Aboud & Associates provides a complete suite of services to clients requiring landscape master planning and landscape improvements to new or pre-existing constructed landscapes in the following areas of specialization:

• Master Planning

• Revitalization Plans

• Residential Subdivisions

• Commercial/Industrial

• Institutional 

• Streetscapes

• Parks and Open Spaces

• Trail Systems

• Naturalization Plans

Aboud & Associates prides itself in being a leader in landscape design and planning that often includes a fusion of traditional and naturalized designs highlighting native plants. This successful approach is enhanced by our ability to interpret the capabilities of the site and to facilitate and understand the interests of the client, which reveals a design solution that is economically feasible, socially meaningful and ecologically responsible. 

We are capable of providing complete design solutions through graphic presentation and conceptual design, precise CAD-generated construction documents, cost-estimates, tender provision, detailed specification packages, construction review, and follow-up monitoring.

Water Lily (Nymphaea sp.)

Auburn Towers Entry Garden .  Cambridge

SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Doon Mills Plaza Landscape Plan

Corporate Client, Kitchener, 2007  (in association with Roth and Associates)

Located in the heart of the Doon Mills Master Planned Community, Aboud & Associates was retained to prepare detailed landscape plans for this community plaza. The landscape design seeks to integrate the plaza within the existing surrounding community by using a similar palette of plants, while highlighting plaza as a distinct community destination.     

Feather Reed Grass 

(Calamagrostis arundinacea 'Karl Foerster')

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Wellington Terrace Storm Water Management Facility

County of Wellington, Elora, 2006-2007

Aboud & Associates was retained to prepare a mitigation plan for a storm water management facility with Triton Engineering. The plan blends with the traditional landscape design of the Long Term Care Facility grounds and the natural, nearby soft maple swamp by using native trees, shrubs, meadow wildflowers, grasses, and emergent wetland plants. Additional phases of the project included the delineation and enhancement plan of an on-site wetland (See Ecological Restoration Design) and salvage of existing vegetation along the Elora Cataract Trail-way.    

Red-osier Dogwood (Cornus stolonifera) .  Elora

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Corporate Client, Cambridge, 2002-2008 (on-going) (in association with Roth and Associates)

Aboud & Associates was retained to provide detailed landscape designs for the City Centre Village residential subdivision in Cambridge. Landscape Plans were created for parkettes, entry features, storm water management ponds, streetscapes, and an adult lifestyle apartment complex. See Environmental Impact Studies for additional arboricultural and ecological services provided.

Auburn Towers Landscape Plan . Cambridge

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Mount Pleasant Go Station Landscape Plan

Go Transit, Brampton, 2004 (in association with Roth and Associates)

After completing a class environmental assessment, Aboud & Associates was retained to produce the detailed landscape planting Plan for the new Mount Pleasant Go Transit Station in Brampton.

Go Transit Bus Loop Concept . Brampton

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E. T. Seton Park Naturalization Plan

City of Toronto, Toronto, 2002

Site analysis and preparation of a naturalization plan of a disturbed area of the park including a wet meadow and a slope valley system along the Don River. Issues addressed by the naturalization plan design included areas impacted from invasive plant species (dog strangling vine, Siberian elm), steep slopes, and impacts from public uses (creation of informal trails, mountain biking). The mitigation design incorporates our knowledge of preferred habitats of native species and the local native flora..

 E.T. Seton Park .  Toronto

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Several Corporate Clients, Cambridge, 2001-2007

After completing an extensive Terrestrial Resources Study which included several heritage hedgerows with trees over 100 years old, Aboud & Associates was retained to provide detailed landscape designs for several elements of the subdivision. Landscape Plans were created for trails, naturalized heritage park blocks, entry features, storm water management ponds and street trees.  

Greengate Village .  Cambridge

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Canada Centre for Inland Waters Landscape Revitalization Master Plan

Environment Canada, Burlington, 2002-2004

Aboud & Asscociates was retained to provide a Landscape Revitalization Master Plan of this federal government facility. Surveys were utilized to identify the opinions, attitudes and values of the client and personnel. Working sessions with the steering committee identified the intent, goals, concepts and ideas of the landscape master plan. 

The purpose of the master plan study was to develop more dynamic and diverse landscape on the facility grounds including a prominent and higher profile entrance, more environmentally-friendly landscape, decreased maintenance, increased species diversity and naturalization, and improved site amenities for  users including staff, visitors and dignitaries. 

