Canning Greenworks Studio

REAL Environment Centre Masterplan,

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The REAL Environmental Centre began as a brownfield: a former Town of Smiths Falls Public Works yard previously used for road salt storage. The goal was a full conversion to a functioning community environmental education site.

Canning Greenworks developed the schematic masterplan, establishing the site program and spatial framework for what became a multi-phase ecological project. The plan integrates canoe docking and water access, a native plant meadow, community vegetable gardens with raised planters (designed to separate edible soil from contaminated subgrade), a habitat pond, community orchard, and renewable energy infrastructure including wind turbines and solar panels.

On-site work has included raingarden construction and tree planting workshops led with community volunteers — building the project while building local capacity.

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Brownfield remediation, ecological programming, and phased community implementation. If you’re working on a former industrial or municipal site and need landscape expertise from schematic through construction, this project is a reference point.

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