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Gibbons joins Nelson & Pope as project manager

Thomas Gibbons,
Nelson & Pope

Melville, NY Nelson & Pope (N&P), a multi-disciplined AEC firm, has hired Thomas Gibbons, Jr., RLA, as project manager for N&P’s site division. Gibbons comes to N&P with 20 years of experience in a multi-discipline environment. His background covers a wide variety of site design programs including sports facilities and complexes, park master planning, playgrounds, golf courses, cemeteries, shopping centers and private site design. Gibbons measures the success of a project, not solely on how it looks at completion, but how it functions long-term. His expertise ranges from small garden designs all the way up to master planning of large projects including parks and sports complexes. He has personally performed the design work or provided guidance of the work resulting in comprehensive and uniform designed products. He is a registered landscape architect in New York and Connecticut and is certified by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards. He has a BLA in Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and an A.A.S. in Ornamental Horticulture from SUNY Farmingdale. Additionally, he is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

“We are pleased to welcome Tom to the firm.  He is extremely talented and brings a wealth of landscape architectural knowledge that will enhance our firm’s capabilities, says Joseph Epifania, PE, Partner of Nelson & Pope.”

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