UPDATES

SGA INVITED BACK TO BUFFALO, MN, HIGH SCHOOL

SGA Group (SGA) principals Graham Sones and Robert Gunderson were invited to BHS Career Exploration Day, on November 18, 2024. This was the second year in a row that SGA has been asked and participated in this event. SGA presented career information on the profession of landscape architecture to two groups of students. Approximately 35…
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SGA INVITED TO BUFFALO, MN, HIGH SCHOOL

SGA Group (SGA) principals Graham Sones (pictured) and Robert Gunderson recently were invited speakers at the 2023 Buffalo, MN High School, ‘Fall Speaker & Career Fair Fest,’ held for students at the high school. This event took place on November 13, 2023, at the Buffalo High School. SGA presented career information on the profession of…
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GUNDERSON ELEVATED to ‘FELLOW’

Photo credit: ASLA/Korey Davis Photography Robert Gunderson (Bob), co-founder and principal of SGA Group, was recently elevated to ‘Fellow’ of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), at a special investiture ceremony during the annual Conference on Landscape Architecture, held this year in Minneapolis, MN, from October 27-30, 2023. Becoming a Fellow is one of…
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INVITED SPEAKER

Graham Sones, co-founder and principal of SGA Group, was recently featured as an invited speaker, at the 2023 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference on Landscape Architecture, held this year in Minneapolis, MN, from October 27-30, 2023. Graham is a member and leading proponent of the Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network (PPN), which is…
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2023 CLARB ANNUAL MEETING

SGA Group co-founder and principal Graham Sones (pictured far left in photo) attended the 2023 Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) Annual Meeting, in Henderson, NV, on September 20-22, 2023. He attended as a representative of the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID). This year’s meeting…
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2021 CLARB Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ

SGA Group co-founder Graham Sones attended the 2021 Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 22-24, 2021. Graham attended, in his capacity as a licensing board member. He is one of two landscape architect board members on the 21-member Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience…
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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SGA Group, Inc. Co-Founder Graham Sones appointed to Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID). BUFFALO, MINNESOTA (UNITED STATES) – September 28, 2020 – SGA Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that Graham Sones has recently joined the Minnesota Board of AELSLAGID, effective July 1,…
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2020 Professional Practice Course Presentation

On February 20, 2020 ― at the invitation of Adjunct Professor Cliff Swenson ― Mr. Gunderson gave a 2-hour presentation on professional licensing for the Professional Practice course, in the Dept. of Landscape Architecture, at the University of Minnesota. His presentation covered an introduction to the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture,…
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2020 Minneapolis Preservation Awards Celebration

SGA Group, Inc. co-founder, Graham Sones, at far right above (standing), participated in an awards celebration on February 27, 2020. The Minneapolis Parks Legacy Society (MPLS) and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) received a preservation award for the on-site interpretive tours of the historic Theodore Wirth House and Administration Building (1910 Colonial Revival, Mission…
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March 2020 CLARB Board Meeting

Mr. Gunderson is currently a Director-at-Large on the board of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), through 2020. He recently attended the quarterly CLARB Board of Directors (BOD) meeting in Nashville, TN, on March 6-7, 2020. His attendance at this meeting was “book-ended” by several traumatic events―violent tornadoes that struck down in the…
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