsylvania, and represents a significant addition to the campus with the 2017 - present addition of 120 employees. The facility will achieve a minimum LEED Silver Certification. Services Provided

Site Master Planning Civil Site Design Sustainability and LEED Certification

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United States Botanic Garden: Bartholdi Park | Washington, DC

Summary Client Part of the U.S. Botanic Garden, Bartholdi Park upgrades were designed to Ray Mims Conservation and Sustainability enhance accessibility, infrastructure, and sustainability, while demonstrating United States Botanic Garden green infrastructure. Meliora provided green infrastructure engineering 100 Maryland Avenue, SW for new porous paver paths and plazas, a porous concrete entryway, two Washington, D.C. 20001 P: 202.226.4067 fountains retrofit to become bioretention areas, and a series of bioretention E: [email protected] areas in the renovated landscape. The site serves as an educational resource, Dates of Service demonstrating stormwater techniques that can be applied in highly urban 2013 - 2018 environments and meet new Federal Regulations. Services Provided Green Infrastructure Planning and Design Water Resource Engineering Awards/Certifications Site Design for SITES Criteria

• The project is Gold Certified through the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES)

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KidZooU- Philadelphia Zoo | Philadelphia, PA

Summary Client

KidZooU transformed the historic former pachyderm building and elephant John Osifchok Project Manager yard into a new indoor/outdoor Children’s Zoo and Education Center. Water Philadelphia Zoo and its role in supporting the environment are a key educational features Philadelphia Zoological Society of the award-winning project. KidZooU incorporates a number of green 2400 West Girard Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104 stormwater infrastructure (GSI) techniques and elements, such as two 3,000 P: 215.243.5622 gallon cisterns to manage roof runoff, use of gray water to flush toilets in E: [email protected] restrooms, impervious surfaces draining to four rain gardens distributed throughout the site, two large stone infiltration beds for stormwater overflow, Dates of Service and green roofs. 2013 - 2017

Awards/Certifications Services Provided

• LEED Gold Certification, U.S. Green Building Council Regenerative Design • 2014 Groundbreaker Award, Delaware Valley Green Building Council Civil/Site Engineering • 2014 Grand Jury Award, Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Stormwater Design and Permitting Rainwater Collection and Reuse • 2014 Exhibit of the Year Award, Association of Zoos and Aquariums Site Design for LEED Gold Criteria • 2013 Best Stormwater Control Measure Project Award, Temple Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative melioradesign guided by nature

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers | Philadelphia, PA

Rebuild: Various Projects Rebuild is made possible by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax and will make physical improvements to parks, recreation centers, and libraries. Meliora is working on Cohocksink Rec Center, Ziehler Playground, Lawncrest Library and Rec Center, Chew Playground, and Fotterall Square.

Blue Bell Park and Inn Site improvements, multiple GSI practices and landscape improvements.

Bridesburg and Fishtown Recreation Centers Site improvements including new sidewalks, drainage, and ADA accessibility improvements with supporting permitting and approvals. Structural improvements including pool renovations, walls, new pump and restroom building, demolition of existing building and structures.

Carroll Park Site improvements for renovations and supporting erosion & sediment control.

Clark Park A new Farmer’s Market and plaza areas with stormwater infiltration beds and a porous basketball court provide renovations and improvements while Client maintaining the park’s historical identity. Nancy O’Donnell Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Conestoga, West Mill Creek, and Mill Creek Recreation Centers One Parkway Various structural assessments and repairs including masonry, walls, 1515 Arch Street, 10th Floor foundations, and slabs. Philadelphia, PA 19102 P: 215.686.1776 E: [email protected] Fairmount Water Works Conceptual design of rain gardens and landscape improvements designed to highlight the site’s historic nature and to serve as a demonstration Reference project. Valera Valuiskij City of Philadelphia Departmwnt of FDR Park Maintenance Building and Master Plan Public Property Structural analysis and design for repairs and maintenance of structures Capital Projects Division 151 Arch Street, 11th Floor and roofs. Ecological, hydrologic, and climate resiliency planning Philadlephia PA 19102 recommendations to support Master Plan. P: 215.683.3658 E:[email protected] Fitzpatrick Playground, Ross Park, and Palmer Playground Site improvements, ADA ramps, sprayground restoration, and supporting drainage improvements, erosion & sediment control and approvals.

Gorgas Park Stormwater Management Plan Developed recommendations, integrated into landscape restoration and recreational improvements, to address stormwater and erosion issues.

Guerin Recreation Center Concept stormwater management plan that showed opportunities to manage roof runoff with a green roof, cisterns, a rain garden, and planter boxes. melioradesign guided by nature

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers | Continued

Happy Hollow Recreation Center and Morris Estate Structural assessment of existing buildings and roofs, structural design and prioritized list of repairs and costs.

Lawncrest Recreation Center Assessment of building structure and pool wall, including documentation of alternate repair options. Construction was not completed.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts Civil, site, and stormwater management design for the expansion and renovation of this event venue in Fairmount Park.

Police District 05 Improvements Accessibility and site improvements including ADA paths, stairs, retaining walls, elevator shaft and roof modifications.

Pop-Up Parks: uCity Square and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Conceptual design, courtyard improvements, permitting, and approvals.

Shissler Recreation Center Part of the larger surrounding “Big Green Block,” an existing basketball court was modified to install a large stone infiltration bed, which manages stormwater runoff from the roof of the existing recreation center building.

Simons Recreation Center Drainage and stormwater improvements including rain garden system that captures runoff from the tennis courts and pavement areas.

Tacony Creek Park Green infrastructure improvements for seven park sites, collecting and treating runoff from 13 acres of city streets in bioretention areas.

Thomas Paine Plaza Pop-Up Parks: Farm for the City Analysis of plaza granite pavers over building structure and site conditions to support Pop-up Park installation.

Waterview Recreation Center New sidewalks, site improvements, GSI measures and landscape improvements.

Weccacoe Playground, Stinger Square, Wissinoming Park, Vernon Park, Pleasant Playground, and Fotterall Park Site and landscape improvements including GSI systems (rain gardens, infiltration beds, porous rubber play surfaces, trees) integrated into numerous parks in a collaboration between Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and the Philadelphia Water Department.

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Firm Profile

Unknown Studio is a landscape architecture and urban design practice with a deep belief in the power of the designed landscape to bring joy, wonder, beauty and improved quality of life to all. Through the craft of design and engaged collaboration we create new places and microclimates, tell stories, unearth memories and amplify the culture and ecology of the places in which we live.

