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CV / RESUME
PROJECTS 6 10 16
DOUTHIT HILLS, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 2015 ULI HINES COMPETITION CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
REPORTS 20 RIVERSMART 22 NEOSHO 24 CAPITOL HEIGHTS 28 MOUNT RAINIER
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hi, Enclosed in this portfolio is a small sampling of the variety and type of work completed post-undergraduate study. This portfolio is accompanied by a web version where further information can be found as well as full text versions of the reports and studies references herein. Some of the work presented here is better reviewed in full since much of the work was formatting, writing, analysis, and research. This short letter is to present some of the skill sets that are often difficult to present in graphic from. These include things like computer program proficiency, model building tools, and photography. Heres a list of some of these: • • • • • • • • •
AutoCAD / Civil 3D / Vehicle Turn ArcGIS / ArcOnline / Story Maps Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Suite Rhino / Plugins SketchUp / VRay Tableau Analytics 10 / Power BI Revit Laser Cutter / 3D Printing
Again, the web version lends itself more to some of this work so please check it out here:
After graduating my from college, I started work immediately as an environmental planner and landscape designer with the Low Impact Development Center (LID Center). This experience working on projects that varied from large green infrastructure implementation plans, to small community planning initiatives and community meetings truly shaped my professional outlook. From the LID Center I took a deep rooted belief that sustainability and planning are inextricably linked to landscape architecture. This belief I carried with me through to both Ayers Saint Gross and the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, and ultimately led me to pursue my degree in urban and regional planning at Georgetown, where I am currently studying. To further this pursuit I drive to establish an essential nexus between technical resources, forward thinking sustainable technologies, post occupancy metrics, and intuition. At this nexus, I believe is the best design. I look forward to positions in both landscape architecture and urban planning where I can best utilize my skills and drive forward this pursuit.
http://dougadavies.com/portfolio Now onto more of me.
Thanks,
doug davies
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resume education
georgetown university, washington dc •
masters of urban and regional planning, expected graduation spring 2018
university of maryland, college park •
bachelor of landscape architecture, spring 2010
experience Ayers Saint Gross July 2014 - September 2016 landscape architect • associate project manager on a 200M+ construction project at Clemson University, including extensive Construction Administration role • role in planning and design of several university/campus focused projects including housing, student life, and academic facilities • created and modified Construction Documents and Specifications for a myriad of project types and scales • strong involvement with client meetings, project presentations, and site visits • worked closely with project manager to ensure budget, scope and project goals were aligned
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy August 2013 - July 2014 community design specialist • assisted and collaborated on grant writing and administration • led research project assessing local stormwater codes and ordinances, and survey determining local stormwater understanding • assisted in organization wide strategic and work planning
The Low Impact Development Center May 2010 - August 2013 environmental planner and landscape designer • collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, planners, landscape architects, and environmental scientists • developed community stormwater planning guidance, design manuals, and standards to identify ways to implement best management practices within the Chesapeake Bay watershed • designed bioretention facilities and green and complete street project designs • developed construction documents and permit applications
University of Maryland, College Park January 2012 - Current adjunct lecturer • curriculum included two courses: Graduate Digital Drafting and Undergraduate Digital Fundamentals • prepared new curriculum for Digital Fundamentals including lesson plans, exercises, and final project • digital tools include AutoCAD 2013, ArcGIS 10.1, the Adobe Suite, and Trimble SketchUp
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American Society of Landscape Architects Maryland Landscape Architect #3802
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Douthit Hills, Clemson University
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Above: Bldg A view (professional rendering); Right: Aerial view of project (professional rendering)
OVERVIEW Located along the entrance to Clemson University, the Douthit Hills Student Community project sits on over 65 acres of former suburban housing development along SC Highway 93. The project contains eight buildings, seven student housing, and one HUB building containing a residential dining facility, a campus bookstore, a fitness center along with other services for residents in this part of the campus. The Douthit Hills Project is Clemson Universities largest ever construction project. The site contained two types of housing, conventional upperclassmen suites, and transitional (bridge) housing for students transferring in from the local community college. This arrangement stressed the importance of creating a landscape that linked the upperclassmen with the campus they have come to know, and introducing
