Menno Klapwijk

Director of Bapela Cave Klapwijk Landscape Architects and Environmental Planners

Fellow member of the Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa

Professional Landscape Architect registered with the South African Council for Landscape Architectural Practitioners (SACLAP).

Menno is a founding and principal member of Bapela Cave Klapwijk, landscape architects and environmental planners, established in 1989 and based in Pretoria, South Africa. He previously served on the City of Tshwane’s aesthetics committee representing the landscape architecture industry. He has served as a committee member of the Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa (ILASA) as well as serving on the Board of Control for Landscape Architects (BOCLASA) and the South African Council for Landscape Architectural Professionals (SACLAP). He is a member of the International Association of Impact Assessors (SA). He is a former council member of the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) where he was chairperson of the Education and Research Committee. He was an external examiner for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pretoria from 1986 to 2016. He has more than 100 publications and reports dealing mostly with environmental planning, environmental rehabilitations and control specification, environmental impact assessment and visual impact assessment. He specialises in Visual Impact Assessment. He had assisted in the drafting of ‘A Guideline for Involving Visual and Aesthetic Specialists in EIA Processes’ and has been a peer reviewer of several VIA reports.