Industry Leader to Speak at Local and International Conferences

NEW YORK, NY (04/29/2008)(readMedia)-- William Kuhl, FASLA, a Managing Principal for Saratoga Associates will be speaking at two upcoming conferences regarding sustainability. Kuhl has nearly 40 years of experience as a landscape architect and has received 70 national, state and city design awards.

Mr. Kuhl was the principal of his own landscape architecture firm for more than three decades and has been the Managing Principal of the New York City office of Saratoga Associates for the past two years.

Mr. Kuhl will first lend his expertise to the 2nd Annual Sustainability Conference hosted by Sustainable Long Island on May 6 at the Huntington Hilton. Kuhl will take part in a panel discussion titled “Creating Communities Where Walking is Safe and Practical”. “More and more we are seeing a push to revive that old main street feel,” said Kuhl. “As a landscape architect it’s gratifying to see that what was once old, is now new again. A major aspect of the main street environment is pedestrian traffic, we must always strive to increase accessibility while at the same time, insuring public safety.” Most recently Saratoga Associates was hired by the Oyster Bay Main Street Association to conduct the community visioning for the future Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. Saratoga Associates provided the Association with the design of the plaza and the streetscape.

Two weeks later Bill will once again offer his expertise on the future of his profession, this time on an international stage. The Leadership and Landscape Change Symposium will be held in Charleston, South Carolina from May 18th-21st. Kuhl will take place in a panel discussion on his views on the future and vision of his profession as well as issues of leadership on the landscape architecture field. The International Conference is the seventh in a series of conferences that has criss-crossed the country each year.

Saratoga Associates is a landscape architect, engineering, planning, and architect firm with offices in Saratoga Springs and New York City. It was founded in 1968 with the goal of integrating creative talent and sustainable design philosophies of architects, engineers and planners to provide the best possible results for their clients. This multi-disciplinary approach has been the backbone of the firm that has grown to become leaders in their profession.

Saratoga Associates has touched communities throughout New York State and across the country with their sustainable and regenerative design work on projects like the Battery Bosque, in Manhattan which received a National Waterfront Award and NY ASLA Chapter Honor Award, and the Middle Country Road Corridor on Long Island where the firm is working to reposition a 7 mile corridor of strip malls and asphalt into more of a town center feel for the two abutting communities of Selden and Centereach.

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