Green Streets Project

You may remember I made a post a few months back talking about a project I was working on called the Green Streets Project. This was a project that was only suppose to be in the office for 2 week. We don't always go though projects this fast, but I worked with another girl in the office on this project and I was able make the site visit as well and work on the plans and doing the montages for the project. The reason the project went thought the office so fast was the city acquired a large among of trees to be planed in the governmental housing part of Sydney. We were hired to plan the placement of the trees properly, as well as to raise awareness to the community the benefit of planting these tree. A local college in Sydney did series of heat test in the community that showed due to the lack of trees it is warming the area up so much that it couldn't cool off fast enough in the evening. So hopefully by planting these trees it will shade the pavement enough to bring down the temperature over the whole community.... After doing our research on the site and figuring out that it wouldn't be possible due to the power, telephone, and water lines that run though the area. But we were told to just continued so hopefully if we could get the raise enough awareness that one day the community would be willing to raise money to complete the project.

So after all this the client continually pushed the project to the point where we found our selves walking every street in all these subdivisions marking the exact location of each tree along with a surveyor (this was very unusual job for us).

(Sexy illustration, showing site potential)

The project moved very fast and they wasted no time to break ground and plant some trees.

Unfortunately, the community wasn't as excited about the project as everyone else. After just one of the subdivision were planted and 2.4 million dollars of Australian tax payers money spent. Some one went though the entire neighbor hood and chopper on every single tree.

Quote from Michael Wright (Principal) :: "Letting the community see the damage may encourage the tree huggers to beat up the tree buggers ??!!"