Led by a Florida Registered Landscape Architect working from the same drawing set as the civil engineering team, so grades, drainage, circulation, and buildable area get resolved once, in one office.
Mr. Ekblad has a degree in Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University and is a registered professional with the state of Florida (LA6667058) and the state of Tennessee (1352). His landscape design experience covers site planning and residential, commercial, industrial, medical, streetscape, and hospitality design.
Florida eliminated Landscape Architecture Certificates of Authorization on 2020-07-01. Since then, the qualifying business prints on the licensee's own DBPR record. Mr. Ekblad's record carries the DBA "O'Connell & Associates Consulting Engineers, LLC," which is the firm's authority to offer landscape architecture in Florida.
Finished-grade decisions on planting beds, walks, and amenity areas set the same elevations the civil team is using for stormwater conveyance. Both come from one drawing set.
Vehicular, pedestrian, and service circulation gets laid out with the civil roadway and access design.
County landscape buffer, setback, and open-space requirements are read against the site plan the civil engineer is drawing, so the buildable envelope stays honest.
Landscape and irrigation sheets are prepared, sealed by the landscape architect, and coordinated for county review by the civil team as part of the same submittal.
Projects where the firm confirms landscape architecture as part of the scope. Two are named here; the firm's landscape work extends beyond these.
Civil engineering and landscape architecture on a 62-acre mixed-use conceptual PUD approved by Walton County: approximately 604 residential units and 8 acres of commercial space, wetland delineation and ACOE permitting, and roadway and pedestrian connections planned with the school board.
Enhanced landscape design for the project entry sign, plus landscape plan modifications for a Walton County buffer deviation.
These are Michael Ekblad's personal credits from his time as Director of Landscape Architecture at Morris-Depew Associates, 2015 to early 2023. They are shown here as prior-firm experience, not as O'Connell & Associates projects.
Prior-firm credits are not O'Connell project photography.
Talk to a Florida Registered Landscape Architect who sits with the civil engineering team.
