Students can visit this site to find one-time project opportunities requested by the public – a great way to hone one’s portfolio and resume!
If you are an interested student, please contact the requestor directly. Students are responsible for negotiating their own terms of payment, if any. Job Board clients may be contacted by CED staff to assess their satisfaction with the CED Job Board experience.
Please note that the work generated by College of Environment and Design faculty, staff and students is conceptual in nature and additional professional services may be needed to implement the project. The College is not responsible for consequences that may arise as a result of using conceptual designs as construction documents.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Lewis at [email protected] or 706-542-6760.
Posted January 2025
*NEW* Stokes Yard – Residential Landscaping | Athens, GA (Clarke County)
Contact: Colin Stokes, Email: [email protected], Phone: 706-614-0021
Description: We are doing a renovation on the back of our house in the Athens Five Points area that we hope will be completed by mid-March. The work has torn up all our existing landscaping and we need to pretty much start from scratch. The site is rather small and contains potentially challenging topography.
Timeline for completion: Early March 2025
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for implementation: TBD
Posted October 2024
Belfair Neighborhood Entrance Design | Bogart, GA (Oconee County)
Contact: Gary Hawkins, Belfair HOA president, Email: [email protected], Phone: 229-392-8819
Description: We are looking for someone to update the front and back entrances of the neighborhood to make them more inviting. Currently, the entrances have large holly bushes, overgrown vegetation, and lighting issues. One board member described this entrance as a “1980s neighborhood entrance.” We’d like to make these entrances more modern by removing the holly bushes and potentially other plants and adding year-round interest to the area.
Timeline for completion: In time to get new plants if that is what is recommended (March/ or April 2025)
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for implementation: TBD
Project: Residential Poolside Landscaping | Athens, GA
Contact: David Osborne, Email: [email protected]
Description: Need a landscape design for a backyard poolside area. We need someone to select appropriate trees/plants for the area. We are very open-minded!
Timeline for completion: End of 2024
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for implementation: TBD
Posted August 2024
Project: Scripture Garden for Covenant Global Methodist Church | Smyrna, GA
Contact: David Moore, Email: [email protected]
Phone: 706-247-6040
Description: We are a church wanting to have a unique and beautiful garden. Fenced area with a single entrance, the garden area to be landscaped is approximately 60 feet by 120 feet. Area on flat ground with no obstacles to move. Twelve to eighteen scripture verses to be installed in granite/concrete or other appropriate permanent markers. We would like a meandering path through the garden leading to the verses and benches. A sedimentation pond needs to be screened. Landscaped with trees and shrubs.
Timeline for completion: We hope to begin some planting this fall with final installation in the Spring of 2025.
Budget for design work: TBD.
Budget for implementation: $75,000
Project: Rydal Residence | Rydal, GA
Contact: Katie and Chris Covington, Email: [email protected], Phone: 770-713-1493
Description: We are interested in a plan primarily for the front hill of our home and around the pool enclosure. Our home faces west, so we have gorgeous sunsets every evening but nowhere to really sit and enjoy them. We are looking to create an outdoor living space to appreciate the beauty of the surrounding scenery. We’d like help designing something that blends into the natural landscape. We would be amenable to native plants / grasses. We also have a small, flat backyard where we’d love to create an English garden feel with patio space.
Timeline for completion: 6-12 months.
Budget for design work: TBD.
Budget for implementation: $10,000-15,000.
Posted July 2024
Project: Project Plan for House | Roswell, GA
Contact: Kathleen Chatterton, Email: [email protected], Phone: 404-316-0762
Description: My house has negative grade on 3 sides. I am in need of a plan to keep rainwater from moving toward my house. I am also looking for suggestions for the placement of any topsoil or drain locations to direct water toward the creek in a way that minimizes erosion.
Timeline for completion: TBD
Budget for design work: $0-100
Budget for implementation: $1000
Project: New Construction Lake Lanier Site Design | Gainesville, GA
Contact: Nathan Cleaver, Email: [email protected], Phone: 660-349-7048
Description: At our 2.75 acre, newly built lake front home, we have limitless design potential. Our project has many exciting potential design elements. We are in the process of starting construction on a guesthouse/garage with an attached greenhouse. There are many zones within the property: lakefront area, pool area, house area, guesthouse / garage area, fruit tree / possible vineyard / possible wild grass area connecting between the house and garage. We are trying to create a design for an outdoor fireplace adjacent to the lake while preserving the lake nature reserve element. At our fence line surrounding our pool, we are looking to create a manicured feel with an area of sod, a privacy berm that can blend privacy elements with design features including a possible man-made stream. At the base of this, we are considering a putting green / artificial turf area for kids play area. We have many other ideas that are best described in person. This design would likely require an initial site visit to discuss the plan design, as well as 1-2 meetings during the design process (may be able to make one of these virtual), and one in person meeting to review the final designs.
Timeline for completion: 2-3 months
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for implementation: TBD – likely will be a phased implementation of the next 12-18 months
Posted June 2024
Project: Strawn Residence | Athens, GA
Contact Name: Carrie Strawn; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 770-547-1873
Description: I would love to see if any of the students would be interested in helping us with landscape design for our property. We have large amounts of undesigned green space and are aiming to work towards the final design over a few years since the work will likely be extensive. We are looking for someone to help us create dedicated gardens, hardscapes, and add a water feature.
