Civille is a design consultancy focused on making urban places more in tune with their natural surrounds. 

We bridge the gap between green and grey infrastructure, transforming cities into more sustainable and liveable places by harnessing design and engineering innovation. 

We collaborate with government, business and communities to create living systems that transform urban environments into smarter, greener places.

Our holistic and collaborative approach turns strategy into positive, sustainable outcomes – from the smallest neighbourhood project to the most ambitious urban transformation.

Alexa has more than 20 years’ experience as a consultant in urban environmental policy, strategic planning and design. With an engineering background, Alexa works across disciplinary boundaries in green and blue infrastructure, active transport, and urban heat projects, often as part of multi-disciplinary teams and involving diverse stakeholders. Alexa has substantial experience consulting to local and state government on policy and strategic planning projects, and also has experience steering complex multi-disciplinary projects through planning, design and approval stages.

David is a designer with more than twenty years’ experience in strategic planning, public open space design, green infrastructure design and sustainable urban water management, delivering feasibility and strategic studies, concept design, detailed design and construction documentation. David works effectively across multiple disciplines to deliver integrated design outcomes. David has been at the forefront of leading innovative green infrastructure designs including stormwater treatment harvesting and reuse projects, greywater wetlands, green wall and green roof treatment systems. David’s projects have won landscape architecture, engineering and planning industry awards.

Andrew is a civil and environmental engineer with a Masters in environmental management and twelve years experience in water management and urban infrastructure. Andrew has designed GPTs, bioretention systems, wetlands, stormwater harvesting systems, wetland and waterway restoration works, as well as undertaking water quality monitoring and analysis, risk assessment, and catchment analysis and strategic planning. His work spans hard urban areas and streetscapes through to natural environments, and includes masterplans, feasibility assessment, detailed design and construction supervision. Andrew has also volunteered with Engineers Without Borders Australia in India and Nepal, working on water safety planning.

Matt Ritson

Matt is a registered Landscape Architect with over 15 years of local and international experience. Matt has experience working with large multi-disciplinary teams across a wide range of projects including public realm, parklands, play spaces, active transport, education, health, cultural facilities and green and blue infrastructure. He has led award winning projects from concept design through to construction.  Matt’s passion lies in creating sustainable cities that have positive and measurable impacts on the natural systems upon which they depend. He believes that creating places and spaces that are multi-functional, adaptive and resilient is a key design outcome for all projects.

Joppe Veul

Joppe is a registered landscape architect with over 12 years of experience in local and international planning and design. He has worked across the public and private sectors on projects including parklands, open spaces, playgrounds, educational and exhibition centres, urban developments, blue-green infrastructure, and active transport networks. With expertise in master planning, concept design, and construction documentation, Joppe is committed to creating meaningful and sustainable connections between communities and their environments. His design philosophy integrates ecological processes and cultural context to foster vibrant, resilient, and beautiful spaces.

Jess Garment

Jess is a landscape architect with three years of experience across public sector projects, including parklands, open spaces, and playspaces. She also teaches part-time in the Landscape Architecture Department at UTS. With a strong interest in art, graphic design, and visual communication, she has strong experience in interdisciplinary collaboration. Driven by a commitment to thoughtful and meaningful design, Jess strives to create spaces that are sensitive of their context and considerate of more-than-human communities.

Ganan Yin

Ganan is a civil engineer with over six years’ professional experience in traffic and transport engineering. He has experience in planning, concept and detailed design of active transport infrastructure, and in integrating green infrastructure into transport and streetscape treatments.  Ganan is accredited as a NSW Road Safety Auditor. Ganan’s approach is informed by updated practices, relevant road design guidelines and real-world examples, supported by a strong sense of road safety.

Thomas Hawthorne

Thomas is an environmental scientist with expertise in leading and managing long-term water quality monitoring as well as short-term, project-based water quality analyses. Thomas has a background in plant ecology and bushfire mitigation. His thesis focused on understanding bushfire risk at wildland-urban boundaries in high bushfire risk areas to mitigate the damage of bushfires. This project has led to his written work being published in a scientific journal.

Sam Lockwood

Sam is a landscape architect who specialises in the design and revitalisation of streets and urban spaces. He is also passionate about ecological restoration within urban environments, integrating sustainable practices and enhancing biodiversity in his projects. Sam has a strong belief that sound landscape design can ameliorate many problems facing society today, be they social or environmental. Sam is a regular bush regeneration volunteer with National Parks and the Cooks River Mudcrabs.

Mark du Cros

Mark du Cros is a former Director of DuCros Design with more than 30 years international experience in structural and civil engineering design. Mark joined Civille in 2022 and brings his extensive experience in structural engineering to provide design advice for a wide range of park and public domain structural engineering projects.