Our Design Values
At Urban Landscape Projects (ULP), we believe high school grounds should do more than meet basic needs – they should be dynamic campus environments that inspire learning, connection, and school pride. Since 1990, we have created award-winning educational landscapes that balance creativity, safety, and sustainability.
Our designs transform grounds into thriving hubs for student life. We move beyond generic solutions to create flexible outdoor classrooms, study nooks, sports and fitness zones, and quiet reflection areas. Our approach is grounded in a deep understanding of how high school communities function, ensuring every project supports student well-being, curriculum delivery, and efficient campus operations.
Our designs transform grounds into thriving hubs for student life. We move beyond generic solutions to create flexible outdoor classrooms, study nooks, sports and fitness zones, and quiet reflection areas. Our approach is grounded in a deep understanding of how high school communities function, ensuring every project supports student well-being, curriculum delivery, and efficient campus operations.
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Award-Winning Design Expertise for High Schools
For over 30 years, ULP’s design team has been creating landscapes that enrich student life. Our experience covers everything from flexible learning areas and sports courts to gardens and community gathering spaces.
What sets our design apart:
What sets our design apart:
- Student-Focused Design: We create flexible spaces that support a modern curriculum, student well-being, and collaborative learning.
- Community Focus: Every high school community is unique. We listen to principals, staff, and students to ensure our design reflects the school’s identity and strategic goals.
- Safety & Compliance: Our designs meet Australian Playground Safety Standards and Departmental guidelines. With qualified Playground Safety Inspectors on our team, compliance is built in from the start.
- Practical and Buildable Outcomes: By working closely with our construction staff, we ensure every plan is costed accurately, achievable, and durable, providing grant and board-friendly solutions.
- Sustainable & Efficient Solutions: We integrate native plantings, water-wise infrastructure, and low-maintenance surfaces tailored to the operational needs of a busy high school.
Experienced, Professional Expertise
Our design team has been shaping educational landscapes for over three decades, with multiple awards recognising our contribution to learning environments.
Every design is guided by:
Every design is guided by:
- Experience & Credibility: Over 30 years of operational history and a proven record of award-winning high school campus design.
- Compliance Knowledge: Designs meet all required standards, ensuring every project is safe, accessible, and fit for purpose.
- Buildable Outcomes: Construction input is integrated early in the design phase, ensuring cost accuracy, efficient timelines, and constructability.
- Problem-Solving Approach: Our designers remain engaged during construction, offering practical solutions to overcome challenges without compromising the vision.
- In-House Safety Inspectors: Our team includes qualified Playground Safety Inspectors, ensuring every detail is planned with student well-being and risk management in mind.
Capturing Your School’s Vision
One of the most powerful aspects of our design process is consultation. We facilitate workshops with students, staff, and leadership to give them an authentic voice in shaping their own environment.
- Stakeholder Voice Matters: Engaging with end-users ensures the final design reflects how your community wants to learn, teach, and connect.
- Interactive Process: Through mapping, discussion, and planning sessions, stakeholders share their ideas, priorities, and creative visions for their outdoor spaces.
- Better Outcomes: Capturing your school’s vision means the final landscape is meaningful, relevant, and embraced by the entire community, ensuring long-term success.
Design Delivery Team
George Adams
Company Director / Design Director
Milva Petrini
Design Manager
Oliver Reeve
Landscape Designer
Felix Affable
Landscape Designer
Alyzza Surio
Landscape Arch.
The ULP Design Promise
Every ULP design is creative, functional, safe, and realistic. By working closely with our construction team, we ensure that every plan can be delivered efficiently, on time, and to the highest standard.
Our landscape plans are not catalogue selections. They are professionally prepared, architecturally drawn plans—carefully considered, buildable visions that create compliant spaces of lasting value for students, educators, and the wider school community.
Our landscape plans are not catalogue selections. They are professionally prepared, architecturally drawn plans—carefully considered, buildable visions that create compliant spaces of lasting value for students, educators, and the wider school community.
The Benefits of a Landscape Design and Construction Package
The most effective outcomes happen when ULP manages both design and construction. This turnkey solution delivers efficiency, accountability, and certainty.
From the Design Perspective:
Designers collaborate directly with builders to ensure plans are costed accurately, compliant, and constructable. Because the design team stays involved during construction, the original vision is maintained and problems are solved quickly.
From the Construction Perspective: Builders benefit from direct access to the design team, ensuring questions are answered quickly and details are delivered correctly. With design and construction under one roof, there is no blame game, fewer variations, and greater accountability.
Why it matters for high schools:
From the Design Perspective:
Designers collaborate directly with builders to ensure plans are costed accurately, compliant, and constructable. Because the design team stays involved during construction, the original vision is maintained and problems are solved quickly.
From the Construction Perspective: Builders benefit from direct access to the design team, ensuring questions are answered quickly and details are delivered correctly. With design and construction under one roof, there is no blame game, fewer variations, and greater accountability.
Why it matters for high schools:
- Fewer Disruptions: One streamlined process minimises disruption to term schedules and campus life.
- Cost Certainty: Budgets are realistic and set from the start, providing clarity for school boards and P&Cs. No surprises, no hidden extras.
- True Accountability: One team owns the entire process, from concept to completion.
- Student-Focused Outcomes: With design oversight during construction, the end result truly reflects the school’s strategic needs and vision.
- Professional, Qualified Construction: We guarantee our services. Other contractors may be unqualified, uninsured, or lack the specialist experience required to deliver the compliant, durable outcome your school deserves.
This turnkey solution makes the process smoother, faster, and more reliable. “We make it easy.”