The master plan identified low, moderate and high profile/visibility areas with associated levels of maintenance and graphical concepts to illustrate intent of the design element. See Urban Forestry  for additional services provided.

CCIW Entry Plaza Concept .  Burlington

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Stormwater Management Pond Planting Plans

Triton Engineering Services Ltd., Fergus, 1999-2002

Combining form, function, aesthetics and ecology, Aboud & Associates has partnered with Triton Engineering  to create Stormwater Management Pond Planting Plans for several projects: 

• Victoria Terrace Subdivision – Fergus 

• Conestoga Meat Facility – Breslau 

• Hog Processing Plant - Mitchell

All projects involved preparing detailed planting plans of indigenous trees and shrubs, and wet and dry meadow seed mixes.

 Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) . Fergus

Naturalization Master Plan of Federal Crown Lands, Downsview

Environment Canada, Downsview 1997-1999

Naturalization Master Plan of Federal Crown Lands, Downsview, Ontario. A review of existing turf grass and ornamental trees on the site was conducted to identify opportunities and constraints for site planning, design and implementation of an environmentally responsive landscape. Ecosystem types of woodland, tallgrass prairie, seasonal wetland, savannah, shrub thicket and open-grown trees were recommended. 

Aboud & Associates completed the Phase I implementation that included detailed conceptual design of hard features, pruning and removal of trees, site preparation (plowing, tilling, spraying, mulching), coordination of volunteers for the planting and maintenance of 700 trees/ shrubs, and 10,000 prairie plugs, and detailed presentations to Environment Canada staff of the site’s evolution and naturalization.

Prairie - Environment Canada .  Downsview

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Playground Learning Environment Project

Toronto District School Board, Toronto,  2001-2006 

Our firm is experienced in the theory and practice of schoolyard master planning and understands the issues and constraints facing schools. Since 1993, Steven Aboud has delivered many teacher-training workshops across southwestern Ontario. The hands-on workshops followed the concepts and techniques presented in the resource manual, ‘A Life Zone Approach to School Yard Naturalization: The Carolinian Life Zone’, of which Steven Aboud was a coauthor. Many of the principles from the workshops and manual were applied to the following schools:

Develop Master Plans of Cassandra Public School, and Elmbank, North Kipling and Islington Junior Middle Schools in association with Melillo Architects Inc.

Playground designs, with construction drawings, were created for day-care centres at the following schools: Cassandra, Victoria Village, Vincent Massey, Flemington Road and George R. Gauld Junior Public Schools, City Adult Learning Centre, and Parkdale Collegiate Institute.

Develop Master Plans and construction drawings of Warden Avenue Public School, Humber Valley Village Junior Middle School (with Roth and Associates), and George R. Gauld Junior Public School.

Orb Weaver Spider on Stinging Nettle (Urtica sp). Toronto

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Our Lady of Victory School

Our Lady of Victory School, Milton, 2000-2002

First-hand experiences in nature afford children and adults with an opportunity to learn about the local flora and fauna, and to understand the interrelationships with their surroundings, as well as, the importance of environmental stewardship. 

Through a school initiative Aboud & Asscoiates prepared a conceptual naturalization plan, a wetland layout/grading plan, and detailed planting plan for a schoolyard naturalization project. Aboud & Associates also supervised and coordinated the construction of the project’s landscapes.

Woodland Classroom .  Milton

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A. M. Cunningham Public School

A. M. Cunningham Public School, Hamilton 1999-2002

Schoolyards can be effective facilities that promote the learning and development opportunities of children. At Aboud & Associates, our approach is to work with the school’s representative(s) or design committee (teachers, principal, custodians, parents, students) to generate ideas, identify opportunities and constraints, and apply a set of design principles to develop a master plan of the schoolyard. These principles often include sheltered and natural spaces for diverse types of play, meeting, learning and teaching. These principles were applied when Aboud & Associates prepared a Landscape Master Plan and detailed designs at A.M. Cunningham Public School in downtown Hamilton. 

Landscape elements including: shade trees, shrubs thickets, tallgrass prairie meadow, an outdoor classroom, and a trail system to access the classroom and encourage other site users to “walk the trail”. The planting design facilitated outdoor natural history interpretation through group plantings and the outdoor classroom is a well-used resource for studies in several subject areas by teachers, as well as a meeting area for the local community.  

A.M. Cunningham Public School . Hamilton

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