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Placemaking <br />We celebrate a site’s history, its underlying natural processes, its civic elements, and its role in contributing to our <br />environment, cultural well-being, and climate resiliency. Allowing a site to inform the design process results in lower <br />environmental impacts and costs, and produces inviting, resilient public spaces the whole community can enjoy. Our <br />process prioritizes the continuing health of the park system, which relies on the City’s sound management policies, <br />ongoing park maintenance, and periodic park renovation. <br />Our team’s experience with not only trail and boardwalk design, as well as active and passive recreation <br />opportunities, such as sport courts, playfields, picnic areas, nature trails and even places to observe nature, will <br />facilitate designs that offer a wide array of programming elements to meet the needs of a diverse range of user <br />experiences, ages, and abilities, while allowing flexibility for future expansion as the community grows and program <br />needs change. <br />Quality Assurance/Quality Control <br />We include a Quality Review role by an experienced staff member independent of the project to get fresh eyes <br />and additional expertise at regular intervals and in advance of major milestones or deliverables. Our process <br />tracks markups and resolved issues, assigns tasks to team members, and prioritizes tasks based on milestone and <br />deliverable for added efficiency. <br />C. Risks <br />Overall, we see few risks associated with your project. Minor risks will likely be alleviated once we have more <br />information about the specific project site and boundaries so we can better tailor our scope, such as extents of <br />topographic mapping, utility locations, surveying, and geotechnical evaluation. One major risk is whether additional <br />partners will be necessary such as an arborist or critical area specialist. <br />D. Ability to Estimate & Forecast Construction Cost <br />Our team has provided cost planning services for many parks and recreation projects, totaling over 90 projects <br />in the past seven years throughout Washington and Oregon, with additional projects nationwide. Our expertise <br />includes sports fields, play areas, community facilities, display gardens, trails, water features, overlook/respite areas, <br />the assessment of earthwork, landscaping, wetland mitigation and stormwater management, open meadows, and <br />forested areas. Our services extend beyond direct construction costs, as we provide our clients with total project <br />cost development including soft costs, O&M and help define elements for fundraising opportunities. We know <br />the contractor and supply chain communities in Washington and understand how to manage costs through the <br />evolving construction markets including jurisdictional cost pressures. Our benchmarking is based on our very current <br />experience within the market, since we often negotiate guaranteed maximum pricing (GMP) at a very granular level. <br />Additionally, we achieve great results by partnering with the team to recommend both functional ways to deliver <br />projects and the timing in which to deliver them. <br />11 <br />Statement of Qualifications <br />2. Approach & Capability