Case Study: Newton Landscape Group achieves terrain-conquering, award-winning residential designs with VectorWorks

Strong Connections Lead to Success in Residential Design

Newton Landscape Group (NLG) is a Baton Rouge design/build firm focused on residential projects and long-term client relationships. They routinely face challenging sites — for example, the 12-acre Turkey Creek Residence required resolving significant elevation changes, preserving lakefront views, and delivering a high-end, seamless connection between house, pool and landscape while keeping client communication personal and clear.

NLG leveraged Vectorworks Landmark (with SketchUp for massing) to create site models, simulate reshaped lake edges, design a negative-edge pool and generate quick sections and accurate take-offs, which improved visualization, estimating and CAD collaboration with architects. The outcome was dramatic, award-winning results—enhanced views and functionality at Turkey Creek, a transformed Rubicon Park praised in OSHA reports—and faster, more accurate project delivery that reinforced client satisfaction and long-term relationships.

Newton Landscape Group

Seth Rodewald-Bates

Architect