Beighley & Associates by Karen Peinl A palette of both formal and native plantings accent the multi-faceted brick retaining wall and entry monumentation for Lake Oswego Pointe. The firm completed all aspects of the planting and irrigation design and outdoor amphitheatre layout for this project. The Sunnyside Little Chapel of the Chimes received a Beautification Award from the North Clackamas Chamber of Commerce. The Landscape Architect completed intricate pathway layouts, planting and irrigation plants, and extensive design of the gazebos, walls, seating areas and elegant monuments. Beighley & Associates, Inc. (BAI) has had a well-earned reputation in the Pacific Northwest for practical yet innovative Landscape Architecture since 1973. The firm's experience covers a broad range of landscape planning and design, urban development, streetscapes and public places, schools and institutions, industrial and commercial developments, parks, athletic and recreational facilities, single and multifamily dwellings and interior plantings. The company serves both the public and private sectors, and often coordinates between the two. Hal Beighley has 28 years of experience in both Landscape Architecture and irrigation consulting. He is particularly skilled in the identification and use of plant materials, installation techniques and soil preparation requirements, with an emphasis on development of landscape maintenance programs. He has specialized in the fields of irrigation design, being one of the first in the nations to include in his irrigation designs the use of computerized central irrigation control, which emphasizes water conservation techniques. Project sites, utilizing central irrigation control, are handled by Irrigation Management Systems (IMS), run by Ellen Beighley. The company was started in 1986, in response to increasing pressure from property owners and managers to find a cost-effective way for them to better manage water and power resources. IMS monitors the irrigation systems in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah for large-scale retailers, campus industrial/office parks, athletic fields, and other commercial or public entities, all from a computer in their Portland office. This eliminates the need for the client to have personnel on-site to manually program controllers or watch for system malfunctions. This computerized system, through phone lines, communicates with the controller at each client's site and monitors the local weather conditions, amount of water use, water flow, application rates, and malfunctions in the system. If a mainline ruptures or a sprinkler head is damaged, the computer can identify the location of the damage and automatically shuts that area down, resulting in the savings of hundreds of gallons of water. Using this system has resulted in IMS clients realizing significant reductions in water, fertilizers, pesticides, plant material loss and labor costs. President Hal Beighley maintains, "We feel lucky to be able to practice in the Pacific Northwest; our clients are very aware of their responsibility to the environment." He continues, crediting the firm's personal attention to detail, "Using native plants and incorporating water conservation concepts into our designs helps our clients achieve that goal." lasn