Author: ayres

What Do Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists Do?

A five-year redevelopment effort turned the City of Glendale, Wisconsin’s former Bender Road Landfill site into a vibrant community park and collegiate-level baseball facility. On the highest level, environmental engineering has two goals. The first is to help correct the mistakes of the past that have led to the environmental issues of today. The second… Read More »

Ayres Wins ASLA Wisconsin Award for Planning Future of Dam and Park

The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has awarded Ayres an Honor Award in the category of unbuilt designs for its work on the Echo Lake Park Master Planning project in Burlington. After a historic flood damaged downtown Burlington, a dam failure analysis conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources determined… Read More »

Native Plants Improve Environment, Reduce Maintenance Costs

Native plants play such a critical role in our ecosystems. They have coevolved with the soils, rainfall patterns, and climatic conditions of a region. Native plants also have specialized relationships with the birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife of a region, providing nutrition and nesting. A common misconception is that all plants can provide the… Read More »