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Chris Estes, Professional Landscape Architect and General Contractor

President
Estes Design Inc
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Mr. Estes is a graduate of the University of Georgia, professional Landscape Architect and General Contractor. He is president and owner of Estes Design, Inc., and Anglesy Construction in Charlotte NC, specializing in Green Infrastructure design & construction for storm water compliance. Mr. Estes grew up in rural Georgia after moving from England while he was in grade school. Through spending all his teen years farming and as a steward of the environment, his passion grew for discovering the practicality of how ecological processes function in nature. Mr. Estes spent the early part of his career studying and delineating streams and wetlands, and designing and building stream restoration projects. Mr. Estes later conducted research on culvert plunge pool energy dissipation in urban streams that was published by the Journal of American Water Resources Association. This research resulted in new standards for urban stream restoration.
Through his urban wetland & stream projects in North Carolina, Mr. Estes saw first hand how impervious watershed modification profoundly changes and degrades surface waters in developing watersheds. Mr. Estes has spent the last 18 years researching infiltration in clay soils and implementing strategies to reverse this trend through innovative infiltration and pavement technologies, including the first multi-family pervious concrete (PC) parking system in Piedmont North Carolina and the first private and public (PC) parking lots in Kentucky.

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