Philadelphia City Hall North Apron Replacement Philadelphia, PA Upgrades to Watsessing Park Playground Bloomfield Township, NJ Cooper River Boathouse Pennsuaken Township, NJ Professional Planning RVE provides professional planning consulting services throughout our mid-Atlantic service area. Our Professional Planners serve on numerous Boards and governing bodies. Our staff have authored master plan and reexamination reports, redevelopment investigations and redevelopment plans throughout New Jersey and have completed comprehensive plans and vision plans in Pennsylvania and Delaware. We provide advanced 3D modeling capabilities and are experts regarding development review, site design, site analysis, conceptual planning and photo simulations. Our dedicated GIS staff assist in mapping needs including, but not limited to, existing conditions analysis, zoning analysis and zoning map updates, floodplain, and other environmental analysis. We draft numerous zoning and land development ordinances and perform major ordinance revisions throughout the region. Additionally, our planning staff have CFM certification allowing them to assist our municipal clients with floodplain management needs. Our planning team has extensive expertise in public outreach, conducting public open houses and design charrettes, survey design, visual preference surveys, and other public outreach events for specific projects. Planning consultants work closely with each client to develop innovative design concepts that are economical and meet project-specific goals. Our multi-disciplined professionals support our clients through a project’s lifecycle—from capital budget development, through design, construction, and project final close-out. We routinely conduct public meetings, prepare grant applications, coordinate with outside agencies and resolve project disputes. Our professional planners maintain specialization in areas ranging from zoning and land use planning to urban design and transportation planning to ensure successful design. RVE planning staff are also statewide experts when it comes to New Jersey affordable housing matters. Our team of planners have worked on numerous Housing Elements and Fair Share Plans, performed vacant land adjustments, and performed administrative tasks related to midpoint review documentation submission. Our sustainable design consulting services collaboratively identify and integrate viable sustainable design strategies into projects to optimize overall energy and environmental performance. RVE offers extensive experience and abilities to work with stakeholders and project team members. We customize our scope of work to fit project needs and offers cost-saving efficiencies. RVE can analyze amenities, stormwater management techniques, heat island reduction methods, reduction in light pollution, and renewable energy sources, from design standards to site design through construction. Landscape Architecture When RVE serves as landscape architect to a client or community, we combine elements of art and science—design, horticulture, environmental psychology, and spatial dynamics—to create practical projects that meet the needs of the client. Our landscape architecture design team collaborates with each client to develop a successful project that respects the natural and man-made environments while meeting the needs of the community and end users. Our team maintains a variety of specializations, ranging from planting design and land use planning to urban design and transportation planning, to ensure the successful design of a wide variety of projects for communities and public agencies. Our projects range from the rehabilitation of small playgrounds and pocket parks to the development of major multi-purpose sports complexes. RVE’s staff includes park and open-space specialists with experience taking these areas from concept through completion and managing them long term. We identify the opportunities, challenges, funding mechanisms and planning steps. In addition, we design, manage and prepare maintenance standards specific to sites in urban, suburban and rural settings. Our approach emphasizes community engagement and guidance from policymakers to develop feasible plans adapted to specific community goals. We provide a public involvement and decision-making strategy tailored to each project and setting. RVE’s designers offer comprehensive services from site feasibility studies, conceptual and final design plans, through contract documents, estimates and inspection. We also assist with regulatory compliance, grant application requests, permitting and bidding as needed. Team experience includes site design, memorial design, plaza space design, streetscapes, sport complexes, natural turf fields, synthetic turf fields, associated lighting, water splash parks, nature trails, dog parks, nature parks, passive and active recreation areas, and playgrounds. Our landscape architects are professionals who are licensed or registered based on state regulations. We maintain staff with additional qualifications including Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP) certification, which is the national standard for parks and recreation professionals who are at the forefront of the profession. CPRPs meet stringent education and experience qualifications and have specialized expertise and understanding of key concepts within parks and recreation. RVE provides truly inclusive playgrounds that allow users of all ages and abilities to play side by side. This universal design process dissolves the line between “us” and “them” to create an empowering play experience to meet everyone’s developmental needs. This sensory-rich environment includes play equipment while also creating stimuli through carefully crafted experiences of touch, sound and shelter. We work with playground equipment manufacturers who employ scientific play research to ensure state-of-the-art engineering, safety—and most importantly—fun! Projects can be sustainable with or without LEED certification. Our team can identify and integrate viable sustainable design strategies to optimize overall energy and environmental performance. From a landscape architecture perspective, we can investigate reducing impervious coverage and limiting areas of disturbance. We can implement a variety of green infrastructure techniques to effectively reduce non-point-source pollution and can specify low-maintenance, native plant material that meets the vision of our client and stakeholders. 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