Our News

We recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of Brindley being a Limited Company.

This provoked a fair bit of reminiscing amongst the team regarding memorable projects over the years. So, we tasked Suzanne with compiling a list of the most memorable or significant projects over the past 20 years. Suzanne first started working at Brindley back in 2007 as a year-out student, before any of the rest of the team, so it seemed fitting that we let her curate this list!

Suzanne has spent much of her career focusing on GIS, visualisations, and LVIA, so apologies to the rest of the team if there is some bias in the choices…

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We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new Ecological Project Manager, Kay Devlin.

Kay brings over twenty years’ of ecological experience and a wide range of survey and monitoring, research, data collation and analysis, reporting, project costing and project management experience to the Brindley team.

We are all looking forward to working with her.

A warm welcome to our new Landscape Architect, Aubrey Bader.

Aubrey has completed her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture in 2022 at the University of Tennessee and will be working on both Landscape Design and Landscape Assessments. The rest of the team are really looking forward to working with Aubrey

A warm welcome to Calvin Batty, who recently joined us as a summer intern.

Calvin has completed his second year of the Landscape Architecture MA course at Edinburgh College of Art, and will be working with us until mid-September, when he returns to university.

Calvin supports both the GIS and Visualisations team and the Landscape Design team, assisting with baseline mapping, photoshop drawings and AutoCAD drawings.

We are very happy to announce that Suzanne recently passed her Experienced Route to Chartership assessment and is now a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).

Suzanne was assessed against the new Competency Framework, which is fantastic as it really takes account of the wide variety of Landscape Architecture specialisms.

Suzanne’s chosen Additional Landscape Competencies were:

• Visualisation and Photography
• Digital Technologies
• Landscape Assessment
• Design – Landscape
• Education and Knowledge Exchange

It’s always nice to start the new year with good news regarding a project. Delighted to hear that the proposed extension to Hawkswood Country Estate was approved in December.

The extension includes new lodges, wedding chapel, indoor swimming pool and play barn, as well as new areas of woodland planting.

It was a pleasure (as always!) working with Montgomery Forgan Associates, providing the Design and Access Statement, Landscape and Visual Appraisal, visualisations, Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and landscape design.

Happy New Year to everyone!

We are starting the year with a new look, with branded fleeces for the team. We were all quite jealous of Gondolin Land and Water’s branded clothing so decided to copy them and get our own. They are coming in very useful today as we get the office warmed up again after the Christmas break!

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Brindley.

Hope all of our clients, subconsultants and colleagues have a well-earned break. We looking forward to working with you all in 2024!

Ross and Suzanne are looking forward to another semester teaching part-time on the Landscape Architecture MA course at Edinburgh College of Art.

Ross is participating in tutorials with both second and third year students, providing valuable input as both an ecologist and landscape architect.

Suzanne is teaching digital skills to second year students, including QGIS, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

Looking forward to seeing the students’ final projects in a couple of months time!