BLA, Landscape Architecture

Activities and societies: John Received his BLA in 1988 from Michigan State University with High Honors, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, National Sand & Gravel Association/ASLA Mine Reclamation National Student Award, Second Place in 1987, Member of ASGCA, ASLA, GCSAA, USGA, NJTA, MIGCSA, MTF, OCA and NRA.

Overseas Study Program - Landscape Architecture

Overseas Study Program - Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture Technology (LAT)

President & Founder - Golf Course Architect

Mr. Harvey\’s golf design group is a full service firm offering golf course architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability planning, restorations and course renovations, serving public and private clients, owners and developers worldwide.

Cart Path & Bunker Liner Consultant

Mr. Harvey proudly serves Porous Pave, Inc., as a golf industry technical consultant with Porous Pave’s Bunker Liner System called Sand Guard. This bunker lining system is a permeable, poured in-place, 1″ thick, rubber-rock and proprietary binder product mixed within the vicinity of the bunker feature that helps with drainage efficacy, while protecting bunker sand from washouts, erosion, subsoil and gravel contamination and is flexible in freeze/thaw conditions. Sand Guard has 27% void space and allows 9,300 inches of rain per hour to pass through the liner.

Golf Course Architect

– Design of New Golf Courses
– Golf Course Master Planning, Renovations & Restorations
– Recreational/Resort Planning
– Brownfield Redevelopment
– Quarry/Sand & Gravel Pit Reclamation
– Practice Facilities/Short Game Areas
– Course Design Audits

Golf Course Architecture & Construction

Professional services involved environmental course design and consulting for new and existing courses in the US and abroad. While working with Mr. Rulewich, many projects involved regulatory negotiations and alternative analysis recommendations for the development of golf on mine sites, brownfileds and reclamation along with courses associated with inland and costal wetland properties. Renovation, remodeling and restoration of existing courses were also an important part of the business.

Golf Course Designer

Worked alongside Mr. Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and Roger Rulewich with Golf Course Planning, Design, Drafting and Field Design/Construction Work associated with new course development and renovation work, serving public and private clients on a variety of environmentally challenging sites.