Murdoch de Greeff Inc.
Suite 200 - 524 Culduthel Road V8Z 1G1 Victoria, BC, Canada

The Memorial Avenue Rain Garden in Qualicum Beach wins 2018 VIREB Award! Murdoch de Greeff Inc. Landscape Architects was proud to be part of the design team for the Memorial Ave. Rain Garden project. This project is an excellent example of municipally owned, innovative green infrastructure - Kudos to the Town of Qualicum Beach for their leadership!

Puget Sound and southern Vancouver Island have a few things in common-one of them is coho salmon populations in local urban watershed. This article describes current research on urban stormwater runoff, impacts to salmon, and solutions using green infrastructure.

As part of today’s Remembrance Day ceremony in downtown Victoria, wreaths were laid for the first time at the Afghanistan War Memorial recently placed behind the provincial courthouse.

Murdoch de Greeff, Illarion Gallant, and the BC Society of Landscape Architects have developed a one-day workshop on the Value of Urban Green Space. The workshop was developed in response to our collective experience of seeing unprecedented pressure on green space in urban areas. Trees and green spaces are criticized as requiring a lot of maintenance and space, and are often sacrificed. However, these are the elements that provide amenity and the qualities that people apprec...iate in the urban landscape (shade, softening of architecture, calming effects). Urban green space is critical this workshop will focus on a thoughtful and balanced approach to green space inclusion in our communities! Experts in the field will discuss new research findings on the correlation between human health indicators and access to green space, the benefits of green space to infrastructure, and the climate-resiliency that trees and green spaces help build into cities. This workshop is open to the public. We would love to see you there! Early bird pricing deadline is November 10, 2017. http://www.bcsla.org//inf/value-urban-green-space-workshop

#fbf to last weekend's unveiling of the Afghan Memorial at the Victoria Courthouse Park. We are humbled to be involved in this project that provides a physical space to honour the brave men and women who served in Afghanistan. #CanadaRemembers

We are very excited about co-hosting this upcoming workshop! Have you registered yet?

We just had to take a team break today to play with some eclipse reflections. Binoculars for the win! #eclipse2017

Good job on the floating bee condos HA!

Spent the morning at Harbour Air. Got to check out the new beehives and solar panels. The sedums are just starting to bloom but already there is a constant cloud of bees, busy making honey.

What a special event this morning - celebrating #nationalaboriginalday and the blessing of these great cedar benches by Burkhart Sign Art Studio. Artwork by Jamin Zuroski.