Evan Grimm, Project Manager

Evan Grimm joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in 2003 after working at Wenk Associates in Denver, Colorado for two years. He earned both Bachelor and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from Auburn University in Alabama which he completed in 2001. During graduate school, he received a National ASLA Student Honor Award for his year-long thesis in the design of civic hydrology and participated in several projects at the Rural Studio in Hale County, Alabama.

While at NBW, Evan has managed a wide range of projects including the landscape design for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rice Center, the first LEED® platinum certified project in Virginia; a master plan and pattern book for an 87-acre sustainable community known as The Coves at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia; site design for the regional headquarters of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries on the James River in Virginia; and several residential projects in Albemarle County. He was a staff designer on the Matoaka Amphitheatre Restoration at the College of William & Mary; the Asia Trail at the National Zoo; a conceptual master plan for a new town outside of Moscow, Russia; a master plan for the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve in Szechuan Province, China; and WaterColor, a new town in Walton County, Florida.

Current work includes project management for the site design of a sustainable residential community on the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia called Wild Rock; a master plan for a 300-acre development on the Cane River Lake in Natchitoches, Louisiana that incorporates sustainable agriculture practices into the design; the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; landscape design for the Lower and Middle Schools at St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, VA; and a master plan for the Loft Mountain Ranger Station in the Shenandoah National Park. He is a founding member of the Charlottesville Community Design Center.