Timeline for completion: TBD
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for installation: TBD
Project: Landscape Design for Sheriff Residence | Carlton, GA
Contact Name: Rhonda Sheriff; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 404-428-7617
Description: We just purchased 56 acres with a 4 sided brick home. Around the house has drainage / water issues. It also has no landscaping around the home. We have a small creek in the back of property we would like to make a sitting area. In the future we also will need help as we plan to add a pool and outdoor kitchen.
Opportunities: Will have wonderful before / after opportunities.
Challenges: Trying to be cost conscious
Timeline for completion: Drainage issues-Immediate; Landscaping-Flexible
Budget for design work: TBD
Budget for installation: TBD
Posted April 2024
Project: Milt’s Backyard | Alpharetta, GA
Contact: Milton Williams, Email: [email protected], Phone: 770-296-4993
Description: I am looking for a complete backyard renovation and makeover. The yard is about ½ acre and is fenced it. Currently there are areas of soil erosion and bamboo creep near the fence. I would like to see the grading and water drainage situation improved. I would also like to create a space that is bird and bee friendly.
Timeline for completion: Summer 2024
Budget for design work: $500.
Budget for implementation: $2,500.
Project: ECCO HQ Outdoor Space | Berkeley Lake, GA
Contact: Anna Egipto, Email: [email protected], Phone: 470-913-2843
Description: Equipment Controls Company (ECCO) is looking to turn the outdoor space behind the company headquarters in Berkeley Lake, Georgia into a wildlife sanctuary. This will entail planting certain locally originated plants and shrubs, along with ones that attract and support birds, butterflies, etc. in accordance with the Georgia Audubon Society’s certification guidelines. We would also like the space to be inviting and a place where employees can congregate outdoors.
Timeline for completion: Spring / Summer 2024
Budget for design work: TBD.
Budget for implementation: TBD.
Project: Vintage Club Neighborhood | Greensboro, GA
Contact: Michelle Harth, Email: [email protected], Phone: 603-781-8652
Description: Vintage Club is a small neighborhood of duplexes in Greensboro. The houses are all on top of a hill beside a creek or the lake. We are having problems with erosion in some areas and are looking for solutions that use native plants and require low maintenance. Our goals are stop to erosion, promote native flora, minimize maintenance, and find sustainable solutions. Perhaps also to create a habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife and work with neighbors to share the benefits of natural landscaping.
Timeline for completion: The sooner the better as the problem will only persist, but can work with whatever is realistic.
Budget for design work / implementation: Not yet determined, will need to go through the neighborhood board, open to discussion.
Project: The Cedars | Washington, GA
Contact: Ken, Email: [email protected], Phone: 404-790-1986
Description: The Cedars is a large Victorian home on 6 acres in the center of the town of Washington, Georgia. The property sits on a high point of the city and has a number of large, cedar trees around the home and on the land of adjoining neighbors. In addition, there are approximately 20 large pecan trees, 6-8 dogwood, a maple, a tulip tree and 2 large magnolia trees in the areas close to the house. The goal of this project will be to create plans for landscape and hardscape to improve existing designs and accommodate changes to the home and property (including adding a barn) while working around large, old trees. There are a number of old growth plantings on the property including English boxwoods, sea / blue oats, crepe myrtle, camelia bushes, azalea bushes, and tea olive. Many of these will be best moved to locations that will work better for the plants and the property. We would like to add a number of fruit trees and blueberry bushes on the property as well as create spaces for food and flower garden beds. Envisioning and locating improvements to hardscape in drawings will be important to ensure their impacts are considered before we begin planting. For the initial stage, we hope to create general landscape and hardscape plans for property, with more comprehensive drawings and plant selections for areas to the front and around the home. We are open to work with one or more students in undertaking this project.
Timeline for completion: TBD.
Budget for design work: TBD.
Budget for implementation: TBD.
Posted March 2024
Project: Lane Creek New Home Landscape Design Without Turf | Bishop, GA
Contact: Milynn Swofford, Email: [email protected], Phone: 610-772-4025
Description: This is a new home lot in an existing neighborhood. We retained as many trees on the property as possible and we would like to finish the property without turf. We grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia, PA and regularly visited Longwood Gardens. The acres and acres of naturalized gardens and pathways there are beyond bucolic; we would like our property to somewhat echo this feel even if our own lot is only one acre. We recently moved to Georgia from Colorado. Our landscaping there was naturalized… more on the xeriscaping design. We learned there to focus on beauty which was both deer resistant and low water requirements. What we would like to do here with the new one-acre property in GA is to bring a finish reflective natural gardens… including water features and firepit… with pathways, flowering plants / shrubs / trees throughout the year and appropriate evergreen privacy while not including traditional grass lawns and plantings.
Timeline for completion: The home should close in March or April, 2024. Project completion is open to the needs of those working on it.
Budget for design work: Up to $5,000.
Budget for implementation: TBD, as this is likely a multi-year implementation.
Project: Hilgeman Residence | Greensboro, GA
Contact: Chris Hilgeman, Email: [email protected], Phone: 404-444-3279
Description: We are homeowners on Lake Oconee and parents of a recent UGA graduate. We purchased the home four years ago and have recently re-sided the house. Now the landscaping needs to be of the same “look” and quality as the house. We are looking for a simple (not overdone), but attractive design. Our property has an existing pond and various areas to landscape as a “blank slate”. We do have deer, foxes, rabbits, armadillos that like to eat on our property as well as miscellaneous grading challenges.
Timeline for completion: This spring.
Budget for design work: Approx. $5k.
Budget for implementation: $30K to $50K.