and connecting the transitional students with their new environment. This was accomplished through the central location of the HUB building, as well as ensuring that both the upperclassmen and bridge students had exterior spaces to come together.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Beginning in 2012, the Douthit Hills project began before my tenure at Ayers Saint Gross. Quickly adapting to an in-progress project, my first major role in 2014 for the Douthit Hills project was to restart the design process after the project went on a year-long hold. Adjusting the design based on budgetary constraints and shifting program from the University, I worked to both advance the construction documents as well as develop presentation graphics
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Clockwise from top left: Central HUB Building (professional rendering); Bridge Housing View (professional rendering); Pool Concept Drawings and diagrams for meetings with the client and larger design team. These design studies included modifications to the pool landscape, HUB surrounding Landscape, and all of the ADA accessible walkways, and a central pedestrian bridge connecting the west housing to the HUB building. In addition to working on design studies, I oversaw the documentation process from design development through 100% construction documents. This included tree preservation, hardscape, landscape, soils, elevations, details, and FF&E. The final document set was over 50 sheets in length, all organized and developed utilizing a documentation system developed specifically for the project by myself with guidance from senior staff. The organization and sheet structure was unique as it was the largest project ASG-Landscape had undertaken, thus detail references, callouts, and planting plans were necessary to be parametric, and dynamically linked to ensure accuracy across the document set. This documentation methodology was then
rolled out to all projects under construction at ASG. My role continued through construction administration as I oversaw and was the first point of contact for RFI’s, submittal’s, and ASI’s. The project is currently still under construction with a completion date set sometime in late 2018.
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2015 ULI HINES COMPETITION
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Sustainability Diagram
OVERVIEW The ULI Hines Student Competition is an urban design and development challenge for graduate students. The competition engages multidisciplinary student teams to devise a comprehensive development program for a real, large-scale site. Teams of five students representing at least three disciplines have two weeks to develop solutions that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. All graphics are my own work unless otherwise noted.
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Midtown Circuit is a healthy, innovative community where the technologic, artistic and civic-minded residents of Atlanta come together to build a brighter future. Posed as a central node in the burgeoning multi-modal circulation system of Atlanta’s metro area, Midtown Circuit offers an environment where residents and visitors are empowered to make healthy choices. The neighborhood is built on the concept of perpetual change, where the built environment can accommodate the changing needs of the businesses and families that call the community home. Similarly, the built environment reflects the health of the community, using technology to artistically communicate environmental
sidewalks and prioritize pedestrian rightof-way. The park-like environment extends south and north to the Bank of America and AT&T Building street frontages. The Hub, Midtown Circuit’s largest mixeduse development project acts as the motherboard for the community and the most striking vertical way-finder. The street front retail on Ponce De Leon Ave and Spring Street provide ample space for local businesses to take root including a local grocery selling fresh produce. The Hub also harbors open building concept style residences with floor plans that can change and grow in square footage to meet the needs of the owner, as well as a childcare center and a ¼ mile public running track. This intelligent building harvests solar power on the southern facades and uses roof gardens to retain and filter water. The building also contains
Metro Park Section Elevation and social achievements and goals.
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The journey begins to the east connecting the North Ave Streetcar, bike lines on Ponce De Leon Ave, and the North Ave MARTA station to the development proposal. The metro station provides a public park with native tree and shrub plantings neighboring the historic Station 11 and a new hotel. The walkable development progresses toward the west across integrated complete streetscapes, which provide shaded
a Silkscreen, or digital façade, that displays real-time energy and water usage in the community as well as information such as ‘community miles run’ to promote public awareness of all aspects of sustainability. The concept of adaptability crosses the street to the lab and office facilities that border Georgia Tech’s Technology Square. These lab spaces are modeled to grow with the startups and mixes technology and art providing open access studios and prototyping spaces.
