Designed by architect Peter Walker and Partners (PWP), the third and final phase of the university’s 100-plus acre campus landscape enhancements program provided extensive plantings and new infrastructure across different areas of the campus. New features include more than 1,300 trees, turf, groundcovers, other plantings and light signage.

Crews also created a large pedestrian promenade, improved various utilities, upgraded site drainage and irrigation, built new sign structures and incorporated car and pedestrian pavements and walkways. Linbeck used an extensive potholing method to identify and locate existing utilities, then coordinated with the design team to resolve conflicts. Based on its findings, the project team decided to use spread footings instead of piers at monument signs and light poles. In areas where conflicts could not be resolved, the contractor and landscape architect found alternate locations to install trees.