Calabasas, CA – ValleyCrest Landscape Development, a division of ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, has a long history of building some of the nation’s most renowned LEED®-certified and environmentally-friendly landscapes including a number in the Northeast. Among those are a green roof project at Eaton Vance Corporation’s headquarters and a rooftop healing garden at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The company completed $1 billion of landscape work in 2008, reflecting a strong position in one of the most challenging economic times.
Recent Landscape Development projects in the Boston area include:
§ Boston-based investment firm, Eaton Vance Corporation, moved its headquarters to a 310,000sf office building in the Financial District of Boston. Shawmut Design and Construction managed a complete retrofit, designed by Copley Wolff Design Group, which allowed the building to offer outdoor entertainment space and a landscaped roof deck. Despite the challenge of proximity to businesses, congested weekday traffic and unruly winter weather, ValleyCrest Landscape Development managed to work within a tight construction schedule while installing the rooftop garden complete with Skyline Honey Locust trees, all of which were lifted to the 13th floor roof by crane.
§ ValleyCrest worked closely with Turner Construction Company, to install the courtyard space at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Construction work involved site preparation, paving, site furnishings, irrigation and planting. The installation in this area of the university is pending LEED®-Platinum certification, a title that the ValleyCrest team has played a prominent role in achieving. A central pond was constructed to capture and clean rainwater runoff from the ground and rooftop levels and prepare it for reuse in the site’s landscape irrigation system. ValleyCrest finished the pond by planting aesthetically-pleasing aquatic plants that provide a necessary step in the water filtration process.
§ ValleyCrest Landscape Development constructed a rooftop garden at Massachusetts General Hospital, which includes an enclosed pavilion and atrium for year-round use and an elaborate drainage system that collects water runoff from the healing garden. The rooftop garden contributes to a cure and proves four times more efficient as a method of insulation as compared to a traditional roof structure and has the added advantage of attracting a large amount of wildlife including birds and butterflies.
