Case Study Brent Civic Centre Due to the planned opening of the new Brent Civic Centre in the spring of 2012, Willerby Landscapes were challenged in the January to deliver a quality hard and so landscaping scheme within 12 weeks, comprising of over 1440m2 Pallas paving, 567m of granite ses, 500m of stainless steel edging, security planters and street lights. Client: Skanska Key features:
Hard landscaping comprising of over of over 1,440m2 Pallas paving, 567 linear metres of granite of granite ses, 500m of stainless of stainless steel edging, security planters and street lights.
Innovave use of alterna of alterna ve materials and techniques to achieve client deadlines.
So landscaping included 70 Pleached Tilia Europea trees.
Over 4,500 plants, 8,000 bulbs were installed contribung to BREAAM excellent status.
Case CaseStudy Study Brent Civic Centre Being a paral contracted design project, Willerby Landscapes partnered with a major contractor and a design team, then led the process of taking the design, geng it built and working within a sequence on site that brought innovave use of alternave materials and techniques to achieve the meline. Co‐ordinang the services on a ‘live’ site was just one of the many challenges to overcome. Because of restricons in deploying equipment and
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The project being a half podium concept; a wedding garden covering the entrance to the car park, was built as it was being designed. Willerby Landscapes took the outline design, formulated and presented mock ups of various concepts and design changes for client approval and even engineered the concrete fill by using a diff erent but compliance spec to pump the concrete, thus making the job quicker.
Case CaseStudy Study Brent Civic Centre The so landscaping included 70 Pleached Tilia Europea trees which, because of the seasonality of the specie, had to be planted before the hard landscaping. Addionally over 4,500 plants, 8,000 bulbs and the installaon of a water feature and irrigaon system along with internal trees and Ivy panels, also had to be completed within the 12 weeks of the project.
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