Andrew Spiering

Hi everyone, i’m the new kid on the block from SA.

Wow, 97 members-strong!

I’ll actaully be in the San Fran office for LID Training, so I will not be able to make it to Philly. Please let us know how it was when you guys get back.

I’ll be there… not at EDAW anymore but hopefully just between EDAW jobs. Ha Ha. I assume Alan Harwood from the Alexandria office will be there since he’s giving a presentation on Sunday of the National Capital Framework Plan. Super excited to see how that is going after all my blood, sweat and tears went into it.

I’ll be in Philly for ASLA. I know several including Bill Vitek, Dennis Carmichael, Tim DeLorm and Donna Walcavage will be there at least for the Fellow dinner Sat night.. I’m not aware of anyone else from my office (Denver) that is going.. Anybody else going? At past meetings we’ve tried to connect. Any thoughts on that?

Anyone else going?

Jeff,

How do you set up your perspective vantage point? What are the steps involved in setting up and roughing out your perspective renderings?

I want to know how to reach the ultra affluent residential clients in Shanghai, Beijing, and Dubai Any advice?

How do I recruit ridiculously creative landscape graphic artists for perspective drawings and collateral presentation documents?

How do I write secure contracts and payments when working over seas to assure payment? Is this a take a…[Read more]

Brandon – Give me some topices to cover and I’d be glad to help in any way.

Hey Mack,
Great questions! Feel free to add them to the group forum. Just click the little green plus sign…

Mack,
I think Errors and Omissions Insurance is usually a policy that the firm keeps on itself, you may change Insurance companies from time to time but the insurance is usually constant. I don’t believe it is available on a job by job basis.
helpful link:
http://www.nfib.com/object/3789933.html

This is the key quote which may speak to your…[Read more]

Charrette sponsored by Landscape Forms, managed to gather the brigthest up and coming young landscape architects in the nation to a three day charrette for the City of New Buffalo. The group was devided into three teams, each team lead by three leading landscape archietcs. At the end we presented our solutions and recommendations to members of the…[Read more]

One more question….E&O is this something needed forever? If I do a job today do I have to carry it till I die or is there a statute of limitations?
Can it be obtained on a month to month or by job basis?

I wanted to add a comment/question.
I have seen serveral diffrent ways to approch contracts and proposals. One way is keep it very simple, the other it to complicate it to the point of needed a harvard law degree to understand the contract.
The questing I have is where is the middle ground? I don’t want to be too simple, miss something and then be…[Read more]

hi brent – sketches i will do directly onto watercolor paper. but more complex drawings can be done on vellum or trace, scanned and then printed onto even very heavy wc paper using the (awesome!)epson 3800 printer – amazing – looks just like an original pencil drawing…

Good to be here!

Great idea for a group! Can you tell us more about the charrette?

Brandon…
Thanks for creating this group. For anyone that will be attending the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philly, I will be moderating two roundtable discussions regarding topics revelant to this group.
The first roundtable is Best Business Practices and Client relations in the Residential Market. It is scheduled for Monday, October 6 at 9:45 a.m.…[Read more]

Hi Business Group people,
looking forward to your comments, especially from more experienced colleagues. I graduated 2 months ago, business is still waiting for me.

Greetings from Sarajevo

Great idea for a group, Brandon!

How much do you charge for landscape concepts? This question is for everyone!