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Mr. Richardson is a Licensed Landscape Architect with 30 year career of comprehensive design practice, including owning design firm for 20 years and direct experience in the following areas of practice: Corporate Campus, office, hospitality and resort, retail, multi-family, community design, institutional/educational, and residential. His strengths include:

• Developing large, complex designs from conceptualization through construction process

• Visualizing and developing three dimensional understanding of sites, particularly with respect to topographic design and constructability

• Strong expertise in site design based on topographic conditions
  

•  Coordinating well with other design consultants and disciplines – architects, engineers, etc. in achieving project synthesis

• Developing design teams for clients, including recruitment and management 

• Understanding the big picture: exceeding client’s goals by considering larger issues with respect site development, such as re-directing project type based on site conditions, economic returns and political and community acceptance

• Developing construction budgets during early planning stages, and developing design drawings that meet budget requirements.

• Due to national practice, working in varied environmental conditions, from subtropical to northern states, including temperature, plants, and soil types

• Developing strong, detailed sets of construction documents that prevent unnecessary change orders during construction implementation on large projects.

• Designing passive / natural design processes in lieu of engineering solutions to storm water management, thus saving money and providing more aesthetic solutions

•  Business development, office management of design firm up to twelve employees

Edward Lamont Tarlton, Ph.D.