KAIZEN philosophy

Providing Collaborative Teaming Towards Continual Improvement

Creating Active Healthy Communities with each Project

OUR MISSION

To offer our clients highly-specialized landscape architecture, civil engineering, planning, and GIS services, focusing primarily on healthy, active communities.

OUR NAME

KAIZEN is a Japanese practice that embraces continual improvement over time.  We recognize that lasting change cannot happen all at once. It must be strategic and COLLABORATIVE to have the greatest impact. 

OUR ORIGIN

KAIZEN Collaborative was founded in 2010 with the specific intent of bringing together the best talent to provide expertise to clients building active transportation and recreation facilities. 

 

ABOUT / KAIZEN COLLABORATIVE

KAIZEN Collaborative was founded in 2010 with the specific intent of bringing together the best talent to provide expertise to clients building active transportation and recreation facilities.  KAIZEN’s unique teaming approach brings each project the specific experience necessary to create communities desiring and embracing bicycle and pedestrian active lifestyles.  KAIZEN Collaborative offers our clients highly-specialized landscape architecture, civil engineering, and planning services, focusing primarily on healthy, active environments.

Since our inception, KAIZEN Collaborative has successfully completed the planning of 900+ miles of multi-use trails with over 30 communities, designed for construction 100 miles of bicycle/pedestrian facilities, making KAIZEN Collaborative one of the leading trail planning and design firms in the Southeast.  Our project management skills, innovative approaches, and multi-disciplinary experiences set us apart from all other consulting firms.

From the end of 2019, KAIZEN began to provide both landscape architecture and civil engineering services to a vast array of projects and clients by specializing in:  

 
  • Multi-Use Trail Planning and Design

  • Site Design

  • Public Land Use Permitting

  • Hydrology and Flood Study

  • Branding and Signage Design

 

OUR TEAM

ALLISON CLARKE

SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

ANDIE ELLER

ASSOCIATE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

ANNETTE OUDOM

EIT, CIVIL ENGINEER

CHUCK ABBOTT

PE, PRINCIPAL

cOOPER bROCK

EIT, CIVIL ENGINEER

LUIZ GESTAL

CIVIL ENGINEER

MACY KHAMSA

Associate landscape architect

NICO SHEN

PLA, associate principal

SETH RALSTON

CIVIL ENGINEER

TANNER COPELAND

SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

TONY MADORE

ASSOCIATE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

we are always LOOKING FOR new TEAM MEMBERS WHO WANT TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT TRAILS ACROSS THE SOUTH EAST…