How We Work
For over 20 years, these core values have informed our work.
Curiosity & Open Mindedness
We encourage curiosity and embrace a diversity of viewpoints.
Intellectual exploration makes good ideas better. The staff at SiteWorks are passionate about their projects and offer new ideas that defy current assumptions in the field.
Pragmatic Optimism
We ground our work in a thorough examination of economic and environmental realities.
By stress testing ideas, we help craft feasible approaches that get our clients’ projects built. We chart a path to success by finding opportunity amidst challenge.
Persistence & Professional Courage
We thrive when tackling a project’s hardest, most intractable issues.
Situated where natural and engineered systems converge with financial, social, cultural, and climate considerations, landscape architecture presents a uniquely broad, overlapping mix of complexities. We do not shy away from asking hard questions and believe that through persistent inquisitiveness, even the toughest challenges have viable solutions.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Native Flora Garden Expansion, Brooklyn, NY
SiteWorks provided Construction Administration, Construction Management, and Facilities Management Services for this project.
Photo credit: Timothy Schenck
Our services are defined not just by what we do but how we do it. While each project is unique, we ground each one in five foundational principles:
1. Open Communication
We invite direct, honest discussion of project aspirations and goals.
2. Creative Collaboration
We encourage diverse perspectives, which can frame both challenges and opportunities in novel, exciting ways.
3. Technical Excellence
We are constantly exploring and evaluating the use of new materials, assemblies, and implementation methodologies—not just on paper, but in the field during construction.
4. Sustainable Stewardship
We approach the long-term care of landscapes as a matter of adaptive management, planning not only for upkeep but dynamic evolution and change.
5. Environmental Education
We give owners, project teams, and end users the tools to nurture and maintain the living legacies we help create.
Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, Manhattan, NY
SiteWorks provided Construction Management Services for this project.
Photo credit: Elizabeth Felicella