Site Plan (by others)
SUSTAINABILITY The west edge of Midtown Circuit celebrates the legacy Olympic torch as a focal point for community awareness and a beacon for the community’s largest park. Torch Park runs between the Civic Center and the Downtown Connector uniting William’s Street with North Ave at The Varsity via pathways, recreation space, gardens, and bike paths. The development is seeking LEED Platinum certification, but the intention for sustainability does not end there. The community offers a holistic approach to new development in Atlanta. It recognizes the need for continuous,
visual community engagement and spaces that can change over time to incorporate new technologies. The development’s foundation is community involvement, which will ensure the community continues to grow, produce new ideas, and provide safe, healthy spaces for the people of Midtown to call home. Later stages of the development could include a new elementary school and additional mixeduse retail and residences in neighboring parcels.
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PHASING Midtown Circuit phasing will begin by connecting to the existing Technology Square by extending its corridor to the south with flexible Wet/Dry Lab office space. This office space will act as a financial stepping stone to the high density mixed use project proposed as “The Hub” of the development.
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The larger deal dubbed “The Hub” will contain close to 2M SF of mixed-use areas to create an elevated level of convenience to all of the residents. With over 900 residential units, 200K SF of office, 40K SF community center space and retail at the base of the building “The Hub” will serve as an example of community high-rise living. We have allocated and encourage The Partnership to include twenty percent of all residential and retail units in key locations as affordable housing and retail to boost equitable growth in the City of Atlanta. In return, The Partnership would structure leases to absorb the Work Opportunity Tax Credit from local retail tenants and give jobs to over 200 employees in the development. Construction loan payments will be
decreased by subdividing construction into phase II.A. (The Hub) and II.B. (North Ave. Marta Station Park and Hotel). The hotel will provide crucial accessibility to the existing MARTA station by purchasing the air rights above the station and leasing the ground floor from The City of Atlanta. With cooperation from the city, additional exit points could be incorporated around the adjacent street corners of North Avenue Station. During phase II The Partnership would reclaim the impervious surfaces of the MARTA station and extend the urban design elements across West Peachtree toward the All Saints Episcopal areas. This urban design scheme will make “The Hub” community more accessible to the public and improve quality of space, maximizing the tax credits provided by the Community Improvement District (CID). Finally, the value of properties will be solidified by the inclusion of a Civic/Cultural Center that will foster heritage and engage the community as a whole.
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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
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OVERVIEW The following drawing sets were developed during my time at Ayers Saint Gross. As all projects go, not all the work in these sets were developed by myself. These drawing sets represent the three projects I was most intimately involved with, thus much of what you see was developed by myself.
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RiverSmart LID Demonstration Working in conjunction with the District Department of the Environment, AECOM, and Limnotech two project sites were selected to be target neighborhoods in evaluating the effectiveness of Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure technologies in both the combined sewer system (CSS) and the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) areas of the
Piney Branch Watershed in Washington, DC as part of the Long Term Control Plan Modification for Green Infrastructure. The project site presented here is located in a primarily single-family home neighborhood adjacent to a public school. As a member of this project team, I was tasked with assisting in locating and
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designing the LID facilities. Tasks included preparing graphics, modeling stormwater retention in ArcGIS, and construction drawings.
MODELING The project site was modeled and monitored for the months preceding the project to get baseline flow data for the green street improvements. In the graphic above, the green infrastructure practices
are added to the baseline model to be analyzed for water quality and quantity calculations.
GRAPHICS An integral part to the project was to develop graphics illustrating how the green infrastructure improvements would look upon completion of the project. This phase of the project was influenced by community input.
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Neosho Green Infrastructure Guidebook The Neosho Green Infrastructure Guidebook was a project administered under contract with Tetra Tech and EPA to provide Green Infrastructure technical assistance to various communities throughout the nation. The Neosho project included code revisions and planning approaches for the integration of Green Infrastructure into community development. The project included the
development of master plans, standards, and design concepts. Highlighted here, are two project sites along the Neosho River, one located adjacent to a large regional park that integrated green infrastructure practices along an extension of a nature trail that included water access, birdwatching pavilions, and wetland remediation sites.
The second, traverses a small stream that runs behind the high school and athletic fields. The site of major stream bank erosion, the parking lot and other porous areas are pulled back from the stream edge to allow for a vegetated filter strip to slow and capture stormwater before making its way to the stream. The high school is proposed to be retrofitted with a green roof to further reduce the stormwater impacts, while street trees and other plantings are placed to aid in further retention within the parking lots.
