Andrew Garulay, RLA

I found that i did not like some of the very subtle ways that Bricscad behaved differently than Acad in how it handled things that did not work with my habits. This goes back two or three years, but I particularly did not like how I could not control survet points that were in existing drawings. There were a few other things that had to do with…[Read more]

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Note: Interview performance is nothing until or unless you get an interview.

The biggest thing that gets you ahead is work experience – the chicken and the egg. Autocad is more often listed as a requirement than not (never seen a requirement for 2010, but often see Land Desk Top listed as prefered). Hand graphics are listed as a requirement at least 1/3 of the time. I more often see other programs such as sketchup, r…[Read more]

I don’t see the criteria of a non accredited school and five years in an engineering office meeting either Minnesota or CLARB standards. I attached the links, if you want to help me out on this.  Not to beat a dead horse, but it does not even look…[Read more]

The fact still remains that he did not go to an LAAB accredited school and has not interned under a licensed LA at all.
 
I think MN rules are excessive, but I don’t think that any state is going to accept a degree from an unaccredited school and only experience in an engineering office. Some will not require any internship, but will require the…[Read more]

I believe that I might find it discomforting to be sitting there and then have a stranger sit on the other side because we’d be almost face to face. At least with a conventional bench you’re not forced to engage the person sitting next to you.
I don’t want to be on a love seat with some dude at a bus stop.

I’d find a home pretty quick if I had to sleep on that bench.   … another example of landscape design elements reshaping society for the better!   

Part of not seeing this coming might be because you did not go to a LAAB accredited school and were left in the dark about the licensing process. I went to a small accredited program out in the sticks and we were absolutely well briefed on internship and licensing standards in the nation despite the fact that the state that it was in did not…[Read more]

I think it was designed to make homeless people go home!

It will be great once they get all the flower pots on it and put some seating around it.

Any detail that you have which addresses a unique situation should have the plan view showing that this is not just a typical cut and paste detail drawing. Anytime you can demonstrate knowledge as well as a drawing skill the opportunity should not be missed. Face it, any landscape architect student ought to know how to draft a detail, but not all…[Read more]

I don’t see the “coffee shop” model taking over. It is always individual freelance landscape architects, small regional firms, big national/international firms , and multi-discipline office staff. In different economic circumstances you have a higher percentage of this one or that, but you always have all of them because there is always a need for…[Read more]

If it is electronic and you can shuffle and re-form it easily (edit), customize it for the position that you are going for. If there is a job description, balance the content toward that job description, but include a little of everything else. If there is no job description, look at the company web page and try to weight it toward what they…[Read more]

I don’t understand this. You know you put part of it where it was not supposed to go. Some of the other examples that have been given by the people who think that they got graded too harshly seem to know what they did wrong, but don’t think they should fail for some reason.

It either does or it doesn’t. conform to the requirements. All you have…[Read more]

That is a bit of work as a retro-fix, but it really is not too bad for future work. Have you looked at permlok or other manufactured metal edging? It sounds like you are using plain steel strips with hooked stkes to hold them. I’d expect that they will be all over the place between summer heat and freeze/thaw.How has this faired over the years…[Read more]

You are losing me Melanie. Is it the rounded “U-shaped” stakes that are posing the hazard or the right angle at the top end of the steel?

How low is the budget that you can’t take a few minutes to grind the corner down? If it is that low, you really do need to seek an alternative material because the safety issue has to come first.

Someone mentioned retooling and restaffing in a down economy makes good business sense. I’m not sure how that relates in a big way to landscape architecture. We don’t make products or parts that we can invest in now and sell later.

The beauty and the beast in our lives is that most everything is done in real time. It is a beauty because as soon…[Read more]

How are you connecting the steel? Are you overlapping it to allow for expansion and reduction for heat or are you solidly connecting?

If you are overlapping, you could cut a 2 or 3″ radius on the upper corners of both strips and grind the edges so that there is no point or cut edge when they move.

I either had them welded or used manufatured…[Read more]

We just had a free engineering intern over the summer. The only thing that we could give him for work was to send him out as part of a survey crew.

Everyone thinks that you’d be stupid not to take free help. I can tell you that I saw a totally different side of that. You can’t just give an inexperienced person work and expect them to get it done.…[Read more]