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Will’s professional experience covers a lot of ground: including urban design, commercial, instructional, streetscape, land development and residential projects. He brings value and insight to every project at a senior level with his diverse professional background in project management, construction, estimating and documentation, detailed design, and conceptual design. Will has a keen interest in urban development, with a focus on creating a sense of ‘place’ within every project.

Prior to joining EDA, Will was involved in contracting work for private development. He was responsible for managing the full scope of operations: including staging, procurement, staff management, authoring and executing contracts, design and design implementation. Will excels when challenged with complex projects that require high degrees of coordination, collaboration and innovative design solutions.

EDA clients benefit from Jason’s interdisciplinary skillset and extensive experience – spanning planning, architecture, and landscape architecture. His primary interest, and main focus, is urban design. Jason thrives on the challenge of arriving at successfully integrated outcomes in this collaborative discipline, which allows him to tap into his many abilities. As a former graphic/web designer, Jason also brings strong visual communication abilities and technical software skills to his role.

Jason’s public sector experience gives him a solid background in policy research, design review, and the application of policies and guidelines on a wide range of public and private design projects. This is balanced by private sector design and project management experience in architecture and landscape architecture. His work with EDA has included trail masterplans, large-scale rezoning for transit-oriented developments, land subdivisions, and extends down to the small-scale design of houses and mixed use residential / commercial buildings. Jason’s diverse background allows him to align the finer details with big picture concepts of design projects.

Gerald has more than 20 years of experience in landscape architecture and design-build construction. Over his career, he has cultivated extensive experience in a diverse range of institutional, commercial, residential, and parks projects within the Edmonton and Calgary regions. In addition to being well-versed and experienced in all aspects of the design process, Gerald’s primary expertise is in the realm of transforming projects from the initial vision to a final, constructed product during construction document and construction administration phases.

With EDA, he has been involved on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects, and actively engages in solutions-oriented collaborations to attain excellence in constructed products. Gerald consistently demonstrates a fidelity to the greater vision and objectives of projects. With a keen eye for detail, a broad knowledge base of materials and applications, a proponent of best practices, avid openness for exploring and implementing innovations, and aptitude for high grade QA/QC, Gerald brings extensive experience, insight and knowledgeable decision-making to the multiple teams he engages with.

As a Landscape Architectural Technologist, Alleissa has worked on projects with a wide range of scope, from small-scale commercial spaces to large, open space design (such as streetscapes and district parks). She also has experience with residential, institutions and neighbourhood renewals that focus on integrating Low-Impact Development (LID). Her proficiency in drafting, digital graphics, data processing and 3D rendering programs allow her to demonstrate complex design ideas to clients through high-quality drawings, visuals and presentations.

Alleissa has experience in construction management, including contract administration, project tendering, site inspections and invoicing. Her love for plants helped shape her knowledge in identifying potential issues on-site and exploring effective alternative measures. By integrating her education and passion in landscape architecture, Alleissa has demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the physical and cultural processes that shape today’s environment. Her work in developing landscape projects throughout her education and career exhibit sharp design solutions that are driven by both analytical procedure and artistic narrative in varying scales.

Thu is a Junior Landscape Designer who has a keen interest in urban design and landscape architecture. Her focus spans conceptual design and implementation of parks and open space, streetscape design, landscape restoration, historical landscape, and trail system planning and design.

Thu brings a broad software skillset and multi-scalar design sensibility to projects in planning, landscape, and urban design. Thu has been involved in urban design and parks master plan projects, to explore the creative solutions to reconnect the built form of our cities to larger natural forces. Thu is committed to the practice of landscape and urban design as a community-building tool, to celebrate the complexities and beauties of our cultural landscapes.

Ted is a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and Environmental Planner with over 40 years of professional experience. As the original Managing Principal for EDA, Ted has stepped away from day-to-day operations, but continues to support our team in an advisory capacity.

Over a celebrated career, Ted has provided planning and design leadership on a wide range of public realm, environmental, urban design, and community planning projects. He has been recognized, both locally and nationally, with numerous planning and design awards, and by his peers as a Fellow of the CSLA. Ted has been an exceptional mentor to the entire EDA team, and continues to be an influential figure within Canada’s landscape architecture community.