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 Timmons Group is committed to environmental stewardship in our standard design practices as well as our corporate operations. Environmental scientists, landscape architects, and civil engineers routinely team together to create sensitive, sustainable site designs, and we delight in helping our clients make informed decisions to minimize the impacts of development. Timmons Group has been an active member of the US Green Building Council since 2000, and more than 20% of our design staff are LEED® Accredited Professionals. We have numerous LEED certified and registered projects to our credit, including such prestigious examples as the first LEED Gold certified K-12 school and the first LEED certified Federal Prison.
Our approach to sustainable design focuses on protecting the existing ecosystem, and restoring degraded areas, to the maximum extent possible within the context of the typical development process- often at little or no additional cost to the project. Many sustainable design practices have been used for years, but the successful implementation of the full-range of today’s available measures often requires extensive experience.
We understand that all decisions made regarding site layout and infrastructure must consider the potential impacts on the surrounding communities. Site plans are specifically designed to reflect sensitivity to biologically significant areas in order to minimize habitat disturbance and provide for ecological restoration as needed. Construction issues are managed by a staged approach to protect the natural resources of a given site. In keeping with our client’s vision, and our own sense of responsibility and awareness, we strive to integrate sustainable concepts at every phase of design and construction.
Timmons Group’s in-house civil, environmental and geotechnical design engineers, landscape architects/land planners, construction specialists and horticulturalists are accustomed to working together to incorporate key components of sustainable design which are critical to the success of a project.
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