WORK

We design at all scales and sites, on the spectrum from urban to rural, regional to human scale. Regardless of site, size, or program, we strive to imagine and realize built landscapes that reframe daily experience and promote a sense of immersion that awakens, inspires, and connects. We work with our clients and stakeholders to create cohesive, memorable, and experientially powerful places for people.

APPROACH

Our workspace is equal parts studio and laboratory. Through experimentation and cross-disciplinary study, our practice seeks to understand the craft, history, and traditions of the places in which we work. Through engagement with our clients and stakeholders, we pursue a deep understanding of place and develop designed responses that are durable, resilient, and timeless. On all sites, we bring a passion for the making of landscape that embraces both innovative and time-tested techniques.

COMMUNITY

Our studio is based in Baltimore, MD, a creative workhorse of the Mid-Atlantic. We are inspired by Baltimore’s dynamic urban environment, vibrant, living arts community, and legacy of ambitious industrialism. Locally, our collaborations seek to help reshape and improve the city’s public spaces and promote social and ecological equity.

Unknown Studio is a woman-owned firm and certified MBE by the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE).

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CLAIRE AGRE, PLA, ASLA PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDING PARTNER

Claire Agre, Principal and Cofounder, brings humor, passion, and conceptual clarity to projects of all scales and types. Claire moved home to Baltimore after 20-years abroad and afield, north, east and south. Most recently and prior to founding Unknown Studio, Claire was Principal-in- Charge at West 8 New York.

Bringing with her a background in painting and field ecology, she has led design and implementation for a diverse portfolio of projects, including the Master Plan and Hills phases of Governors Island Park and Public EDUCATION Spaces, Miami Beach Soundscape Park, the 1000-acre, 40-year Master Master In Landscape Architecture, Plan for Longwood Gardens and its award-winning Main Fountain Garden Harvard University, Graduate Revitalization, Duke University Sculpture Park, and the winning entry for School of Design, Cambridge MA, 2006 Changing Course—an interdisciplinary, international design competition Bachelor of Arts in Environmental seeking solutions for the disappearing Lower Mississippi Delta. Most Science & Policy, Nicholas recently Claire led the multidisciplinary design and engineering team School of the Environment, Duke responsible for the Master Plan and Phase 1 of the Houston Botanic University, Durham, NC, 2002 Garden, a collection garden founded on ideals of diversity and resilience. Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), San Pedro, Costa Rica, Claire holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard 2000 University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor’s degree in LICENSES Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. She is a licensed Registered Landscape Architect: Landscape Architect in Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, New York and Maryland #3965, North Carolina Pennsylvania. A clear and compelling speaker, she has lectured and taught #2020, Texas #3319, Pennsylvania #LA002938, New York #002629 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Austin, University of British Columbia and the Rhode Island MEMBERSHIPS AND School of Design. Closer to home, Claire serves as a Board Member for PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES the Friends of Maryland Olmsted Parks & Landscapes and is a passionate Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) advocate for quality and equity in Baltimore’s public realm. Member of the Board of Trustees, The Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) 2019, Cofounding Partner and Principal, Unknown Studio Landscape Jury Member - 2018 Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, LLC, Baltimore, MD Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Schaudt 2009 - 2018, Principal-in-Charge & Senior Landscape Architect, West 8 urban design & landscape architecture, p.c., New York, NY Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Alumni Council, 2006-2009, Landscape Designer, Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, 2006-2010 MA and New York, NY AWARDS & HONORS 2002, 2004, Urban Forestry Team Leader, Casey Trees Endowment Fund, 2019 Honoree, Walton Family Washington, DC Foundation Northwest Design Excellence Program SELECTED PROJECTS Excellence in Mixed-Use Development, Essex Crossing - Unknown Studio Phase 1, For the Park at Essex • Green Roots Park Vision Plan, Kennett Square, PA, 2019 - Crossing, New York, NY, Urban Land Institute New York, 2019 • Madison Avenue Pocket Parks, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - ASLA Professional Award, Honor • Duke University Sculpture Park at the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, Award in category General Design NC, 2015 - 2018 for Longwood Main Fountain • East Cromwell Diorama Garden, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Garden • Valenti Square (Parcel 2), Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA , 2019 Trumbauer Award ICAA - Philadelphia Chapter 2018 for

