Macdonald Environmental Planning, PC http://mep-pc.com Fri, 28 May 2010 02:43:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hello world! http://mep-pc.com/hello-world/ http://mep-pc.com/hello-world/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 02:43:29 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell Welcome to PDX Chat. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

]]> http://mep-pc.com/hello-world/feed/ 1 Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center – Healing Environments Master Plan http://mep-pc.com/good-samaritan-regional-medical-center-healing-environments-master-plan/ http://mep-pc.com/good-samaritan-regional-medical-center-healing-environments-master-plan/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:05:14 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell http://mep-pc.com/?p=1321 Corvallis, Oregon


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ON THE BOARDS

The Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is underway with numerous expansion projects and the landscape is being improved significantly to meet the adopted standards.

One of the most vital additions to the campus is the introduction of a major Healing Garden adjacent to the Main Hospital Building, Heart Center and the New Ambulatory Services Center.  The garden will have a wonderful water feature which flows through the center of the garden, with a looping walkway that bridges over the spillway, a covered seating area, arbors, an elevated deck and arbor over a rain fed creek to wetland.  A wide variety of seating is provided for small meditative spaces to open table seating with umbrellas.  Ramps, stairs and varied paving materials are accessible for therapeutic sessions.

This garden will be the center piece of the campus offering many healing attributes both environmentally and for the users being patients, family, friends of patients, and staff.

]]> http://mep-pc.com/good-samaritan-regional-hospital-healing-garden/feed/ 0 'LEED for Landscapes' Finally! http://mep-pc.com/leed-for-landscapes-finally/ http://mep-pc.com/leed-for-landscapes-finally/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:19:32 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell http://mep-pc.com/?p=1191 As a LEED® Accredited Professional, I have read the USGBC LEED Reference Manual multiple times and spent months trying to memorize Indoor Environmental Quality credits. But let’s face it, all the clean air we pump into our buildings is from the outdoors. And as far as I know, buildings can’t generate clean air, plants do that. So, what about Outdoor Environmental Quality?

LEED for Landscapes

photo by Brandon Godfrey


As a LEED® Accredited Professional, I have read the USGBC LEED Reference Manual multiple times and spent months trying to memorize Indoor Environmental Quality credits. But let’s face it, all the clean air we pump into our buildings is from the outdoors. And as far as I know, buildings can’t generate clean air, plants do that. So, what about Outdoor Environmental Quality?

The good news is that the United States launched its first voluntary rating system for sustainable landscapes in November, 2009. And it’s about time. The American Society of Landscape Architects, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanical Garden have partnered to develop the rating system. The system will be part of the Sustainable Sites Initiative, which will test a series of pilot projects over the next two years. Although Macdonald Environmental Planning, PC wasn’t able to submit for a pilot project, I can say that we are hopeful to participate in such projects in the future.

I am personally excited to see if the new LEED rating system for landscapes can generate as much interest in sustainable landscapes as it did for sustainable buildings. But more importantly, will the rating system challenge our traditional landscape model? And even so, will designers and contractors take it upon themselves to change their traditional work standards? Let’s hope so.

Bryan Bailey, LEED AP
Macdonald Environmental Planning, PC
503.224.1225

]]> http://mep-pc.com/leed-for-landscapes-finally/feed/ 0 Yakima Living Center http://mep-pc.com/yakima-living-center/ http://mep-pc.com/yakima-living-center/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:46 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell http://mep-pc.com/?p=1057 Yakima, Washington



This Senior Community incorporates retirement apartments, assisted living and skilled nursing all within a 8 acre campus filled with unique garden nodes spaced periodically along the village trail and walks. The looping trail system allows residents to meet friends at a variety of gardens including a rose garden, perennial gardens, raised plant beds and even a quick stop by at the Village Center for refreshments. Macdonald Environmental Planning was responsible for the development of the outdoor garden spaces, the trails, walkways, the Alzheimer’s courtyard and the village center café patio.

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Trenton Terrace is a highly-livable home provides 66-units, low-income, independent senior living apartments in a building located on a .9 acre site within North Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood
A thin, transparent bridge connection links the east and west wings, affording natural light and a view to the south terrace and the grand heritage tree which the project was planned. Greening elements include stormwater swales that treat the roof and parking lot runoff onsite.

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The City of Redmond was developing a new Central Fire Station in the center of the city to consolidate and update the existing stations. MEPpc, was responsible for the irrigation and planting for the Central Oregon site. We utilized drought and cold tolerant plantings to achieve a sustainable landscape over time.

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Initially this project was a 210 unit market rate apartments situated on approximately 7 acres in the Orenco Station light rail community. The landscape elements that we were responsible for included pocket parks, a mitigated wetland, a swimming pool and pool deck design and all the landscaping in the open spaces between the units. Later the project was converted to a condominium community and we were then asked to add the privacy fences between the units and the neighborhood connectivity walkways.

]]> http://mep-pc.com/club-1201/feed/ 0 Tamarack Village http://mep-pc.com/tamarack-village/ http://mep-pc.com/tamarack-village/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:09:03 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell http://mep-pc.com/?p=999 Sisters, Oregon


Tamarack Village was a 33 unit affordable housing project for CORHA located in Sisters, Oregon. We provided the irrigation, landscape and play area design for this project.

]]> http://mep-pc.com/tamarack-village/feed/ 0 Olsen Residence http://mep-pc.com/olsen-residence/ http://mep-pc.com/olsen-residence/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:48:32 +0000 Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell http://mep-pc.com/?p=996 Crosswater, Oregon


The Olsen Residence was built in Crosswater, Oregon and located on the Crosswater G.C. It was a lodge like construction which used natural rock for the spa and patio off the rear of the home. We provided detailed design of the irrigation and landscape to meet with the Design Standards for Crosswater. Many native species were planted in this foot hill microclimate near Sunriver Oregon.

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