Landscape Architecture
Planting, buffering, irrigation, and site amenity design, sealed by a Registered Landscape Architect and produced to clear the landscape code review a jurisdiction applies.

Registered Landscape Architect, Florida LA6667058
Michael is the Registered Landscape Architect on site design work and the operations lead who decides how a project is staffed and scheduled.
Your request reaches Michael with the building, the scope, and the deadline attached.
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. Before joining O'Connell & Associates, he was Director of Landscape Architecture at Morris-Depew Associates.
The disciplines listed on this profile mean specific things on a project. Here is what a client receives when each one is part of an engagement.
Planting, buffering, irrigation, and site amenity design, sealed by a Registered Landscape Architect and produced to clear the landscape code review a jurisdiction applies.
Firm operations: scheduling field work, staffing engagements across offices, and keeping deliverables moving on the calendar a client was given.
Nobody here works alone on a building. The discipline lead who owns that type of work scopes the engagement, it is staffed from whichever office holds the disciplines it needs, and one project manager stays with it through the final deliverable.
Deliverables that require a seal are signed and sealed by the Florida-licensed professional responsible for that work. Registrations listed on this page are recorded individually, and a number renders only where the firm has confirmed it.
Staff work across all of the firm's Florida locations. The office listed on a profile is where that person is based. Their work is not confined to it. A project in one county is regularly staffed by people sitting in two or three of the offices, coordinated by the discipline lead who owns the scope.
Response time matters more to most clients than any credential on this page. A scoping call costs nothing, active water intrusion moves to the front of the schedule, and a written scope and fee follows shortly after the call.
Florida licenses are public record. Any registration number shown on this page can be looked up through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and we would rather a client check than take our word for it.
Field work on occupied buildings is scheduled around access rather than around our calendar. That means resident notice, unit-access sequencing, and phasing that keeps a building usable while work is under way.
To reach this person about a building, send the address, the scope, and the deadline through the contact page, or review what each O'Connell & Associates service line covers first if you are not yet sure which discipline the work falls under.
Published records from the same service lines Michael works in. Each record sets out the building, the scope, and the deliverables.
Send the building, the scope, and the timeline, and it goes in front of a licensed engineer.