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• 3819 Bank Street Gardens, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Longwood Main Fountain Garden • The Patapsco Strand, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - ENR MidAtlantic Best Landscape • Brown’s Wharf Floating Village, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Hardscape Urban Development award 2018 for Longwood Main • Port Covington Maritime Master Plan, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Fountain Garden • West Cromwell Grove, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Philadelphia Preservation Alliance’s • “The Willow,” Finalist for Rue Saint Catherine East Installation, Montreal, 2018 Preservation Grand Jury CA, 2019 - Award for Longwood Main • 500-Acre Regenerative Agriculture Estate Master Plan, (Confidential), Fountain Garden 2019 - 2017 DCA Construction Excellence Award for Longwood Main • Garden for an Architect, Washington, DC - 2019 - Fountain Garden • “Hay-Lo” Garden Festival Submission, Metis, Quebec, CA - 2018 Architects Newspaper 2017 Best of Design Awards for Lighting As Principal at West 8 – Outdoor for Longwood Main • Houston Botanic Garden Master Plan, Houston, TX - 2015 - 2019 Fountain Garden • More Moss Park, Toronto, ON - 2017 -2019 17th Edition Palladio Award 2018, • Riverpoint, Washington DC - 2016 - 2019 for Longwood Main Fountain Garden • Drexel Square, Philadelphia, PA - 2016 - 2019 2018 Excellence in Concrete Award • Houston Innovation District, Houston, TX - 2018 by EPDACI 2018 for Longwood • Longwood Gardens Master Plan, Kennett Square, PA - 2011- 2018 Gardens Main Fountain Garden • The Park at Essex Crossing, NYC, NY - 2015-2019 Most Innovative Firm of the Year • Main Fountain Garden Revitalization, Longwood Gardens, Kennett in the Architecture Sector, Fast Company. West 8 urban design Square, PA, 2012-2017 & landscape architecture, pc. • 100 V Street Master Plan, Washington, D.C. 2017 Adriaan Geuze, Design Director, • Zidell Yards, Portland, OR, 2016 Claire Agre, Principal in Charge. • Drexel University Public Realm Plan, Philadelphia, PA, 2015 Architizer A+ Awards, Jury Winner • Governors Island Park & Public Space Project, New York, NY, in the Public Park Category for Governors Island, 2017 2009-2016 Fixr’s Top 100 Influencers in • Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House. Exhibition Landscape Architecture and Olana Historic Site, Hudson, New York, 2016 Design, 2017 • The Giving Delta, Winner Changing Course Competition, Lower The International Architecture Mississippi Delta, LA, 2013-2014 Award for 2016, Phase 1 Governors • St. Petersburg Pier Competition, St. Petersburg, FL, 2012 Island Park & Public Space • Miami Soundscape, Miami Beach, FL, 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Merit Award While employed at Hargreaves Associates for The Giving Delta, 2016 • London Olympics 2012 Parklands, Lea River Valley, London, UK, 2012. Beverly Willis Foundation Award Winner, “Sites Built by Women New • Reinventing the Crescent, New Orleans, Riverfront Master Plan, New York City,” Landscape Category, for Orleans, LA - Phase 1 complete Governors Island Phase 1. 2014 • Knoxville South Waterfront Schematic Design, Knoxville, TN American Society of Landscape • Denver Union Station Public Realm Concept Design, Denver, CO Architects Honor Award for • Guragon City Centre Schematic Design, New Delhi, India Governors Island Master Plan, 2012 • Governors Island “Park at the Center of the World” Competition American Institute of Architects Finalist, New York, NY Honor Award for New Orleans Riverfront Master Plan, 2012 While employed at Reed Hilderbrand American Society of Landscape • Museum for the Aga Khan Competition Finalist, Toronto, ON Architects Honor Award for New Orleans Riverfront Master Plan, • The Clark Museum Master Plan, Williamstown, MA 2008 LECTURES, TEACHING, VISITING CRITIC POSITIONS American Society of Landscape Architects Certificate of Merit, • Speaker: “Unbuilt Futures,” with Sarah Weidner Astheimer of James Student Work, 2006 Corner Field Operations, Spring 2020 Lecture Series AIA Baltimore / RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2020 • Visiting Jury Critic, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020 Co-Author: “The Giving Delta.”

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NICK GLASE PLA, RA, ASLA, AIA PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDING PARTNER

Nick Glase, Partner and co-founder, has a passion for both systems thinking and fine-grain detail, thriving at multiple scales of design. Throughout Nick’s practice, he has specialized in public realm, institutional, and ecological projects. He is a Registered Landscape Architect and a Licensed Architect, bringing extensive knowledge and experience to his engagement with clients and stakeholders, from concept design through construction and maintenance.

Nick’s prior experience includes leadership roles at the landscape EDUCATION architecture offices of SCAPE, West 8, and Reed Hilderbrand. Major Master of Landscape Architecture, landscape projects under his leadership include Town Branch Commons University of California Berkeley, in Lexington, KY; the United States Golf Association Headquarters in College of Environmental Design, Liberty Corners, NJ; Tomorrowland at Disney Shanghai; Yale University’s Berkeley, CA. 2009 Science Hill Campus; Miami Beach Square and District Plan; and the • Beatrix Farrand Memorial Pete V. Domenici Courthouse in Albuquerque, NM. Early in his career as a Fellow practicing architect, he was a co-founding architect at ProjectFrog, now an Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell industry leader in high-performance prefab buildings. University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY, 1999 Nick earned a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of • Clifton Beckwith Brown California at Berkeley, and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell Memorial Medal, for ‘highest University, where he graduated with the college’s top awards for design class ranking’ in design and research. Nick has served as a Visiting Critic and guest juror at Cornell • William S. Downing Prize University, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Ohio State’s winner for ‘outstanding thesis Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbia University, Rhode Island School project’ of Design, UC Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. • International Studes: • Rome Semester Abroad He is active in the ASLA and AIA, and currently holds licenses in Landscape • Southeast Asia Traveling Architecture in Maryland, Delaware, and New York, and is licensed to Studio practice Architecture in California. • Central Europe Traveling Studio PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

LICENSES Associate, SCAPE Landscape Architecture, New York, NY 2015-2018, Registered Landscape Architect: Associate, Reed Hilderbrand, Boston, MA & New Haven, CT 2014-2016 Maryland, New York, Delaware Design Team Leader, West 8 New York, New York, NY 2012-2014 Registered Architect: Maryland, Landscape Architect, RCHS, Los Angeles, CA 2010-2012 California Landscape Designer, Surface Design, Inc, San Francisco, CA 2009 Landscape Designer, Tom Leader Studio, Berkeley, CA 2008- MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009 Architect, Project Frog, San Francisco, CA2005-2007 Member. American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Architect, Clever Homes, San Francisco, CA 2003-2005 Architect, Michael Guthrie & Company, San Francisco, CA 2000-2003 Member, Maryland Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (MD ASLA) SELECTED PROJECTS Unknown Studio Member, New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape • Winans Cove Maritime Master Plan, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Architects (NYASLA) • The Patapsco Strand, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - • Brown’s Wharf Floating Village, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA) • West Cromwell Grove, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - • “The Willow,” Current Finalist for Rue Saint Catherine East Installation, AWARDS & HONORS Montreal, CA, 2019 - Merit Award, BSLA, “Stone Acres • 500-Acre Estate Master Plan, (Confidential), 2019 - Farm,” Analysis and Planning Category, 2017 • Garden for an Artist, Baltimore, MD - 2019 - Honor Award, ASLA, “Bigger • Garden for an Architect, Washington, DC - 2019 - 10 Unknown Studio © Biohabitats | Restore the Earth & Inspire Ecological Stewardship 45 KENNETT GREENWAY TRAIL MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT

