Meet our landscaping expert
10 Feb 2016
Video
Transcript
Meet our landscaping expert
[Title: Level Crossing Removal Project]
[Vision: Level Crossing Removal Project: Caulfield to Dandenong Trees and Vegetation]
Kate - Landscape Architect
Hi. I'm Kate. I'm a Landscape Architect working on the project team.
[Vision: Artist's impression of open spaces]
My role involves the design of parkland public open space, and the forecourts at the new railway stations.
[Kate speaking]
Landscape architecture plays a really important role in the everyday lives of people.
[Vision: Tree - people at station.
It influences your journey as you get to work every day, where you go on the weekend, your general wellbeing and health.
[Kate speaking]
There are many things that we need to consider when we retain or plan the retention of trees within the corridor.
[Vision: Artist's impression of open space - Kate speaking]
One of the good things about having an elevated rail structure means that we can actually locate them closer to the railway tracks than if we were building a railway cutting in the ground.
[Kate speaking]
We're not just retaining trees but we're improving the vegetation along the length of the corridor.
[Vision: Noble Park Station artist's impression]
People can expect to see a lot more public open space.
[Kate speaking - Artist's impression of Noble Park Station]
And that public open space will have a lot more vegetation in it. So we'll put in a variety of plant stock at different heights. The smaller tree stock we put in the more quickly it will grow.
[Vision: Map of open space in corridor]
But we will be putting advanced stock in as well. Advanced tree stock is tree stock that we buy from a nursery that's been growing in the ground for a few years.
[Kate speaking]
And they treat it very carefully and move it to site, so that from day one we've got a tree that's potentially three to four metres high.
[Vision: Artist's impression of Clayton Station - construction machinery]
Typically the planting will be installed towards the end of the construction program. This means that during the construction trucks etcetera don't damage the trees and the plants.
[Kate speaking]
Ur team's really excited about the opportunity to work on the project.
[Vision: Artist's impression of station]
[Level Crossing Removal Project - Victoria State Government]
[Speaker: Authorised by the Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne]
Contact Us
1800 105 105
Get in touch with us for any queries you have about our projects
24 hours, 7 days