The Care of Trees Receives Environmental Preservation Award
For Immediate Release
January 14, 2010
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The Care of Trees’ Tree Preservation and Land Restoration Division was recently honored with a Loudoun County Environmental Preservation Award for achieving the highest standards of performance for the preservation of the county’s natural resources.
The award, presented by The Department of Building & Development, recognized the nationally accredited tree care firm for utilizing innovative trenchless silt fencing, root aeration matting, and other tree preservation techniques to protect the critical root zones of numerous mature trees at the future headquarters of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUCFC) in Herndon, Virginia.
The location consists of a 42-acre wooded site with a 125,000 square foot building designed by Kushimoto, Gordon, Dalaya (KGD) Architects of Rosslyn, Virginia, and AECOM/EDAW Landscape Architects, an international landscape architecture and planning firm with offices in nearby Alexandria, Virginia.
“This is a once in a lifetime project with a once in a lifetime client,” stated Ben Kushimoto of KGD.
The NRUCFC project executives walked the site numerous times with the entire design team during the planning and construction phases, stopping to look at individual outstanding trees slated for protection.
“It was a complete team effort from concept design and construction documents to site construction,”
explained Chris Cowles, Consulting Urban Forester with The Care of Trees.
Together with AECOM/EDAW, crews were able to come up with solutions that successfully protected trees and controlled sediment from the tree protection areas and on-site creek.
“I’m very proud of our crews,” Cowles continued. “They worked through some extreme weather to meet project deadlines and they installed some state-of-the-art protection and preservation measures which went above and beyond county standards.”
Environmental Preservation Award recipients must have met and exceeded all of the requirements of the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Handbook, the Loudoun County Facilities Standards Manual, and Chapter 1220 of the Codified Ordinances.
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