Another thing to remember is that you do not have to pay the additional fee on each section of the test. $37 per section. This can add up if you find yourself having to take the sections multiple times. But I guess the question is. . . Is saving $370 (each test twice) worth the fees that come later, through renewal and all the other add-on fees.
100_0076.jpgOh dear this is a real can of worms. 13 agencies can dig my town’s roads and pavements and verges with council permission and each agency could employ loads of different contractors. No-one talks to anyone else and get them to work in a hole while it is open and the council does not correlate activities. Roads are invariably patchwork quilts even when road surfaces are not being tried out in sections or there are traffic statistic facilities, e.g. pressure pads stapled across roads at certain points. Watercourses, natural or otherwise, are constantly subject to breaking, flooding, leaking, etc. and most need replacing. Soil types can affect this as, for example, clay dessicates in a drought. Overall, this affects possible tree survival as well as root attack on utility installations and homes. Other problems to consider include line of sight for CCTV cameras and road users as well as safety, e.g. acorns can be fired like bullets by a car tyre clipping it – so you have to plant wisely. All that said, remember that huge trees can be planted/moved to false beds and containers, e.g. over an underground car park. (We also have a road bridge here with a tree filled park on top.) Roots need not leak but irrigation, where appropriate, is easy to arrange. On that basis you can plant an oak tree between a fire hydrant, manhole cover and electricity sub station. You need to have a plan, some intentions, lots of site visits with authority people and a firm planting schedule and accurate activity record in spreadsheet diary form. (Excel?). Authorities and/or their contractors when outsourced usually have their own version to begin with that will need extending. You need a copy and/or access to their system. Ground radar and resistivity equipment can be useful where authorities do not know what is under an area, which is often. Actual excavation should also be in association with local archeologists and local amateur groups (history, archeology, wildlife, metal detectorists) may also be involved and perform survey services free to ensure nothing bad is done.
I wish to add that it has become de rigeur for tv cabling activity to spend ages working round tree roots, down an avenue for example, at enormous expense, to avoid protestors’ wrath. It can be cheaper to prop the tree, add a lightning conductor even, cut a root (which can be as thick as a man) then feed the trees and water them until recovered. Such companies may also pay to add more trees when they are finished according to the plan for the area. Digging can then be faster and mechanical.
Luv n Lite
Les Ballard
To the left of the attached picture is the main road and, to the right of the river, a footpath. The central building straddling the river had a family living in it once but is now a souvenir shop. Though “busy” for planting local residents, expecially, in houses to the right, can add to their front gardens to make it a prettier view and soften features. The picture above, however, is the backs of the houses nearby where the river flows and nature has taken over to some extent. With space at a premium tourist money is so imprtant that a little could be spent actually planting flowers along the banks to look pretty from the bridge the photo as taken from. Residents have little or no access and so will have less interest in beautification here.
Perhaps instead of the $1600 for a CAD specific course, I might take a basic drafting or garden design course and get your feet wet with cad on your own as others have said.
Basic hand drafting courses will teach you about lineweight and graphic standards. The other cool thing that I believe helped me alot was learning how to manually draft sections, elevations, and isometrics.
I was wondering if anyone else took sections C or E of the LARE this past june. I was wondering if anyone knew when the scores would be posted. Please let me know if you know. Thanks.
I am feeling a bit embarrassed about the number of replies I am making but, on this topic, I have to say that I am really aware of geographical and cultural differences. Nevertheless, there are so many book titles from the past like Your Veg garden thru the Year and so on I feel sure there must be some available, wherever people are, from 2nd hand shops. Dating back to the 50’s and 60’s – in Britain – and often still quoting banned chemicals the basics are all there.
I would like to say that there are fads in gardening and moves relating to smaller home gardens. Science also reacts to need and so there are now great tomato plants for hanging baskets. Anyway, the skinny is (prepare smelling salts for the aged) you can plant veg. with cash crops between and still grow flowers, over or between those. It is even possible to plant, in spring, autumn flowering bulbs, mark their positions and tween plant veg. which, by then, you will have harvested. Finally, ever since someone popularised the great truth that carrot fly do not attack beds over 18″ high, raised beds have become more popular. Sleepers (not as cheap as they used to be), old telegraph poles and the like secured to the ground and each other can also be rustic, blend in well with surroundings and make a raised bed suitable for gardening from a wheelchair by, for example, old folks home residents. Beds can also punctuate parking spaces. Gardening at school, from age 3 upwards, is also catching on and ground level, as well as raised beds, can aid both variety of view / shelter for tender species and practical teaching opportunities. If anyone is interested I will be pleased to discuss anything in more detail.
In respect of internet sites contact the social sections of local authorities and see who is doing what for whom, probably at a charitable level, including attacking the property of those who will pay with a bunch of trained special needs people to make something neat out of a wilderness for some remuneration. Church groups (don’t just think Christian) may also have folk prepared to donate time and effort to clean up an area and/or keeping garden areas tidy where residents cannot. All such groups will have websites where a lot can be learned.
Luv n Lite
Les Ballard
oh dear it’s another long one – dang
There is one by Morrison Media, it is more of a book of definitions, but believe it or not it was the most influential for me passing the multiple choice sections, and study Business Law for Landscape Architects, Section A is almost the book directly.
I would go to a LARE Review for C & E, you usually get alot of practice problems.
Lastly try the PPI books, they are good to test yourself and see how prepared you might be.
Hello All,
I am working on putting together all the images for a new basic textbook in landscape architecture to be entitled “The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture”. This will be published by AVA Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland. It will have distribution in Europe through Thames and Hudson and in the United States through Watson Guptill. It will be translated and copublished in the future in several other countries. The book will be published in April of next year.
I am in need of a great variety of images for the book, especially to illustrate the chapters on representation and design development. I would be grateful to receive your work to include in the book – everything from sketches to computer modelling, models, storyboards, film and video stills, axonometrics, plans and sections, and so on.
The book has quite a tight budget, and thus I am not able to offer any payment other than the satisfaction of seeing your work in print (and credited) and the bit of exposure it might offer.
I can also not guarantee that the work will be published if submitted. I need to spend the next week or two looking through work to decide what will fit best with the content. All images will require a contract, which I will send upon the selection of images for the book.
I am on quite a tight schedule, so I would appreciate receiving the work as soon as possible.
If you are interested, please send thumbnails of the images to me at tim.waterman@gmail.com along with a brief description. Otherwise, and perhaps best for all concerned, would be for the work to be uploaded to land8lounge so everyone can see!
I look forward to seeing your work!
Best wishes,
Tim Waterman
