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Landscape Architecture

Permits, Feasibility Studies, Master Planning, Rezoning, Site Analysis, Resilience Planning

We work to ensure that communities have what they need to grow and prosper, planning places where people live, work, shop, and play by improving community development and transportation systems, with a distinct focus of preserving the environment. Our team of landscape architects has the unique blend of artistic vision, engineering expertise, and seasoned experience with residential, institutional, and commercial planning and design for creating well-planned, well-executed, and stunning environments.

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Site Design

Site Design

Site Planning & Design involves applying knowledge of environmental, social, and economic issues of a site with proper building placement, efficient parking, and logical vehicular and pedestrian circulation, among many other site and cultural factors.

Urban Design

Urban Design

We plan and design for buildings, public spaces, transit systems, and other municipal services by giving shape and character to building massing, pedestrian walks, plazas, site furnishings, street trees, lighting, and material selection.

Landscape Design

Landscape Design

Our goal is to understand each client’s needs and provide creative and problem-solving design solutions. Landscape Design is not “landscaping” or simply planting design, it covers the broadest reaching land development concepts to very detailed design work, spanning from large commercial endeavors to small backyard retreats. Landscape Design is a comprehensive review of planting, surfacing materials, exterior structures, topographic form, and infrastructure for a site in support of a specific set of design criteria and programming.

Resiliency

Resiliency

In order to withstand environmental disasters, land and development is said to be “resilient.” Most often, for Tidewater and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plains, the largest environmental disasters have to do with water. Since we are so close to the ocean and so flat, our threats come in the form of flooding from stormwater runoff, storm surges, and tidal surges, Coupled with sinking ground and an increase in storm frequency and oceanic water levels, many other related problems come to light: erosion, structural damage, road impassability, etcetera. At WPL, we know how to stabilize a shorelines while improving water quality, protecting wetlands, and incorporating Low Impact Development (LID) practices and other means so that a waterfront property can be functional and attractive, resisting damage from flooding and storms.

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Stormwater Management

The practice of reducing site runoff, flooding, stream bank erosion, habitat destruction, sewer overflows, infrastructure damage and contaminated streams, rivers and coastal waters.

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Construction Administration

WPL had led the industry in construction administration for over 30 years. Our team of highly skilled professionals executes efficiently through experience and dedication to their clients.

Able to mold to whatever the project needs are, WPL can enhance project success by offering the following services:

  • Attending pre-construction meetings
  • Processing and reviewing shop drawings
  • Conducting periodic site inspection and issuing corresponding inspection report after each visit
  • Attending mid-month site meetings
  • Attending end of month site progress and payment meetings
  • Processing and approving contractor’s payment requests
  • Responding to contractor RFIs in a timely manner
  • Issuing notices of corrective actions required to the contractor concerning faulty or unacceptable work, if necessary
  • Reviewing and approving related closeout documentation provided by the contractor
  • Performing inspection of the completed work after substantial completion, and issuing a punch list
  • Performing a final compliance inspection of previously issued punch list items

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CBPA Site Design

The development practices occurring within the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area (CBPA) watershed are critical to the Bay’s existence and in turn, your health, safety, and welfare. WPL has an extremely successful record submitting detailed survey and design projects to the local CBPA Review Boards.

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Design Development

WLP’s disciplines work harmoniously with each other, transitioning a design from the schematic design phase to the construction documentation design phase. Design Development aims to further develop schematic designs into more detailed plans and articulation.

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Environmental Preservation

Environmental preservation is a way of life. Our firm believes in this ideology and strives to preserve, restore, and improve land and our quality of life through design.

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Planting Design

A design art that requires a professional knowledge in horticulture and an effective use of living materials in the design of environments that function well, sustain themselves over time, and harmonize aesthetically with their surroundings.

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Feasibility Studies

Land evaluation, Site analysis, Recurrent flooding + resiliency

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Mixed-Use Neighborhoods

We design for neighborhoods that offer a range of housing types where services and goods are nearby and encourage walking, biking, and local transit. We also produce Community improvement and Enhancement plans to help restore and revitalize existing communities that suffer from an aging housing stock, low ownership, or neglect.