2012 CSI Firms and Projects Announced

Over 20 design firms and 30 projects have been selected for LAF’s 2012 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. This unique research collaboration matches LAF-funded faculty-student research teams with leading practitioners to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects as Landscape Performance Series Case Study Briefs.

Participating firms were selected based on the quality of projects submitted, potential to produce comprehensive quantified benefits, availability of baseline information, and commitment to the research collaboration. Practitioners provide the background information and narrative for projects, help identify potential performance benefits and information to quantify them, and provide the faculty-student research teams with access to key project personnel, photos, documents, clients, and other stakeholders.

The collaborations are now underway — look for updates throughout the summer and new Case Study Briefs in the fall from these participating firms and projects:

• AECOM
  Stuyvesant Cove Waterfront Open Space
• Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute
  Beijing Olympic Forest Park
  Tangshan Nanhu Eco-city Central Park
• The Berger Partnership
  Magnuson Park Wetlands
• CDF, Inc.
  Queens Botanical Garden Visitor Center
  Charles City Permeable Streetscape
• Design Workshop
  Cherry Creek North & Fillmore Plaza
  South Grand Boulevard Great Streets Initiative
  Park Avenue/ Highway 50
• Ecological Landscape Design & Restoration
  Stone Mill at the New York Botanical Garden
• EDSA
  Castiglion del Bosco
• EPT Design
  Frontier Project
  Sonia Sotomayor Learning Academies
• Jones and Jones
  Cedar Lake Park and Trail
• KMS Design Group
  Black Rock Sanctuary
• Mia Lehrer + Associates
  Vista Hermosa Natural Park
• MIG, Inc.
  West San Gabriel River Parkway Nature Trail
• Mithun
  Eden Hall Campus at Chatham University
  High Point
  Hubbard Homestead Park
• Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
  Tujunga Wash Greenway
• OLIN
  Celebrezze Federal Building Plaza
• Frederick Law Olmsted
  Back Bay Fens
• Reed Hilderbrand
  Central Wharf Plaza
• Sasaki
  The Avenue
• SWA Group
  Cross Creek Ranch
• TBG
  Park Seventeen
• UW Campus Sustainability Fund
  Biodiversity Green Wall & Water Harvesting System
• Wells Appel
  Pennswood Village Regional Storm Water Quality and Management System