Designing your site is like harvesting the productive use of your land resource. Increasingly, it also means managing the environmental resources that impact your site. From wetlands constraints to low-impact design (LID), from site layout to water and wastewater infrastructure engineering, and from on-site traffic management to green building design, each design element represents the management of resources in the built environment.
Woodard & Curran begins the concept planning stage with a site constraints analysis to provide clients with an opportunity to re-evaluate the feasibility and potential success of the project based on site-specific information. Our project teams are set up to deliver cost-efficient site designs by incorporating remedial strategies and permitting requirements to the design process.
LID techniques are incorporated into the preliminary design process with a focus on creating sustainable stormwater management practices. Once the preliminary designs receive required approvals, final designs are prepared to add detail information that is necessary for construction.
Woodard & Curran’s in-house Quality Assurance/Quality Control program requires all design products to be rigorously reviewed by senior staff prior to issue. This step is critical to minimizing field changes, thus controlling construction change orders and costs.
Project Highlights
Brownfield Redevelopment
Pharmaceutical Company
Read about Woodard & Curran's brownfield redevelopment project for this global pharmaceutical company.
Brownfield Redevelopment for Retail Use
Target Corporation, CT
Read about Woodard & Curran's brownfield redevelopment work for Target.
Brownfields Redevelopment
City of Portland, ME
Redevelopment of a 7-acre urban brownfield site in the City of Portland required collaboration with several stakeholders and an extensive permitting process. The City teamed with several consultants, including Woodard & Curran, for site planning and design services. The team helped transition the master plan of the Bayside area to the development phase, with a dominant portion of the project encompassing the permitting and construction of a 700-space parking garage.
Renovation/Development of Athletic Fields
Rye Country Day School, NY
A 138-year-old school in Rye, New York, wanted to renovate its two aging grass athletic fields into synthetic turf fields and construct two additional fields to accommodate multiple sports teams. Woodard & Curran developed a renovation/development project featuring the use of synthetic turf to reduce field maintenance costs, eliminate fertilizer and pesticide use, and increase field access and availability. With a flexible, innovative design, Woodard & Curran met the client’s fast-track schedule. The firm was awarded a 2006 Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York for its innovative work on this project.
Urban Redevelopment
University of Southern Maine
To cope with rising enrollment and an increased demand for parking and classroom space, the University of Southern Maine developed a LEED-gold-certified, 15,000-sq.-ft. building that includes office space and classrooms, a lecture hall; and a 5-level, 1,200-car parking garage. A crucial milestone with the project was getting permit approval of the garage. Architect Einhorn Yaffee Prescott relied on Woodard & Curran to manage the permit process, assist with preliminary site evaluations and a public outreach and participation process. The new building opened to rave reviews in time for a new semester.