• “Hay-Lo” Garden Festival Submission, Metis, Quebec, CA - 2018 Darby,” Analysis & Planning Category, 2014 Projects lead for SCAPE: Two-Star Certification, SITES, Pete • Town Branch Commons, Lexington, KY - on-going V. Domenici Courthouse, 2013 • USGA Campus Landscape & Master Plan, Liberty Corner, NJ - 2018 First Place, Fort Mason Center competition with West 8 • Cold Spring Art Estate, Cold Spring, NY -Phase 1 2018 Landscape Architecture, 2012 First Place, Seoul Station Projects lead for Reed Hilderbrand: Redevelopment Competition, with • Yale Science Hill, Landscape Master Plan -2015 Surface Design, Inc., 2009 • Stone Acres Farm, Master Plan, Stonington, CT - Phase 1 2017 Team Finalist,’ Rising Currents • The Mill, East Haddam, CT - 2017 Exhibition, MoMA NY with Surface • 3 Lincoln Street, New Haven, CT - 2016 Design, Inc., 2009 • East 18th Street Residence New York, NY - 2016 Exhibition finalist,’ Rising Tides competition with Tom Leader Projects lead for West 8 NY Studio, 2009 • Novartis Central Park, East Hanover, NJ. -2014 Best Green Product Award for • Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, CA -2014 ‘Project Frog Modular Classroom,’ Greenbuild, 2009 • Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA -2014 Young Practitioner ’s Design Excellence Award,’ AIA NY, 1999 Projects lead for Rios Clementi Hale Studio First Prize, Society of American • Tomorrowland Disney Shanghai, Shanghai, China - 2016 Registered Architects international • Domenici Federal Courthouse, Albuquerque, NM. -2012 student competition, 1998

While employed at Surface Design, Inc. ACADEMIC & PUBLICATIONS • Seoul Station Redevelopment Competition, Seoul Korea -2009 Featured work, Testing Ground: • Dundee Drive Residence, Los Angeles, CA -2010 100 Years of Landscape • Hochshule für Technik Competition, Stuttgart Germany - 2009 Architecture at the Ohio State • George Bolt Drive, Auckland New Zealand -2009 University. 2018 Featured work, A Landscape While employed at Tom Leader Studio Inventory: Michel Desvigne • Birmingham Railroad Park, Birmingham, AL -2009 Paysagiste. 2018 • Shelby Farms Design Competition, Memphis TN -2008 Contributing project: “Bigger • Hangzhou “East Lake,” Hangzhou China -2009 MP’s.”, Representing Landscapes: • Rising Tides, San Francisco Bay, CA - 2009 Hybrid, 2016 • Park Merced, San Francisco, CA --2009 Author of “Revealing Infrastructure”, Third Coast Atlas, While practicing as an Architect 2013 • O’Shaugnessy Winery, Angwin CA - 2003 Author of “Tamarack Farm • San Franicsco Child Development Center, San Francisco, CA - 2007 Camp: vom Ferienlager zum • Jim Russell School of Racing, Sonoma, CA -2007 Selbtversogerhof”, Garten + • Project Frog prototype, San Francisco, CA - 2006 Landshaft, 2011 • Nowhouse prototype, San Francisco, CA -2004 Author of ‘Generation • 675 Townsend, San Francisco, CA -2002 Regeneration’, UC Berkeley, 2010. • Pahlmeyer Winery, St. Helena, CA - 2000 Author of “Seasoned Pasture: • Corning Museum of Glass, Visitor’s Center, Corning NY -2000 A Public Park & Grazing Range”, • Cayuga Lake Residence, Ithaca, NY - 2000 Bracket, Vol 1, 2009 Featured work, “Enter the Frog, LECTURES, TEACHING, VISITING CRITIC POSITIONS Modular structures provide flexible, healthy solutions for education”, Eco-Structure, 2009 • Speaker: “We Don’t Know: Invention and Excavation as Design

Practice,” MDASLA Annual Conference, April 2019. • Visiting Jury Critic, Ohio State University, Ohio State University / Knowlton School of Architecture, 2018. • Speaker, Sustainable Campus Landscapes, United States Golf Association, 2018 • Visiting Jury Critic, Cornell University, Department of Architecture, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014

DAVID ZIELNICKI PLA, BCSLA SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

David Zielnicki, senior landscape architect, brings a passion for the environmental potentials and cultural legacies of the designed landscape. David maintains an active role in practice and academia, most recently as a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia where his research and teaching focused on landscape technologies and design education pedagogy for graduate and undergraduate students.

EDUCATION Prior to joining Unknown Studio, David was a landscape architect and Harvard University Graduate project leader at West 8 urban design & landscape architecture. David’s School of Design May, Cambridge, academic background prior to SALA includes a post-professional MLAII MA, 2017. degree with distinction from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard Master in Landscape Architecture University and a professional BSLA with distinction from Cornell University. II, with distinction Cornell University College of David is a licensed landscape architect in Pennsylvania and British Agriculture and Life Sciences, Columbia, Canada. Ithaca, NY, 2010. B.S. Landscape Architecture, PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND magna cum laude; with distinction in research University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture faculty instructor 2017-2020 LICENSES West 8 project leader, landscape architect, New York, NY 2010-2015 OLIN landscape design intern, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Registered Landscape Architect: British Columbia, Pennsylvania SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Unknown Studio Member, Canadian Society of • Green Roots Park Vision Plan, Kennett Square, PA, 2019 - Landscape Architects (CSLA). • Duke University Sculpture Park at the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, Member, British Columbia Society NC, 2015 - of Landscape Architects (BCSLA). • Valenti Square (Parcel 2), Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA , CSLA Annual Awards of Excellence 2019 - Juror 2018 - selected to serve as the juror representing the British • Port Covington Maritime Master Plan, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Columbia Society of Landscape • 500-Acre Regenerative Agriculture Estate Master Plan, (Confidential), Architects for determining the 2019 - winners of the annual, nation-wide Canadian Society of Landscape • “The Willow,” Finalist for Rue Saint Catherine East Installation, Montreal, Architects awards CA, 2019 - • “Hay-Lo” Garden Festival Submission, Metis, Quebec, CA - 2018 AWARDS & HONORS Work included at the Guggenheim Museum exhibition “Countryside, West 8 New York The Future” led by Rem Koolhaas and AMO, 2020. • Houston Botanic Garden Master Plan, Houston, TX - 2015 Teaching and Learning • Longwood Gardens Master Plan, Kennett Square, PA - 2011- 2015 Enhancement Fund grant winner • Main Fountain Garden Revitalization, Longwood Gardens, Kennett 2019-2020, the TLEF at the Square, PA, 2013-2015 University of British Columbia funded the “Topographic Literacy” • 250 South Street, New York, NY 2015 project with $21,900 • Governors Island Park & Public Space Project, New York, NY, Work included in ArtsEverywhere, 2009-2015 “Foundations and Disruptions” • The Giving Delta, Winner Changing Course Competition, Lower Missis- with Site Magazine, February 18, 2019. sippi Delta, LA, 2013-2014