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Capitol Heights Green Infrastructure Plan The Capitol Heights Green Infrastructure Plan developed a vision for Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and transportation corridor linking the Capitol Heights Metro Station with downtown Capitol Heights. Supported by the Chesapeake Bay Trusts Green Streets Green Jobs Green Towns Initiative, the project focused on integrating stormwater management and low impact
development wherever possible. Stretching from the Capitol Heights Metro Station, south along Capitol Heights Boulevard to downtown Capitol heights, the corridor is heavily trafficked by commuters and residents to reach points throughout Maryland and Washington DC.
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existing conditions
sharrows
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This project explored integrating green infrastructure into TOD from the very beginning. Starting with the street and right-of-way infrastructure, we hope to set a precedent for future development within this corridor. Beginning with community input, we investigated what a comprehensive redevelopment project might look like along this corridor including mixed income housing, commercial space, green infrastructure, trail connections, parks, and the daylighting of a stream that runs northsouth alongside the corridor.
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GREEN STREET The residents were polled to determine which type of street infrastructure they liked best. In the end, two types were selected, the south section of the roadway would integrate sharrows due to width restrictions, making medians impossible. To the north, a large median would be introduced with street trees and wider sidewalks to improve pedestrian connections,and reduce traffic speeds. Sidewalks along the entire corridor were widened to include safe accessibility for wheelchairs, and ample space for street furniture, lighting, and stormwater management features.
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PARKS
PROJECT UPDATE
Capitol Heights, although not in full buildout conditions, has a lack of park space, with much of the undeveloped land either in disrepair, or fenced off. As such two parks were developed on plots of land that would have required extensive earthwork and stream relocation to develop upon. Linked by the green street corridor, these parks would serve future residents as well as serve as a gateway to the city.
The Capitol Heights Green Street Master Plan was one of seven finalists for the American Planning Association Maryland/ Delaware Chapter’s 2012 Planners’ Choice Award and took home second place under the “Great Plans” category. This award was created to highlight people, places, and activities that increased the public’s awareness of the role of planning within the state of Maryland. The Planners’ Choice Awards give recognition for exemplary planning to individuals who provided leadership and innovation, locations that are the result of excellent planning, and the process that results in best practices that can be replicated elsewhere.
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Mount Rainier Urban Green Infrastructure right-of-way improvements within Mount Rainier, as they are the most readily accessible for funding, and construction. For each roadway type in Mount Rainier a specialized plan was developed identifying where stormwater features could be implemented. A map of the most readily available street was provided as well, that identified where connections to
Zoning Breakdown OFH - One Family Housing ROW - Right of Way
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LID Controls with Impervious Surfaces %
CO - Commercial
MU - 4% CO - 2%
IN - Industrial OS - Open Space
storm drains would be feasible. My role in this project was as project lead. Project was completed by other staff upon my exit.
Tree Cover Type Tree Cover Impervious Area Covered by Trees
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Comprised of two distinct phases, the project looked, from a modeling perspective, at the OS - 1% makeup of the City IN - 1% including land use, urban tree/forest canopy, and impervious cover. From this data, representative parcels were developed for each zoning type, and modeled using the EPA Stormwater Calculator. Each representative parcel was modeled primarily for retention of the 1.2 inch stormwater event, and cost effectiveness. The second phase of the project focused on
MFH - Multi Family Housing
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This project looked at the potential to use Green Infrastructure to create attractive and accessible streets along the commercial corridor and residential neighborhoods within Mount Rainier, Maryland. This included opportunities to retrofit streets and private properties with green infrastructure practices. To accomplish this, we utilized the recently released EPA National Stormwater Calculator to help develop retrofit templates that would result in the most effective approaches for the community. This project was funded % through a Technical Assistance Grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
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abbreviations
dd- downspout disconnect rh- rainwater harvesting rg- rain garden sp- stormwater planter gr- green roof pp- porous pavements
Permeable Parking Lane
Permeable Sidewalk
Stormwater Curb Extension
Permeable Parking Lane
Street Planter
Permeable Sidewalk
Bike Lane
Stormwater Curb Extension
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