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February 16, 2012The former co-owner of Brown and Danos Landdesign has joined Duplantis Design Group and begun serving as the firm’s inaugural director of landscape architecture, DDG announced.
Chad Danos, 44, has worked as a sub-consultant with DDG for 15 years while also operating his company. The Larose native said he decided to join forces with Duplantis after he and his business partner decided to “go our separate ways and do our own thing.”
Danos said the new Duplantis division would allow the firm to offer clients an enhanced development crafted in-house.
“I think more and more developments are really looking at not only just what’s inside of a building, but the full experience for people,” he said. “What they experience when they drive up to the site, get into the parking lot and walk into the building, that whole experience is part of making a successful development, whether it’s a private development, a public space, you name it.”
Danos holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, of which he is vice president of government affairs.
Duplantis Design Group is based in Thibodaux and has branches in Houma, Baton Rouge, Covington and Houston.
The firm is licensed to provide civil engineering and architectural services throughout the southeast and beyond. A sister company called Acadia Land Surveying can provide surveying for clients in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.
David Duplantis, the DDG president who founded the company in 1997, called the new division a “logical growth opportunity for the firm.”
The new division will focus on environmental design, park and recreation planning, municipal design, campus planning and development design, according to a press release. It will be based in Baton Rouge.
Duplantis Design Group prepared the drawings for the redesign of Andolsek Park in Thibodaux.
“I think the bottom line was how to take it to the next step to where I can actually have more of an opportunity to build something that has a greater influence, if you will,” Danos said. “By taking the ability to have more input on projects, whether it’s just a shopping center or a downtown project, and just adding some value to it, I think there’s a lot of satisfaction to me in doing that.”
