2023 Class of Fellows, Patrick Beam, Ohio Chapter

Beam Designs, Dublin, OH
by Staff

Ohio Chapter, Category: Leadership/Management

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Ohio Chapter, Category: Leadership/Management

Pat Beam is Ohio's foremost landscape architecture leader in watershed management and in licensure advocacy and defense. For more than four decades, he has created and preserved environments that enhance the quality of life and inform people about the rich diversity and delicate balance of the natural world. A practice innovator, community activist, and advocate at the national, regional, state, and local levels, Pat leads through private practice, and through public appointments and leadership with the Maumee River Basin Partnership of Local Governments, Scenic Ohio, the Ohio Landscape Architects Board, CLARB Board of Directors, ASLA Ohio, and others. His leadership accomplishments are all the more significant because Pat works with extremely constrained budgets in struggling rural and small communities, but he finds ways to build coalitions and leverage every dollar. Pat's efforts were critical in transforming watershed management and garnering millions of dollars of federal and state transportation and conservation funds focused on significant watershed protection improvements in the nationally and globally important Lake Erie Western Basin and Ohio River Basin watersheds. In addition, Pat's leadership in professional licensure advocacy was critical to the passage of the practice law in Ohio in 2002. Pat was a significant contributor and leader on the ASLA/CLARB Best Practices for Advocacy and the first ASLA /CLARB joint licensure summit. His exemplary leadership was recognized with the 2019 Ohio Chapter Service Award.