Meadowbrook: A Family Community Built Around Green Space
Three hundred energy-efficient family homes, a school and parks on the edge of Atlanta.
- Client: Meadowbrook Homes (2020)
- Project Value: $88 Million
- Time to Completion: 28 months
- Location: Atlanta, 2020
- Project Type: Residential
- Project Size: 300 homes on 120 acres
Project Overview
Meadowbrook is a new residential community of 300 family homes on the outskirts of Atlanta, planned around parks, playgrounds and walking trails. The development offers a mix of townhouses and detached homes in several styles, together with a community centre, a primary school and a small village square with shops and a cafe. Every home includes high levels of insulation, efficient heat pumps and solar-ready roofs, while tree-lined streets, rain gardens and wildflower meadows keep the neighbourhood green. Safe, connected footpaths let children walk or cycle to school and to the parks.
Challenges
Meadowbrook was a large greenfield site that had to be developed in phases while the first families were already living there. New roads, drainage, utilities and the school had to be ready ahead of the homes, and heavy seasonal rainfall made earthworks difficult. The client wanted a consistent standard of quality across hundreds of homes built by multiple crews at once.
Solutions
Structo planned Meadowbrook as a community first and a construction site second. Infrastructure was built ahead of the homes, phases were carefully separated from occupied streets, and a single quality standard applied to every home, so that early residents enjoyed a safe, finished neighbourhood while building continued nearby.
Results
Meadowbrook was completed on time across all phases, and every home was sold or reserved before its phase finished. Families describe a strong sense of community, helped by the parks, the school and the village square. The homes use far less energy than the regional average, and the green infrastructure has handled every major storm since completion without flooding.
