Associates Archives - Page 2 of 3

Laurent is a creative, ambitious and dynamic Associate Landscape Architect with 8 years’ experience in a vast range of projects mainly throughout the MENA region. With a strong eye for detail, he enjoys working within teams to collaborate with world-renowned architects to ensure full integration between the buildings and landscape scope. With a positive outlook, Laurent is a passionate proponent of landscape design that takes account of environmental issues. Keeping abreast of latest global research, developments and best practice he helps to steer sustainability initiatives within the firm.

Jed Cracknell

As an Associate Architect Designer at Cracknell Jed has worked on the design, production & BIM development of projects throughout Europe and the Middle East. His experience in both the disciplines of Architecture and Landscape promotes a holistic design approach where a strong collaboration between the disciplines is encouraged to ensure the best is achieved out of a project. Jed plays a key role in establishing quality and adherence to industry standards whilst managing design projects in BIM.

Justine Dowsing

Justine has 22 years’ experience in Landscape Architecture across the UK, Europe, MENA and India as a practicing landscape architect, bid coordinator, marketing specialist and graphic designer. She leads Cracknell’s marketing activities as well as contributing to business development, graphic communication and proposal writing. Maintaining and strengthening the practice’s links with the Landscape Institute she looks to build on Cracknell’s UK landscape design roots.

Having a keen interest in cultural heritage, native ecology and the value of beauty in the public realm, Justine has a wealth of experience in designing for sensitive landscapes, contributing to UNESCO Nomination Dossiers and creating visual communication material for global World Heritage Sites. She actively engages in proliferating Cracknell’s knowledge gained from maintaining liveble landscapes in inhospitable climes to Europe, as the profession acts on its responsibility to reduce and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Asha Mallya

Asha has over 21 years’ experience in HR and Finance. Commencing her professional journey as a qualified accountant, she soon discovered her true passion lies in fostering collaboration among individuals and cultivating a positive working environment. Leveraging her financial expertise and HR management, with exceptional business acumen, she has built the HR function to effectively support Cracknell’s growth.

Notably, Asha assumes the role of an efficacious team leader, bearing the responsibility of overseeing and managing HR functions with resounding success. Cultivating relationships and trust among her colleagues is important to Asha. Her unwavering belief revolves around creating a supportive working culture that thrives on diversity, inclusivity, collaboration, mutual respect, and recognising the significance of a harmonious work-life balance.

Florante Casal

Florante ‘Jay’ Casal, Jr. is an accomplished registered Architect with over 17 years’ experience in landscape design and project management in Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.

He is a member of the United Architects of the Philippines and is committed to building professional and high-quality design solutions that satisfy the needs of the clients. His passion is for creating well-planned spaces that inspire, uplift and connect people with nature.

Bindu Thomas

Bindu has over 16 years’ experience in landscape architecture and related disciplines. In her role as an Associate Commercial Engineer at Cracknell, she brings strong financial skills combined with good business knowledge and technical understanding of landscape architectural design, engineering, construction and QS disciplines to the bid management team.

Under the direction of the senior management, Bindu is an effective team leader, coach and guide to the multi- disciplinary commercial team, She takes responsibility for the successful management of contracts as per required standards and meets business-development-led targets for multiple projects of varying levels of complexity, size and value.

Daniel Corteza

Daniel Corteza is a registered Architect and has been practicing Landscape Architecture for more than 24 years. He has extensive experience in hotel & resort planning, retail & residential landscape design, streetscape, and urban landscape design.

He has been involved in the design of numerous completed landscape projects in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and China. He also has technical knowledge and experience in detail design and construction.

Daniel is passionate about delivering the project’s vision through creative and innovative solutions from inception until completion.

Ryan de Guia

Ryan has been a design professional in the Middle East region for over 15 years. With experience in site supervision, he is Senior BIM Manager at Cracknell, overseeing and delivering large to medium size BIM projects and providing assessment and training for CAD team members to transition to BIM. With an architectural background and an eye for detail, he has rounded knowledge of landscape architecture and is able to give insight into architectural detailing to help interface the two disciplines.

Patrick Evangelista

Patrick is an accomplished professional with a diverse background as an Architect,
Engineer, and AutoCAD Designer. He has 20 years’ experience on contingency planning projects, technical designs, and field assessment across Asia and the
Middle East. Knowledgeable of advanced architectural and engineering design
principles, he is an experienced project development team leader.

Marivic Gallardo

Marivic is a registered Landscape Architect in the Philippines and a LEED AP with more than 25 years’ experience in a diverse scale of landscape developments. Her professional project experience encompasses hotel and resort planning, mixed-use, residential estates, public realm and waterfront design in the Philippines, India, China, and the Middle East.

Marivic’s approach to landscape design focuses on site-specific processes and key project drivers, integrating culture, history, ecological processes, and economics within a project context to create bespoke landscape design that respects sense of place.

Older posts

Newer posts