Johns Hopkins University Selects E-Landscape for Mudd Hall Landscape Installation
Davidsonville, MD June 12, 2012 –
Davidsonville, Maryland‐based commercial landscaper E‐Landscape Specialty Solutions announced
today that it has been awarded the contract to install the landscape for the expansion of The Johns
Hopkins University’s Mudd Hall on Homewood Campus.
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University is known around the globe for its stellar
academics and medical programs. Mudd Hall provides classes to nearly half of the University’s Arts and
Sciences and Engineering students. This 105,000 square foot building will include four floors plus a
basement, 14 new laboratories, 19 faculty offices, 5 seminar rooms and new student commons with a
coffee bar. The building will also meet the standard for LEED Silver certification, with a goal of reducing
energy use by half as compared with existing science buildings on campus.
The expansion was designed by architecture firm Ballenger of Philadelphia and constructed by Whiting
Turner of Baltimore. The landscape design for this expansion was by Mahan Rykiel of Baltimore.
Renovations for this project began on June 6, 2012. E‐Landscape will complete landscaping for two
interior courtyards (including hoisting soil in via crane) and the construction of bioretention ponds and
rain gardens. Mudd hall is scheduled to open in the summer of 2013.
“Johns Hopkins University is one of the biggest employers in the State of Maryland and a marquis
educational institution. We are thrilled at the opportunity to contribute to the University’s expansion
through this project,” commented E‐Landscape President Eric Drenner. “It is also a great opportunity to
once again work with Whiting Turner, with whom we have partnered in the past.”