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All services provided for construction projects is offered only with oversight from registered professionals including civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, landscape architects, and/or others. Green Girl LDS does not have or employ any in-house registered professionals and does not make final decisions or submit drawings for permit. |
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5000 Acres Initiative
Beaverton & Portland, OR
2009-present |
A DEQ 319 water quality grant was awarded to Tualatin Riverkeepers to maximize canopy cover in existing parking lots without losing parking spaces. Using structural soil, a 12’ wide continuous trench supports tree health & vehicular loads. |
- Coordinate teams to implement demonstration sites at Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation District's Sunset Swim Center (Beaverton/Clean Water Services jurisdiction) and PCC Sylvania (Portland jurisdiction)
- Assist with engineering design & modeling to obtain permits (retrofit in Portland & redevelopment in Beaverton)
- Create Operations & Maintenance Manual
- Collaborate with PCC staff and provide trainings on stormwater, urban canopy, and structural soil
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Multnomah Antiques
Portland, OR
2011-present |
A commercial redevelopment of a constrained urban site. Includes a rain garden, vegetated wall, depaving, & native plants, overland conveyance, & soil restoration. |
- Engineering design
- Provided information and helped team implement best practices for soil restoration, erosion control, & habitat.
- Landscape design review
- Developed Maintenance Manual for site
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Bend Stormwater Demonstrations
Bend, OR
2011-2012 |
Working as a subcontractor to HWA, engineering consultant to the City of Bend Transportation Department. Project uses infiltration rain gardens and planters to solve flooding at a downtown site and to meet new stormwater management standards for planned sidewalks under a Safe Routes to School grant at a more suburban site. |
- Design review and technical assistance
- Develop maintenance & monitoring plam
- Provide quality assurance
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St. Andrews Lutheran Church
Beaverton/Washington County, OR
2010-2012 |
A faith community that expanded their building and reconfirgured parking to meet current development standards. Project includes rain gardens & native buffer restoration. |
- Design review and technical assistance by providing design modifications to engineering grading & details
- Construction meeting with contractors to help them meet post-construction functional goals for rain gardens
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Coos Watershed Association
Coos Bay, OR
2010-2011 |
A 5-acre green field where the new Food Bank, Head Start, and Child & Family Resource Center buildings will be built. Site amenities designed around existing sensitive wetlands include parking, sidewalks, community garden, playground, and gathering spaces. |
- Assembled an LID Technical Assistance team through an OR DEQ 319 grant to assist Oregon Coast Community Action
- Reviewed master plan
- Reviewed engineering and landscape design and provided designs, details and specifications for porous pavement, rain gardens, soil protection and restoration, and erosion prevention and sediment control.
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Trillium Hill
Tigard, OR
2008-2009
Featured Project: Click here for a cut sheet |
A proposed aging-in-place conservation development on 3.2 acres to include saved trees, universal streets, rainwater harvesting, vegetated basins, a public access path through the site, and many non-structural practices. |
- Design review and technical assistance to the developer and design team of the master plan and design documents
- Developed and facilitated eco-charrette workshop
- Ongoing: Provide narratives, details, and decision making guidance on most appropriate best management practices
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Redding School for the Arts
Redmond, CA
2008-2009
Featured Project: Click here for a cut sheet |
A charter school on 20 acres with rainwater harvesting, native landscapes, teaching and gathering spaces, and a woonerf drop-off area to slow traffic and increase safety. Subconsultant to Shapiro-Didway Landscape Architecture. |
- Design review and technical assistance
- Attended brainstorming meeting to calm traffic at drop-off
- Performed literature review and generated decision-making report comparing water quality of different facilities
- designed and modeled the water quality facilities and trouble shoot construction issues
- Assisted with LEED documentation on stormwater
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BLM's Marmot Dam Visitor Amenities
near Marmot, OR
2009
Featured Project: Click here for a cut sheet |
A Bureau of Land Management redevelopment of the removed dam to provide visitor amenities. |
- Worked collaboratively on a grading approach to limit disturbance
- Cut and fill calculations
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A proposed grain storage building on an infill site that incorporate vegetated swales and an infiltration basin, overland flow, good materials choices, native plants, and artwork. |
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Granary District Properties
8th & Lafayette Mixed Use, McMinnville, OR
2009 |
A mixed-use redevelopment that saves trees, limits disturbance, and accommodates stormwater management in vegetated basins. |
- Redesigned master plan of site to save money and increase sustainability
- Coordinated with the City of McMinnville to establish design standards and performed infiltration testing
- Provided an informal set of plans to communicate ideas to the design team as well as specifications, details, and additional non-spatical sustainable approaches to be considered.
