Environmental Dynamics Analysis: To design with a changing system, LVF collaborates with an array of specialist to develop iterative analysis and design methods that enable fluid design development. We specialize in working in wet conditions, in tight coordination with Hydraulics and Hydrology experts.

Adaptive Management: When Nature-Based Infrastructure is at its best, it should change in form and space to guide the evolution of environmental systems. To enable these transformations and address new conditions, strategic adaptive management is a vital part of the design process. LVF works with governmental agencies to study an array of properties exhibited by plants and substrate that can be manipulated to enhance currently known best practices.

Monitoring: For state and federal agencies to fully buy in to Nature Based Infrastructure implementation, there must be effective ways to monitor the evolution of these environmental systems. We work with a host of specialists ranging from remote sensing to spectroscopy to plant sciences to develop novel methods of tracking and mapping. This mapping includes discrete plant species, sediment as well as water and wet landscapes.