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DANA KASH, ASLA LANDSCAPE DESIGNER UNKNOWN STUDIO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN Dana Kash draws inspiration from a love of horticulture and a curiosity about the ecological materials and processes surrounding us. As a landscape designer, her focus is often on the tactile and time-based qualities of a site. Prior to joining Unknown Studio, she worked at Future Green Studio in Brooklyn, NY, on projects spanning public space, streetscape design, and residential work, and at Design Collective in Baltimore, MD on related projects. Dana holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Cornell University. YEARS WORKING WITH TEAM Before pursuing her MLA, Dana worked in the visual arts in a variety of 5 Years collaboration with Team collaborative settings, including with publisher Triple Canopy, artists books non-profit Printed Matter, as a documentary assistant to filmmaker Sam EDUCATION Green, and organizing the NY Art Book Fair held annually at MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY. Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND of Design, Cambridge, MA. 2017 2019 - Present, Landscape Designer, Unknown Studio, Baltimore, MD Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Cornell University, College of 2018 - 2019, Landscape Designer, Design Collective, Baltimore, MD Architecture, Art, and Planning, 2017-2018, Landscape Designer, Future Green Studio, Brooklyn, NY Ithaca, NY, 2009 2017, Summer Design Instructor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA MEMBERSHIPS AND 2015, Landscape Design Intern, Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MA PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member. American Society of SELECTED PROJECTS Landscape Architects (ASLA) Unknown Studio • Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2019 - AWARDS & HONORS • Green Roots Park Vision Plan, Kennett Square, PA, 2019 - • Valenti Square Park, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA, 2019 - Harvard Asia Center, Traveling • Port Covington Maritime Master Plan, Baltimore, MD, 2019 - Research Fellowship to the • “The Willow,” Saint Catherine East Installation, Montreal, CA, 2019 Mekong Delta, 2015-16

As Landscape Designer for Design Collective • College Park City Hall Plaza, College Park, MD, 2018 - ongoing • Cab Calloway Square Public Park, Baltimore, MD, 2018 - ongoing

As Landscape Designer for Future Green Studio • Pennsylvania Station, Moynihan Train Hall public plazas and roof gardens, New York, NY, 2018 - ongoing • Flower District Public Garden, New York, NY, 2018 - ongoing • Historic Fourth Ward Public Plaza, Atlanta, GA, 2018 - ongoing • Heartwood Site Restoration, Gardiner, NY, 2018 - ongoing

While employed at Reed Hilderbrand • Yale Science HIll Master Plan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2015 • The Mill, East Haddam, CT, 2015-2017 • Lincoln Street Courtyard, New Haven, CT, 2015-2016

ERIN RUDEMILLER LANDSCAPE DESIGNER

Erin Rudemiller received her Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture with Research Distinction from Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture. Erin has a great passion for agricultural and productive landscapes and the past and present systems that have shaped the United States into an agro-industrial nation. Previously, she worked at a small, residential firm in Cincinnati, Ohio where her responsibilities included planting design, construction documents, and conceptual design.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 2019 - Present, Landscape Designer, Unknown Studio, Baltimore, MD EDUCATION 2018 - Gayle Frazer & Associates, Cinccinnati, OH Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, The Ohio State SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University, Knowlton School of Architecture, 2019 Unknown Studio Japan Architectural Studies, 2017 • “The Willow,” Submission for Rue Saint Catherine East, Montreal, QB Bachelor of Science in • 2019 500-Acre Estate Master Plan, (Confidential), 2019 - Neuroscience (incomplete), 2016 EXHIBITIONS • “Confronting Landscapes of Conflict,” w Visiting Professor Walter AWARDS & HONORS Hood, Banvard Gallery, 2017 Knowlton School Deans List, 2016- • “Field Testing,” Banvard Gallery, 2017 2018 • “Knowlton Archives,” 2017-2018 Honors Research Distinction, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture, 2019 Knowlton Faculty Award, 2018 Sigma Alpha Lambda National Honor Society Award, 2018 Indiana University, Hutton Honors Scholar

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SERVitecture Committee Member, 2017-2018 Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects member, 2016-2019 Knowlton Mentor Program, 2017- 2018

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CREATIVE & RESPECTFUL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Unknown Studio approaches many of its projects in the role of the “outsider.” This enables us to appreciate aspects of a place that are taken for granted, imagine responses that have never been considered, and encourages our curiosity throughout a project. We begin projects without preconceived notions around style, program, or direction; we come to a site and to a community with open ears and full hearts.

Below are highlights of our team’s track record in public engagement; specifically, in how we have built stakeholder groups, gathered inspiration and design ideas, and kept momentum going throughout the planning, design and construction process.

Building Constituency

When Unknown Studio’s leadership kicked off the master planning processes for Governors Island and for the Houston Botanic Garden, neither project existed as a destination or a place for the public. Together with the Trust for Governors Island, the design team created an interactive exhibit for the first season on the island, wherein the public could pitch their desires for the future park. Some of the most popular and compelling wishes were for “kids to run free,” “free bikes,” and “ice cream.” Simplistic as it sounds, these ideas directly influenced the design of the park to be car-free, dimensionally planned for cyclists and pedestrians to safely commingle, and for the visionary design of play areas which are contiguous with the larger landscape. On Governors Island there are no fences hemming play areas in, they are seamless with areas for picnicking and relaxing, and all ages are invited. In a sense, the entire project became a destination play area, for all ages.

At the Houston Botanic Garden, a small group of neighbors had concerns about the conversion of an underutilized public golf course into a botanic garden, fearing a lack of inclusion. Working together with the client, the design team hosted a series of highly The Public Engagement Process for Governors Island direcly influenced the conception of the attended, multilingual (600+ attendees, presentations in English, Spanish and Vietnamese) Island as a car-free, play space for all ages. public workshops where we facilitated interactive gameboards that allowed the public to express their desires but importantly, also their fears. In this way we were able to glean the priorities of the public—a primary focus on children; shady, naturalistic areas; and biodiverse KHU VƯỜN wetlands. Through a widespread engagement process, support for the Botanic Garden became incredibly diversified across the entire City of Houston. CỦA BẠN

One Great Idea VƯỜN MỚI CỦA HOUSTON

Kinh mời quy bạn cứng gờp y kìến với cộng đồng để xáy đồng mộí New Houston Botanic Garden For Unknown Studio’s project at Valenti Square Park in Boston, the community was in near Vaờ ngáy Thứ ba, 12 Tháng 5 Năm, 2015 | 6:30-8:30 pm

Park Place Elementary School unanimity in their desires for naturalistic green space. Interestingly, the most specific design 8235 Park Pl Blvd, Houston, TX 77017 Kinh mời quy vi cứng caung vời đội thiết kế để góp y xày dụng mời new Houston Botanic Garden. Nuóc uóng và bánh ngợt được cung cấp. Có chó đầu xe tại trường feedback came from a 6-year old who spoke and sketched about her desire for a quiet place tiểu hoc Park Place Elementary School và khu vuc ó thư viện.

