2025 RRSLA INTERNSHIP BLOG

 Hello folks! I hope all is well with you all once more... Assignment Updates: WEEK SEVENTEEN ·          Wrapped up BREC proposal. ·          Tuesday Morning, I picked up our proposal prints that were wound into booklets and delivered them to BREC’s office. ·          Continued work on JD Clifton adjusting proposed linework with the existing survey. WEEK EIGHTEEN ·          Weekly Staff Meeting on Monday Morning ·          Continued work on JD Clifton adjusting proposed linework with the existing survey. WEEK NINETEEN ·          There is a 30% CD Set due next Thursday for JD Clifton Park in Lake Charles. I am working with Amy and Conner to put together the set. ·          Still awaiting Ro...

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Good Day Peeps! As always, I hope all is well, we are now reaching the summer extension blogs  Assignment Updates: WEEK FIFTEEN ·          Looked over Park precedents for Moncus Park ·          I worked on redline corrections on sheets for the Roseate Beach open space. ·          We took an office trip to visit a couple of projects in New Orleans. Gretna City Park was the first stop where we pulled weeds/cat tails then took a walk around the park. Around noon we had lunch at this place called Juniors. The second stop was Mirabeau Ave where they are constructing a storm water management garden to hold and dispose of floodwaters that consistently troubled the area. WEEK SIXTEEN ·          Tasked with drawing up a parking lot in CAD for a client who plans to sell the parking spaces to surrounding businesses. Just a si...

I have officially started making planting plans and doing more stuff. My boss has really been given me more work and I’ve also started doing some hand drawing/rendering.  I’ve had a lot of fun and it’s been a great internship . Very glad that I Had Michael nearby cause I prob would have gone insane if not. Staying for the summer so hopefully that goes well.

 Welcome BACKKKKK! ---------------------------------------------------------------- About 2 weeks ago, I got to go on a site visit.   YAYYY! We got a call from a family in East Tennessee who recently built their home and wants to redesign their backyard and do some more landscape around the whole house.  We were very excited to help and drove down to visit. We got to meet with our client and walk around her property.  We learned that her property neighbors her mom's and her brothers - and she grew up in her parent's house next door.  How cool! We gathered info - took photos - ate lunch at Cracker Barrel - and went back to the office! I got to ask lots of questions and it was very nice to watch how my coworkers interacted with the client and see what questions they asked. Some pictures:  backyard - they've started planting but its just not enough back here found this guy front - they want to redesign their driveway and redo the plant beds her mom has a reall...

HELLO  HELLO! About 3 weeks ago I magically appeared in Dallas. You know who else is in Dallas?  ... ADDYYYY!!! (everybody say yay right now)  In all seriousness, Addy and I had been planning this trip for a while at this point and we were so excited. Addy, being the fantastic friend she is - had to deal with the chaos that is DFW airport and drove laps around that tiny little airport city just to pick me up.   We went downtown that night and visited the Nasher Sculpture Center for an event they were having with food and an outdoor concert! It was gorgeous and I loved it.  We then left and proceeded to run around that city like children having the time of our lives chasing rabbits and rolling down hills.  I'm not lying, I swear. For the rest of our weekend, we continued to wreck havoc on Dallas - jumping on rocks in creeks and piddling around in thrift stores.  We ate so many donuts. I was stuffed.  Addy drove me to her studio! this was so fun and...

HI TEAM Welcome back.  WOOO HOOO!    | | | | | | | | YAAAY! | | | | | | This blog is going to be a bit of a flash back to about 6 weeks ago.  I was walking in for our Monday morning meeting when my boss said, "Kenzie, how would you like to make a neighborhood?" I replied, "Brandon, that sounds fantastic. Please give it to me." And then I started asking myself how one makes a neighborhood.  ...  But thankfully I have a great teacher named Blair Parker who is quite experienced in neighborhood design who sat down with me and helped me walk through the design process.   The idea here is to lay out the basics - streets and lots - to give our client, the developer, a master plan to take to present to the city.  Neighborhood pics incoming:  sketching out da neighborhood one of the most current versions (I didn't take a picture of the newest one - whoopsies)   real question - would you move into my neighborhood? It can be a studio neighborhood?...