AILA NATIONAL RESEARCH & COMMUNICATIONS AWARD WINNER

Zoë Metherell, an associate at Jeavons Landscape Architects, has received the National Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Research & Communications award for her work titled  “A comparative study of freeway planting designs – implications for biodiversity conservation”. This work was a collaboration between Zoë and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology and the jury noted that “this research project is an interdisciplinary partnership that sought new ways for landscape architects to meet the challenge of preserving biodiversity in the face of threats such as urbanisation, climate change and habitat loss.