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...focused on Harvard’s progress in designing Library Park, which is slated to open in 2011 and will be located behind the Honan-Allston Library. Project manager Dennis Swinford presented the current concept designs and said that the Boston Redevelopment Authority had hired landscaping firm Michael Van Valkenburg Associates to develop construction documents, which should be available by the year’s end. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW] He said that while a contractor for construction has not yet been hired, construction should begin next spring...
...April 7 news article "Allston Locals Praise Harvard" misspelled the name of the landscaping firm hired to develop construction documents for Library Park. The firm's name is Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, not Michael Van Valkenburg Associates...
...environmental impact,” said Peter J. del Tredici, a lecturer in landscape architecture and a senior research scientist at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. “A lot agricultural nitrogen has run off into aquatic ecosystems and has destroyed the native ecology.” Valkenburg touts the success of this project as yet another example of Harvard’s increasing commitment to being environmentally-sensitive. “The nation and the world look to places like Harvard to set standards for how major environmental shifts like this happen,” Valkenburg said...
Valerie Van Valkenburg, an R.N. from Great Falls, Montana, also emphasizes the value of the individual's skills. "Nursing is an art. When I go to a patient's bedside to answer a call light or get vital signs," she notes, "I am collecting all sorts of information to help me assess that person. My critical evaluation and intervention could prevent a costly complication or even death...
...Valkenburg, who specializes in ice architecture, worked with several students to design and build the seven-foot-high walls of ice that adorned the Cabot Quad last month. He constructed the walls by spraying water on mesh screens, letting the wind and temperature form the exact design...