Denver companies and landscapes honored with ALCC ELITE Awards


Landscape projects demonstrate the best in landscape construction, maintenance and community stewardship

Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado (ALCC) recently recognized a number of Denver-area companies and landscapes at the 2022 ELITE Awards. The ELITE Awards is the only program of its kind in Colorado and recognizes state-wide landscape companies for unparalleled professionalism, excellence and innovation.

“This has been another incredibly busy and challenging year for those who work in the landscape industry,” said ALCC Chief Executive Officer John McMahon. “This year’s award winners exhibited impressive commitment to key values including environmental stewardsh­­ip as well as sound business practices and community service.”

The 2022 awards, an annual event for more than 50 years, recognized winners in nine different categories ranging from Sustainability to Landscape Construction.

Denver-based Lifescape Colorado was honored with three Gold ELITE Awards at this year’s ceremony. The first Award for Residential Design/Build was given for the company’s full-scale upgrade of a property in Englewood belonging to one of Metro Denver’s most prominent families. The renovation incorporated luxury amenities and elevated outdoor style and successfully blended the owners’ differing preferences for a natural Colorado landscape and a sophisticated, lush one. The Lifescape Colorado team also worked around the existing pool and house/bar structure and updated all plumbing, irrigation and lighting to be more eco-friendly and high-tech.

Lifescape Colorado’s landscape that won the Gold ELITE Award for Residential Design/Build

Lifescape Colorado received its second Gold ELITE Award for Residential Landscape Maintenance for work at a Boulder property where it has a dedicated Senior Garden Manager, two fall clean-ups and one spring clean-up. The company has maintained the 34,000-square-foot property for the past four years, overcoming challenges to keep the site looking formal while balancing site constraints and strict “green” city ordinances.

Lifescape Colorado’s landscape that won the Gold ELITE Award for Residential Landscape Maintenance

Lifescape Colorado was also honored with this year’s Gold ELITE Award for Plant Design. The company created dual luxury rooftop patios, specifically retrofit designed and built for penthouse units of a new condo tower with incredible mountain, city and baseball stadium views. The project’s plants add color to an otherwise stark area. Only container plants could be used due to strict weight restrictions, and all trees, annuals and perennials had to be able to survive harsh weather conditions and severe winds on top of the 14-story building.

Lifescape Colorado’s landscape that won the Gold ELITE Award for Plant Design

Environmental Designs was recognized for its work installing a Holocaust Memorial Garden at a Denver synagogue with the Gold ELITE Award for Community Stewardship. The Loveland- and Brighton-area business completed this project as part of the Daffodil Project, an initiative to build living memorials to commemorate lives of children lost in the Holocaust by planting 1.5 million daffodils worldwide. Environmental Designs worked with the synagogue and preschool to design, fundraise and install the garden. The team was able to secure donations for many of the materials for the project from suppliers, which helped to keep costs down, and more than 20 employees participated in the installation. When the garden was completed, Environmental Designs and the synagogue hosted a community volunteer day where they partnered with locals to plant, mulch and install drip irrigation.

Environmental Designs landscape that won the Gold ELITE Award for Community Stewardship

Centennial-based Designscapes Colorado received the Gold ELITE Award for Irrigation Management for the renovation and replacement of the irrigation system at a Denver golf course. The company added new lateral lines and a new central control 2-wire system, using tree protection for existing roots. The new irrigation system improved the existing turf, resulting in more golfers, much to the client’s satisfaction. 

Designscapes Colorado landscape that won the Gold ELITE Award for Irrigation Management

The Silver ELITE Award for Landscape Construction was given to Aurora-based Singing Hills Landscape for their renovation at a Denver home. The homeowners wanted the new and improved landscape to stay true to the historic nature of their Denver home, and the Singing Hills team matched the historic brick on the house with newly manufactured brick stained to give them a vintage appearance and sourced antique flagstone. They also overcame access and drainage challenges to successfully finish this extensive project. 

Aurora-based Singing Hills landscape that received the Silver ELITE Award for Landscape Construction

Brightview Landscape Services, Inc. was awarded the Silver ELITE Award for Commercial Landscape Maintenance in recognition of their work at an Aurora property over the last five years. The Denver- and Broomfield-based business has worked closely with the client and associated groups to care for over 700,000 square feet of turf, more than 400,000 square feet of beds and over 200,000 square feet of native plants. Brightview team members have implemented a number of Sustainable Landscape Management (SLM) best practices including the use of mulching blades on mowers, removal and recycling of green waste, reusing plant containers and limiting unnecessary pruning or watering.

Brightview Landscape Services, Inc.’s upkeep of this landscape was honored with the Silver ELITE Award for Commercial Landscape Maintenance

Denver-based Phase One Landscapes received the Bronze ELITE Award for Residential Design/Build in recognition of its work on a landscape in Greenwood Village. The company’s mission was to bring cohesion to the homeowner’s large backyard. They transformed the space to create a cozy corner for morning coffee and entertaining space for graduation parties – somewhere the owners’ children could enjoy as they grow into adulthood.

Phase One Landscapes’s Bronze ELITE Award-winning landscape

LandCare Management received the Bronze ELITE Award for Sustainability for creating a pollinator sanctuary at Colorado Center, a LEED certified & Energy Star Rated commercial office/retail development in Denver. The Arvada company has maintained the property for the past nine years, and this year Landcare added 28 large annual/perennial floral beds, nine giant concrete flowerpots and 16 large shrub beds filled with native shrubs and tall ornamental grasses. To reduce the amount of chemicals used on the property, the landscape team relies on the emergence of beneficial bugs, which include praying mantis, green lacewing, nematodes, multiple kinds of spiders and ladybugs.

LandCare Management’s pollinator sanctuary at Colorado Center that earned it the Bronze ELITE Award for Sustainability

Phase One Landscapes employee Colby Woodvine was also recognized with the Most Valued Player or MVP award for his outstanding contributions to the company and landscape industry.

To view photos of all ELITE projects and get ideas for your own home, visit alcc.com/elite-2022.

Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado (ALCC) is the premier professional organization for Colorado’s landscape companies. For more than 55 years, ALCC has guided landscape professionals to address Colorado’s unique climate and to promote sustainable landscapes. ALCC promotes the responsible use of water and other natural resources and provides educational and industry certification opportunities to Colorado’s landscape professionals. More information at www.alcc.com.





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