Season 2
SEASON 2 EPISODE 3
In this episode of Land Language, hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with Angelique Robb, founder of SYNKD, a media platform and event series uniting landscape professionals across architecture, construction, and horticulture. Together, they work through the communication failures that fracture design-build-maintain projects, explore two materials most US practitioners haven't come across yet, and land on a shared conviction: stormwater management belongs to anyone who calls themselves a landscape professional.
“It doesn't matter if you're the same company or a separate company; it all boils down to communication between the groups.”
—Angelique Robb
We explore:
Why most projects lose ground at the design-build-maintain handoff and what it takes to hold it
How Angelique gathers the people who design, build, and maintain landscapes into the same room
The communication practice that separates projects that go well from the ones that don't
What the oil rigs taught her about managing a landscape practice
Why stormwater, grading, and runoff management belong to landscape professionals
We discuss what actually separates projects that go well from projects that don't, with two unexpected technologies that show how much room the industry still has to move.
Angelique Robb is the founder of SYNKD, a media platform and event series uniting landscape architects, contractors, designers, and horticulturists to accelerate progress and shape more sustainable practice.
Before SYNKD, she ran Papillon Designs and Landscaping in Scotland, a national award-winning design-build-maintain firm she launched in 2008 after qualifying as a landscape designer.
She holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University and worked in the oil and gas industry in the United States, UK, Middle East, Far East, and Eastern Europe before moving into landscape design. She is based in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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