Miễn phí và mở cửa cho công chúng. ALLHoustonians to read and watch bees and butterflies. Her idea became a hugely popular driver for the chào đón .

Được tổ chức bởi Botanic Garden Houston và Hội đồng design, which focused on creating a colorful meadow for pollinator habitat and a shady thành viên Robert Gallegos. Muôn biết thêm chi tiết xin vaó web: grove of trees with sculptural, recycled granite seat walls to rest beneath. Similarly, during http://www.houstonbotanicgarden.org/ the design of the Governors Island groves and forests, the artist Maira Kalman, attending a community meeting, sketched out her idea—and Hammock Grove was born.

Meet the Community Where They Are

Asking the community to turn up to conventional evening town halls will narrow the community engagement process by limiting who has time, access and ability to attend in the evenings. Unknown Studio and MSA-PS pride ourselves on seeking creative ways to meet the community when and where they are. MSA-PS has developed a diverse toolkit of participation and promotion methods for engaging the widest sector of the community possible: The success of community engagement at Houston Botanic was in building a multi-lingual, diverse, inclusive community with buy in on the project and a voice in shaping its goals.

Seeking Priorities / Requesting Vetoes

First Choice:Keeping 3 points Momentum & Enthusiasm High

Second Choice: 2 points Third Choice:Frequently, 1 point once a design direction in a large, public project is set, design and engineering teams Vetoes: 1get point to the hard work of developing designs and community engagement goes silent for years or All comments recorded. Summary slide of how we tallied and how many more. This is a lost opportunity. Finding creative ways to continue engaging the public through feedback boards we received; maybe this has the little sketch from the kid on pilot projects, jobs training, constituency building, and hands-on interactive events is a critical it? part of maintaining momentum and keeping planning fatigue at bay. During this period, we often partner with artists, the Owner, schools, web/tech, and social media experts.

At Town Branch Commons in Lexington, Kentucky, after the concept design was complete, the design team and client created an interactive app and painted trail through the city that allowed citizens to explore the hidden (culverted) creek and the future path of the park. At Governors Island, the client group interpreted core aspects of the design (cycling, food, play) and directly programmed to these during the summer seasons between master plan and opening day—food festivals, free bike programs, pop-up playgrounds and pilot play areas linked the public directly into the future vision of the park, and integrated the Island into the lives of New Yorkers. During construction at Governors Island and Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden, we worked with the clients to invite the public into the construction site in safe and engaging ways. Invitations to ‘building demo’ parties, the creation of a construction observation platform and exhibit, and We stay open to the possibility that design input monthly tours of the fascinating projects showcased the complexity and awe of major works of comes from all corners, from children to world renowned artists. landscape architecture. Last but not least, we worked closely with the client group for Houston Botanic Garden to deliver the Susan Garver Discovery Garden and water play area early—this ‘soft opening’ of the garden invited the most important constituency (Houston’s children) to the garden one year before opening day.

Youth / Young Adults Senior Citizens Underrrepresented PopulationsRenterUnder Households LMI and thoseHouseholds with Children Public Meetings Weeknight Open House with Food ★ Saturday Morning Open House ★ ★ Open House with Kids' Planning Activity ★ ★ Multiple Sites Across the City ★ ★ Question Poll/Survey One-Question Online Poll ★ Online Survey ★ ★ Mailed "hard copy" of survey ★ Community Engagement Mapping ★ ★ Interviews / Focus Groups / Meeting Visits Senior Housing Residents ★ ★ Young Professional Groups ★ ★ High School Students ★ ★ Stakeholder / Neighborhood Advisory Committees ★ ★ ★ Special Interest Groups (Bike Group, Moms Group) ★ ★ Confab Booth ★ ★ ★ Design Charrette ★ ★ Neighborhood Office Hours ★ ★ ★ Public Idea Board at Central Location ★ ★ Walkabouts ★ ★ ★

The Governors Island client team was committed to sharing the future park in “Pop-up” form, and engaged the community in the park’s construction. For the own Branch Creek project, the design team created an interactive map for the public to explore on their own terms.

PROJECT TIMELINE Nick Glase, Project Manager TOWN BRANCH 2015 - ongoing & Design Lead Client Consultants Lexington Fayette Urban AECOM, Gresham Smith & COMMONS County Government, Partners Division of Water Quality Biederman Redevelopment LEXINGTON, KY Town Branch Fund Ventures Lord Aeck Sargent Scope Strand Engineering Master Plan & Standards Lochner Bike/Pedestrian Greenway Third Rock Consultants and Watercourse Awards & Recognition Size $14.1 Million TIGER Grant 2.5 linear miles Recipient, US Department of Transportation, 2016 With LARGE | URBAN | PARK | CORRIDOR SCAPE Landscape Architecture, LLC 24 Unknown Studio

“During Nick’s leadership, the team advanced the design and continued their ongoing engagement with local stakeholders, hosting several important public presentations...Their plans provided a clear path forward that was both realizable and visionary.”

Jim Gray

TOWN BRANCH COMMONS weaves a linear network Pedestrian and bike routes, park spaces, plazas, retail of public space along the 2.5 mile path of the historic Town frontages, playful water features, and stormwater infrastructure Branch creek in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Once a waste are stitched along the 2.5-mile path network. A hybrid park canal, sewer, and water conduit for the city, the buried stream network, multi-modal trail system, and water filtration landscape, channel of Town Branch is an opportunity to reconnect the city Town Branch Commons connects Lexington’s rural and urban with its Bluegrass identity and build a legacy public space and communities and reinvigorates the downtown. transportation network for the 21st century. Design documentation for the path and park network based Rather than introducing a single daylit stream channel into on the master plan was completed in 2018, and construction is the city fabric, the design uses the local limestone ‘karst’ geology planned from 2019-2020. as inspiration for a series of pools, pockets, water windows, and stream channels that brings water into the public realm.

