Del Sol Group
Noelle Sanders
Del Sol Group’s Principal and Environmental Director, Noelle Sanders, has over 10 years of environmental consulting expertise. After graduating from the University of Arizona in 1995, with a degree in Geosciences, Noelle began her career as an Environmental Technician in Tucson. Shortly after, she returned to Phoenix and became a Project Manager for a high-profile controversial project for ASARCO where Noelle quickly proved her abilities during one of the mining industry’s more difficult economic times. Motivated by her early success, Noelle worked as a Project Manager building her project experience and understanding of various environmental regulations.

After nearly six years of handling numerous successful projects, negotiations, and building relationships, Noelle’s career went into high gear. She polished her skills in the municipal sector, expanded her client base, analyzed environmental opportunities and made key business decisions. Noelle also developed an understanding of Landscape Architecture and worked to merge her knowledge of environmental regulations with the design of the outdoor environment. This unique perspective, along with her understanding of what it means to invest one’s own capital in a project, allows Noelle to consult her clients on the best available opportunities.

In 2006, Noelle’s passion and dedication to environmental consulting lead her to form Del Sol Group. As an Arizona native and an outdoor enthusiast, Del Sol Group reflects Noelle’s commitment to the environment and to improving the quality of life in Arizona.

 

Thaumas P. Ehr, RLA
Mr. Ehr has been practicing Landscape Architecture in the Southwest United States since 1980. He was raised in rural Southeastern Wisconsin and first visited the Southwest with his family in the early 1960’s. He attended the University of New Mexico and graduated with a degree in Biology and Chemistry anticipating a career in veterinary medicine in 1974. He entered the graduate school of Geology at the University of Oregon in 1977 and ultimately received a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture in 1980.

During his career he has worked in a number of environments in the Southwest: first in mountain resorts in Vail, Colorado and Snowbird, Utah, then the High Deserts around Moab, Utah, Santa Fe, New Mexico and West Texas and finally in the Mojave Desert in Clark County Nevada and Southern California. For the last few years, he worked with a close friend designing vineyard estates and wineries in Napa and Sonoma Counties in Northern California.

After living in these places in the Western States; the Sonoran Desert and his life long commitment to Arizona have made him refocus on this place where work and lifestyle are seamless.

Throughout his career he has worked to enhance the quality of life in this region by developing design solutions that respect connections to landscape, history, peoples and values which are distinctive to the region and to solve the problems that come with growth and new settlement patterns limited by water use.

Tom’s practice in the region is a commitment to making an already spectacular place remain that way and to build upon its natural evolution to become one of the most unusual parts of the world.