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When a local rural community learned that a major electrical substation was planned for an open paddock just minutes from their small "living heritage" township of Pomona, in the Noosa hinterland, they were understandably horrified!   Our practice had been commissioned to prepare landscape construction documentation for...

Trees - especially eucalypts - and electrical substations don't mix (just ask Energex!).  However, at Griffin there was an exception, and we had the opportunity to broker a compromise to integrate a significant tree as part of the landscape screening fronting a major connecting road....

The conventional challenge for Energex is to interweave landscape buffer zones among incompatible service corridors. Our priority with all such installations is to design planting zones in a way that creates a suitable landscape setting - we like to think of it as a "home"...

When Dubbo Regional Council planned its new Sewage Treatment facility in open rural land north of the city, there was understandable concern about its visual impact on the adjacent pastoral landscape.   Our practice was asked to prepare plans that could be implemented to provide appropriate visual...

Single family housing fronted this major entry road into a significant newly planned residential community estate in the Redlands Shire, so it was vital to create a landscape buffer between roadway and houses. The maturing landscape buffer was a successful win-win solution. The residents were...

Stormwater runoff was a major design focus for this substation west of Brisbane. Gravel lined overland flow paths were configured into the landscape to capture and re-direct runoff around the substation to available stormwater collection points within the site....

Set in the midst of a new residential area in the southern Sunshine Coast, the primary design objective for this electrical substation was to lessen the visual impact on its many neighbours - as well as dodging the numerous underground services located in the "landscape-able"...