A three park park with: urban greenspace + multi-modal trail system + water infrastructure

Main & Vine Fountain expressing geology and anchoring an important urban crossroad Hardscape vocabularly referencing the region’s Bluegrass geology and iconic farm vernacular

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PROJECT TIMELINE PARTNERS 2006-2016 Rogers Marvel Architects GOVERNORS Diller, Scofidio + Renfro CLIENT Mathews Nielsen Landscape The Trust for Governors Architects ISLAND Island CONSULTANTS NEW YORK, NY SCOPE Magnusson Klemencic Master Plan and Associates, AKRF, Hart Full Design Services Crowser Inc., Pentagram, Tillotson Design Associates, SIZE Dagher Associates, Pine 87 acres and Swallow Environmental, Northern Designs, Code WITH Consulting Inc., Faithful & West 8 urban design & Gould, ETM Associates, landscape architecture, p.c. Langan, Fluidity, Claire Agre, Principal & Construction Specifications, LARGE | URBAN | PARK | MASTER PLAN Senior Landscape Architect Inc., Linda Stone, RPA

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“In Claire, I experienced a rewarding partnership between designer and client team. She brought an open mind and attentiveness to working through concepts and details in conversation with the client. Throughout the life of this high-profile and politically demanding project, she was deftly able to keep the design on track while managing an international team and nimbly reacting to the needs of private fundraising and public agencies.”

Ellen Cavanagh VP Planning, Design and Construction The Trust for Governors Island

THE GOVERNORS ISLAND PARK and Public Space Master in all types of weather and seasons, to study micro and macro Plan proposes a dramatic transformation of this once-abandoned site conditions. The team understood from the outset that the island, accentuating the historic qualities of this unique place new park would need to be resilient in the face of rising waters. while transforming Governors Island into a resilient and iconic Rather than withdrawing, we lifted the majority of the island out public park that embraces the island’s rugged sensibility. of the flood zone. Tree species have been planted according to their salt tolerance and topsoil is placed above predicted sea Developed from the winning entry of a 2006 design level rise, protecting their roots and ensuring a healthy forest for competition, the vision for the park was developed into a richly the future. These measures to address rising sea levels and more conceived and feasible 87-acre park that has catalyzed the intense storms proved to be worthwhile as the island withstood island’s redevelopment. Phase 1 of Governors Island created Superstorm Sandy in 2012. 30 acres of new park space and adds key visitor amenities to the historic North Island. Phase 2, “The Hills,” creates 11-acres The Governors Island Park and Public Space Master of monumental topography, reframing forever how New Yorkers Plan creates a unique landscape destination for New York and visitors encounter the harbor. City, connecting visitors with the salt winds, swirling waters, and expansive harbor views while ensuring a resilient public The design team spent hundreds of hours on the island, landscape for future generations.

Slide Hill combines play value for all ages

Working closely with world renowned curators, public art is integrated into the park plan

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The Scramble utilizes the reclaimed seawall as a playful route to the summit

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2014 Built by Women New York City Award, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

2012 Honor Award, American Society of Landscape Architects Award for Excellence in Design, Public Design Commission of New York City

2011 Center for Architecture Foundation Award, The American Institute of Architects, New York Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Open House New York Award

2010 Special Recognition Award, Municipal Art Society

2009 Special Citation, The American Institute of Architects, New York

2008 AIA NYC Honor Award, The American Institute of Architects, New York Green Around Downtown Award, Alliance for Downtown New York

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PROJECT TIMELINE WITH 2014 - 2019 West 8 urban design & THE PARK AT landscape architecture, p.c. CLIENT Claire Agre, Principal & ESSEX CROSSING Delancey Street Partners Senior Landscape Architect SCOPE COLLABORATORS NEW YORK, NY Full Design Services Beyer Blinder Belle AKRF SIZE Rodkin Cardinale 10,000 SF DeSimone Engineers

BUDGET $1,000,000

URBAN | POCKET PARK | PLAYGROUND

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THE DESIGN FOR THE PARK AT ESSEX CROSSING and understory trees, swaths of woodland planting, and vine- provides a refined, shaded oasis in the heart of Manhattan’s covered vertical plantings to create a woodland garden in the Lower East Side. As the marquee park within the six-acre, 1.9 city. Meandering geometries and an oblong central gathering million square foot Essex Crossing Development (formerly area gives the illusion and opportunities of a larger park, while SPURA), this park is poised to become an essential and beloved also offering flexibility for small events and performances to open space for the emerging neighborhood over the next occur simultaneously. decade. One of the largest urban developments in the history of New York City, the Essex Crossing development will transform At the southwest of the site, younger visitors will discover vacant lots and surface parking into a vibrant neighborhood with a child-sized ravine to explore and climb, with challenging rope the Park, completed during phase 1, at its heart. crossings allowing for boundless exploration and interactive play. Multifunctional planter edges offer seating throughout the With a few simple moves, the Park at Essex Crossing delivers park, with robust wooden details that are both comfortable and a calm, verdant island within the urban fabric. An entirely native offer a soft antidote to the typical glass and steel of the city. A palette of trees and groundcovers are located in raised planters community table area at the Broome Street edge offers seating around a central open plaza. Picking up on the Lower East Side’s for larger groups or the opportunity for families to sit gather a history of beloved urban gardens, the Park design layers canopy table in the Park.

The Park aims to become a beloved neighborhood space

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PROJECT TIMELINE WITH 2012 - 2017 West 8 urban design & LONGWOOD landscape architecture, p.c. CLIENT Claire Agre, Principal & MAIN FOUNTAIN Longwood Gardens, Inc. Senior Landscape Architect SCOPE PARTNERS Full Services Beyer Blinder Belle GARDEN Fluidity Design BUDGET Landis, Inc. KENNETT SQUARE, PA $90 MILLION L’Obser vatoire Urban Engineers SIZE Keast & Hood 8 Acres

