Roles in the industry explained
It is Ask
crucial to state th the
at South Africa is no professionals
t delivering enough Landscape designers, credible Landscape
Installers and Landscape Architects. In this article the Irene School of Garden Design briefly demystifies, in
layman's terms what all this means, as well as indicate ways of getting there.
The Landscape Designer:
Landscape designers are generally more involved
with residential works and refurbishments of
gardens and small to medium sized landscapes. This
would involve the design of a garden spatially or
otherwise stated architecturally, to accommodate
the needs of the client as well as address the ecology,
the site and locality of the project. Secondly the
landscape designer must fulfil a decorative role after
the functionality of a garden has been sorted out to
fill the beds with planting design, hard landscaping
features and furniture. The deliverables are usually
design plans, planting plans, three dimensional
exploration, mood boards and illustrative palettes,
bills of quantity, cost estimation and construction
specification.
19 Articleby:LeeBurger

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