Experienced Landscape Architect, Kevin Salmon, joins tor&co
We are delighted that Kevin Salmon has joined us as Technical Director to lead our landscape team in the West Midlands.
With 25 years’ experience as a landscape architect, Kevin is perfectly positioned to support the growth of our Birmingham office, in response to a growing demand for landscape services in the region.
He has demonstrable knowledge in the design, assessment, implementation, maintenance and management of commercial, public, and private sector regeneration, public realm and major road and rail infrastructure schemes.
Since beginning his career in the residential sector in 2001, Kevin has worked for several landscape and architectural practices, a national water company’s technical services department, a leisure-focused project management firm alongside ecologists and arboriculture professionals, a leading north American, multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy and latterly for an award-winning Birmingham based urban design, landscape architectural and heritage practice.
Kevin has extensive, cross-sector experience having worked on large scale NSIPs such as HS2 early works and the widening of the M25 and M1, multi-million pound public realm schemes in Northampton, Kettering, Eastbourne and latterly in Walsall and Tamworth, logistics parks in the form of Magna Park in Milton Keynes, on strategic new settlement developments such as Cambourne in Cambridge, Stanton Cross and the 5000-dwelling Worcester Parkway, housing, tall building BTR and PBSA schemes across the country, golf course extensions and driving ranges in Richmond Park and Gatwick Airlinks, Perry Barr and Wellingborough stations and major EIA and LDO driven LVIA for the Grain Branch Line reopening/extension and Hoo Peninsula in Kent.
Kevin has a particular interest in humanist placemaking, permaculture and biodiverse and concept driven design and excited to bring his extensive experience to our clients in the West Midlands and throughout the UK.