Parks + Public Spaces
DMA’s trusted engineering team designs outdoor environments that bring communities together and enhance quality of life.
Parks and public spaces engineering from DMA starts with understanding how people use a place. We design parks and civic landscapes that balance functionality, sustainability, and accessibility, from neighborhood parks to major public destinations. Our civil and structural engineers work alongside landscape architects, owners, and public agencies so that drainage, utilities, and structures support the design from the first sketch through construction.
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Project Services
Project Types
Research/Planning
We at DMA are actively engaged in the research, planning and design of various parks that explore new ways to enhance the environment, optimize space utilization, and provide a high quality destination. DMA’s focus on a community’s infrastructure allows our partners to develop plans with full knowledge of opportunities and constraints.
ADA Compliance
In addition, DMA always puts particular emphasis on ADA accessibility and compliance with ADA Standards. DMA believes the rewards of ADA compliance come in many forms, not the least of which is establishing an accessible city that provides the public with access to open space, community facilities and independent mobility regardless of age or physical challenges.
Civil and Structural Engineering
Most recently, DMA served as the civil and structural engineer of record for the renovation and restoration of the Arch Grounds in St. Louis, MO. This large urban National Park is one that is oriented, physically and culturally, toward the life of the city, and one that pioneers new kinds of sustainable urban ecologies. Working with a private donor group, the National Park service and national landscape architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh, DMA helped transform this riverfront park and national monument into a desired destination for the public.