GAINESVILLE - The Jaeger Company, a landscape architecture and planning firm with offices in Gainesville and Athens, has received a National Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their work on a guidebook entitled, "Roadside Resource Preservation: A Guide to Assessing the Effects of Roadside Safety Implementation Projects on the Blue Ridge Parkway."
Only 49 entries were selected out of over 600 total - the largest number in ASLA History.
The Jaeger Company's National Honor Award was one of 13 selected under the Analysis and Planning category. This was the only ASLA award given to a Georgia firm.
The purpose of the guidebook was to provide a process for evaluating proposed changes to park roads and parkways and the potential impact of those changes. The primary goal is to preserve the "significance and integrity" of America's historic roadways while allowing for "sensitive implementation" of contemporary safety standards.
Landscape Architects from the National Park Service (NPS) and The Jaeger Company worked together to create this process, now adopted by federal agencies.
Adherence to this process insures that distinctive design achievements inherent to Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as other historic roadways, will be preserved.
Members of the design team from The Jaeger Company, included Dale McElveen Jaeger, FASLA, Principal Landscape Architect; Emmeline Embry Morris, ASLA, Project Manager; and William Shealy, ASLA, Assistant Project Manager. Other participants included Ian Firth, FASLA, Landscape Architect and Parkway Historian; and Gary Johnson, Landscape Architect and Chief of Resource Planning & Professional Services with the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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October 7th, 2024
1:28PM
