Wellington

Steve Dunn

Principal & Landscape Architect

Education

Certificate in Landscape Design, Lincoln College, New Zealand, 1974
Diploma in Horticulture (Distinction), Lincoln College, New Zealand, 1973

Professional Affiliations

Fellow, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
Registered Landscape Architect, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
NZ Green Star Accredited Professional

Profile

With over 30 years’ experience as a landscape architect working for clients and as part of project teams, Steve contributes to projects of all scales – from residential sites to large scale commercial and public works. His particular talent is in landscape design, contract documentation and contract supervision. With this skill and experience he is regularly involved in project management of landscape works.

Steve has become a NZ Green Star accredited professional and can advise his clients on how to incorporate sustainable design principles into their projects to give benefits such as improved use of resources and reduced energy inputs. This approach has been successfully applied to recent roading, housing and subdivision projects.

Steve draws on his horticultural qualifications, when advising clients, to ensure that projects are designed to suit each environment and will be successful in the long term.

Expertise

Landscape design

Environmental designs that incorporate sustainable design principles. The range of work covers all design stages including concepts, detailed construction and planting, schedules of quantity, specifications, contract documentation and costing.

Site planning

Advising on site selection and providing functional site layouts that are creatively responsive to the special features of the site and the specific requirements of the client.

Open space planning and development

Concept planning and design of parks and open spaces in both rural and urban areas for recreational and other uses.

Campus design

Development plans through to detailed designs for a range of large institutional campus sites including social housing, correctional facilities, hospitals and tertiary education institutions.

Vegetation appraisal

Evaluating existing vegetation, tree transplanting and new plant designs.

Project management

Co-ordinating design team and other consultants to produce quality development plans and construction.