We are more than pleased to announce that our very own Rachel Minnery has received the 2012 Young Architect Award from AIA Seattle!

My husband and I moved into our Loyal Heights home about 4 years ago and much to our dismay quickly learned the joys of homeownership.  When we bought our home we fell in love with the way the home sat back from the street and created a large front yard.

Environmental WORKS and our team at Barker Landscape Architects and Springline Design have created a Green Stormwater Infrastructure case study which built upon a current housing design project in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood at 12th and Jefferson

Together with habitat restoration, source reduction of toxins, and development density and location, stormwater control is one of four primary strategies with the power to decrease pollution in the Sound.  As citizens and design professionals we look to do what is in our power to affect positive change.

This past Friday was a milestone for Washington’s Puget Sound water quality.  The Department of Ecology is proposing new development rules to mitigate and control polluted runoff, so that stormwater from roads and roofs can be treated naturally rather than burdening, often inadequate,stormwater infrastructure.