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Liftparts of Oregon
Portland, OR
2008 |
A manufacturing company looking for ways to bring their underground injection control (UIC) stormwater system into compliance with new regulations. Consultant to WaterTech. |
- Design review and technical assistance
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Yoga Calm
Portland, OR
2009 |
A redevelopment to add a home office building on a site constrained by steep slopes and a high water table. |
- Performed a feasibility site visit to recommend reasonable stormwater strategies
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Five Counties Salmonid Conservation Program
Northern CA
2012 |
Outreach effort to Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Siskyou, and Del Norte county residents and small developers to reduce water consumption and manage stormwater. |
- Developed a body of interconnected fact sheets: Minimize Impervious Areas, Disconnect Impervious Areas, Restore Disturbed Soil, Build a Rain Garden, Build a Rain Barrel, Harvest Rainwater in a Cistern, Test Your Soil, Siting Bioretention for Infiltration, Find Native Plants in Your County, Amend Soils for Bioretention, Convey Water in Swales
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Earth Advantage Commercial Building Program
Portland, OR
2009 |
A green building certification program for small commercial buildings |
- Review, comment, and provide resources
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Oregon State University Extension's
Tree Protection on Construction and Development Sites
Salem, OR
2009
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A statewide field book created to educate contractors about the importance of trees and strategies for saving them |
- Review, comment, and provide resources
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Spiro Landscapes Sustainability Framework
Portland, OR
2009 |
A landscape design and maintenance framework for evaluating and improving the sustainability of existing residential and campus properties |
- Review, comment, provide resources and discuss in detail with client
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Oregon State University Extension SWAMP
Salem, OR
2009-2011 |
Stormwater Assessment and Management decision-support Process is a tool to help municipalities with rapidly urbanizing coastal communities in Oregon adopt low impact development strategies |
- Review, re-write and write from scratch fact sheets
- Provide and develop additional resources such as specifications and AutoCAD details
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Oregon Environmental Council's Stormwater Solutions
Portland, OR
2009 |
An outreach program for municipalities, developers, engineers, landscape architects and others interested in learning about low impact development stormwater management approaches |
- Review, comment, and provide resources for LID overview brochure
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Workshop Development & Public Speaking |
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Oregon Environmental Council's Stormwater Solutions
Eugene & Grants Pass, OR |
An outreach program for municipalities, developers, engineers, landscape architects and others interested in learning about low impact development stormwater management approaches |
- Sustainable Principles for Land Development: Presented an overview on sustainable principles for land development and a number of low-cost best management practices
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Oregon Environmental Council's Stormwater Solutions LID from Start to Finish
Eugene, OR |
An all-day workshop on LID from the early planning phases through design, construction, and operations and maintenance. Learning objectives include holistic thinking and big picture ideas for approaching site development. |
- Developed workshop and facilitated
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Portland Community College's Summer Sustainability Institute
Portland, OR |
A class geared to train educators about sustainbility |
- Developed a talk with a focus on developing curriculum around sustainable land development principles and practices
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American Society of Civil Engineers
Portland, OR |
Developed a tour of green infrastructure in Portland for the EWRI Congress 2014 - Portland, Oregon "Water Without Borders" |
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR |
A 400/500 level class on the technical aspects of landscape design for stormwater and habitat and soil restoration |
- Developed a talk and tour in Portland with the class' focus in mind
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Central Oregon Community College
Bend, OR |
A green building class for professionals |
- Developed a talk and tour in Portland with the class' focus in mind
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Rain Gardens 201 Technical Field Class
Portland, OR |
A class I created to fill in the gaps of other classes being taught regionally on Rain gardens and other. vegetated stormwater facilities |
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