GARDEN | CULTURAL CENTER | HISTORIC

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LONGWOOD’S MAIN FOUNTAIN GARDEN builds upon of materiality, resilience, maintenance, expanded programming, Longwood’s first-ever physical master plan, which was completed all while honoring the original Baroque “bones.” The design by the Landscape Architect in 2011. harmonizes with the du Pont era while creating an array of new spaces, plazas, gardens and amenities. Custom seating, railings “New Heights: The Fountain Revitalization Project,” and shade are added where before there was none, and a new replaces the 83-year-old fountains’ infrastructure with the latest series of plazas and galleries bring guests to the south side of technology, improves guest access to the Garden, renovates the site. The new public spaces will achieve a renaissance for the and amplifies the design of all plant material, and adds innovative Garden while retaining its identity as recognizably “Longwood.” new fountain and lighting elements that honor the visionary original design by Longwood Gardens founder Pierre S. du Pont. Within the context of the master plan, which aims to transform Longwood Gardens into one of the Great Gardens of Working closely with Beyer Blinder Belle, Claire Agre led the World, the Main Fountain Garden becomes the first and most landscape design for the revitalization. Careful consideration was dramatic encounter in the 1,077 acres of gardens at Longwood. made for inviting in a new generation of visitors, craft and quality

PROJECT TIMELINE Claire Agre, Principal & LONGWOOD 2010 - ongoing Senior Landscape Architect CLIENT PARTNERS Longwood Gardens, Inc. Weiss / Manfredi GARDENS Sherwood Engineers SCOPE Magnusson Klemencic Master Plan Stuart-Lynn 40 YEAR Sam Schwartz BUDGET Fluidity MASTER PLAN Estimated $1 Billion SIZE KENNETT SQUARE, PA 1077 Acres WITH West 8 urban design & landscape architecture, p.c. GARDEN | CULTURAL CENTER | MASTER PLAN

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“Claire Agre and her team were the perfect partner for Longwood Gardens to gently awaken and bring a fresh, innovative perspective to guide the evolution of our great garden for the next forty years. The plan they created for us is one that is realistic, pragmatic, but visionary and is proving to be one of our most important strategic business tools at Longwood Gardens.”

—Paul Redman, Executive Director, Longwood Gardens

Upon arriving at the new Visitors Center, patrons can get tickets, view seasonal displays, and pass through towards the historic

LONGWOOD GARDENS’ FIRST-EVER PHYSICAL MASTER PLAN is Gardens—it will be a living work, inspired by the spirit of the place, a visionary document that maps Longwood Gardens’ trajectory cultivated at the scale of the gardener’s hand and acquiring its over the next 40-years from a beloved regional garden into one unique character over the long term. of the Great Gardens of the World. Three categories of projects are defined which allow The ultimate master plan is ambitious: to create an Longwood to grow and evolve over a generation: New Entry international garden destination that will endure for centuries, to Projects (wicked problems involving parking, infrastructure, solve short-term problems, to accommodate growing visitation arrival sequences and site-wide systems), Legacy Projects and expanded programs through new facilities, to lay out daily, (including Main Fountain Garden and other core du Pont seasonal and peak scenarios for logistics, circulation and gardens), and a la Carte Projects (custom furnishings & Webb infrastructure, to meet the highest standards of sustainability Barn or other easily added guest amenities). Longwood Gardens and stewardship, and to reaffirm the relevance of gardens in our has engaged the design team to work in all three categories, lives. ensuring momentum is carried forth and the master plan is more than a fixed document. The master plan is highly detailed but also flexible, and it allows Longwood Gardens to embody what unifies all Great

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Working with over 400 staff, volunteers, trustees and archivists yielded a rich, multi-voiced and layered approach to Longwood’s master plan.

Revealing hidden watercourses and following the topography was the intuitive driver for organizing circulation, facilities and infrastructure.

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Drama and beauty are layered onto the guest experience and the overall plan is rooted in a pragmatic, sustainable, long view for growth, infrastructure and operations .

FRAMEWORK PLAN LEGEND

Ridgeline

Conservatory

Public / Semi-public Facility

Formal Gardens

Valley & Pastoral Landscape

Back-of-house Facilities

RECOGNITION

2019

Selected Firm - The Walton Family Foundation’s Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program

Excellence in Mixed-Use Development, Essex Crossing - Phase 1, For the Park at Essex Crossing, New York, NY, Urban Land Institute New York, (for work done with West 8)

Finalist - Competition for Rue Saint Catherine, Montreal, Quebec (Open Compettition)

2018

ASLA Professional Award, Honor Award in category General Design 2018 for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

ENR MidAtlantic Best Landscape Hardscape Urban Development Award for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Trumbauer Award for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

Philadelphia Preservation Alliance Grand Jury Award for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

17th Edition Palladio Award for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

Excellence in Concrete Award in the Decorative Concrete category, Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware, for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

2017

DCA Construction Excellence Award for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8) Architects Newspaper Best of Design Awards for Lighting – Outdoor for Longwood’s Main Fountain Garden (West 8)

Most Innovative Firm of the Year in the Architecture Sector, Fast Company (West 8) Municipal Art Society of New York Award for Best New Urban Landscape for Governors Island (West 8)

Architizer A+ Awards, Jury Winner in the Public Park Category for Governors Island (West 8)

Claire Agre, One of Fixr’s 2017 Top 100 Influencers in Landscape Architecture and Design

American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Honor Award in General Design for Governors Island (West 8)

AZ Awards Finalist in Public Landscape Category for Governors Island (West 8)

Merit Award, BSLA, “Stone Acres Farm,” Analysis and Planning Category (Reed Hilderbrand)

2016

The International Architecture Award for Phase 1 Governors Island Park & Public Space (West 8)

American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Merit Award for The Giving Delta (West 8)

American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Honor Award for Longwood Gardens Master Plan (West 8)

American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Honor Award for Governors Island Phase 1 (West 8)

2014

Beverly Willis Foundation Award Winner, “Sites Built by Women New York City,” Landscape Category, for Governors Island Phase 1 (West 8)

American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award, “Bigger Darby,” Analysis & Planning Category (Ohio State University)

2013

Two-Star Certification, SITES, Pete V. Domenici Courthouse, (Rios Clementi Hale Studios)

2012

First Place, Fort Mason Center Competition, San Francisco (West 8)

American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter Honor Award for Governors Island Master Plan (West 8)

American Institute of Architects Honor Award for New Orleans Riverfront Master Plan (Hargreaves Associates)

2009

First Place, Seoul Station Redevelopment Competition (Surface Design)

Team Finalist,’ Rising Currents Exhibition, MoMA NY (Surface Design)

Best Green Product Award for ‘Project Frog Modular Classroom,’ Greenbuild (ProjectFrog)

2008

American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for New Orleans Riverfront Master Plan (for work with Hargreaves Associates),

Claire Agre - American Society of Landscape Architects Certificate of Merit, Student Work