https://land8.com/members/douglasm-rooney/activity/ Activity feed for Douglas M. Rooney. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:15:39 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 284baee2e8f545bf0b45c061f530dee4 https://land8.com/forums/topic/comedy-sitcom/#post-159152 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:44:34 +0000 Love the photo where you see in the background the old-fashioned drafting board complete with a T-square and circle template. I guess that portraying the way we worked 30 years ago is more “romantic”. At least they don’t have him driving around in his truck with his “mow-n-blow” equipment.

]]> 0 6e25a7dcbe5968e2ffb6ed7fc0f9afc5 https://land8.com/forums/topic/wage-in-sf-for-contract-design-work/#post-160155 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:18:50 +0000 Take your former salary and reduce it to an hourly rate. Take hourly rate X 1.35 = contract hourly rate( then round up to the nearest $5. Example, if contract hourly billing rate comes to $27.75, round up to $30 per hour). Thirty-five percent is a fair approximation of the value of benefits plus self employment tax. I would not use your former…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dd18691efdacc1fc7537f708496d1e2 https://land8.com/forums/topic/we-need-some-new-blood/#post-160222 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:02:15 +0000 I was an organizer for PARK(ing)Day in San Francisco in 2009. Myself and a group of  other unemployed design professionals, designed, constructed, and operated a 3 hole miniature golf course for the day. It was a lot of fun and kept us busy during a very difficult year. I even managed to make it onto Weekend Edition on NPR for my 8 seconds of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4f87d4c05583c330f6254507e82db52 https://land8.com/forums/topic/some-questions-from-a-high-school-senior/#post-160840 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:30:06 +0000 Jason, I do not think your statement that you must have Masters degree to become a licensed Architect is correct. The 5 year BArch degree(most commonly found at public state universities) is an accredited professional degree that NCARB accepts for their education requirement. Some states including your state of Maryland do not even require an…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9a8c33b00f3ef7cfd2cce7d24a84f84 https://land8.com/forums/topic/has-anyone-here-exited-the-landscape-architecture-industry/page/4/#post-161280 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:55:16 +0000 What happened to the DOUR photo?? I so enjoyed “bitter Jason”…..

]]> 0 910da23f3b6a729bce8c51cc75fd238d https://land8.com/forums/topic/has-anyone-here-exited-the-landscape-architecture-industry/page/4/#post-161282 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:45:48 +0000 Jason….I was just joking….I agree with you that safety is an illusion..I was just trying for some levity in an otherwise dour discussion.

]]> 0 3d1b10b8f23006aa09efc1c458bece6b https://land8.com/forums/topic/has-anyone-here-exited-the-landscape-architecture-industry/page/5/#post-161298 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:45:48 +0000 Au contraire Jason, have you not heard of the certainty of Death and Taxes????
Mortician and tax accountant must therefore “be safe”.

]]> 0 b9aa06bdc9eaca7239254df496eaf1be https://land8.com/forums/topic/changes-to-the-lare-exam-coming-2012-all-computerized-and-only-4-sections/page/4/#post-161490 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:48:02 +0000 MLCC, that is not how I read CLARB’s transition plan. If you only have section E left to go and you do not pass it before the new exam starts, then you will get credit for Sections 1, 2, and 3, but will have to take section 4 which costs more and repeats part of section D. You will not have to take section 3 as previously passing section C and D…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7cd17ad871d95c1d4b7bdfe5ee56c8d https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-of-coop-himmelblaus-hs-no-9-school-in-l-a-metropolis-magazine-julyaugust-2011-issue/#post-161422 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:17:48 +0000 Obviously that student has never been in a correctional facility. There are too many windows and no barbed wire. I think alien spacecraft meets nuclear power plant is a more fitting description.

]]> 0 29491b0112af34be5304af324607b742 https://land8.com/forums/topic/anybody-get-a-bulk-discount-on-prozac/#post-161679 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:58:48 +0000 And to prove Nick’s point….here is a gem from SF Bay Area Craiglist today looking for an AutoCAD drafter for an Architect:
Drafter 3-5 years experience in Autocad (SOMA / south beach)
MWA Architects is looking for a drafter with 3-5 years experience. This position is for a recent graduate, and we will not be looking a resumes with more than 5…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddd7ab879955095bb7cd355a288aa65a https://land8.com/forums/topic/anybody-get-a-bulk-discount-on-prozac/#post-161683 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:37:39 +0000 You are dead on in your analysis Andrew. Most firms I know currently have a “barbell” structure. They are composed of the partners and the junior production staff. Everyone at the firm has less than 5 years experience or more than 20 years. Middle management need not apply. I still think it is quite hard for young people coming out of school to…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c2ffb76925fcbca8a5b7cc0b0684432 https://land8.com/forums/topic/bad-font-decisions-yes-im-talking-to-you-papyrus-users/page/4/#post-162138 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:05:46 +0000 Alex,
I really must congratulate you. Not everyone could generate nearly 100 posts on a topic like fonts, but you have…..Bravo.
First let me state I do not now, nor have I ever used Papyrus. I actually had to look it up to see what it looked like, because I had no idea. Not the type of font I am likely to use since it has a “visual onomatopoeia”…[Read more]

]]> 0 6159a2dd50a28d9a81580b31b8ae8abf http://land8.com/forums/topic/where-are-obamas-green-jobs/page/8/#post-162030 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:19:45 +0000 I have solved the riddle….. 225,000 jobs were saved because (thanks to the government bailout) GM is still in business, and now that they make an electric car (Chevy Volt), all of those jobs are now counted as GREEN. Jobs created? ZERO

]]> 0 cca351c68579b847c88ebc5590bcf4a3 http://land8.com/forums/topic/p2c/#post-162389 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:03:55 +0000 He is looking for a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (UK version of ASLA) to mentor him on his “Path to Chartership” (P2C). I blame this on texting…people are now speaking in acronyms.

]]> 0 b57eb014e3e5590a5974f900b89e967a https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-to-call-yourself-or-i-like-poking-sleeping-bears-with-sticks/page/2/#post-162655 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:35:02 +0000 So when you say you have been a Landscape Architect for 28 years, you mean you have been licensed for that long, right? Or was there a “rouge unregistered period” in there?

]]> 0 06e3ef120eac063aaa425872c1f6891f https://land8.com/forums/topic/is-advertising-for-las-still-considered-unethical/page/4/#post-162807 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:37:29 +0000 I am not sure what the history on the ethics for LAs has been, but I did read once that the AIA had made advertising for Architects an ethics violation starting in 1909, however by the late 1970s that was no longer true. I do know that the ASLA code states:
R1.106  Members shall not mislead through advertising or other means existing or…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec5c5efa5a0f167748c2b5cca7a96325 https://land8.com/forums/topic/more-ways-to-make/#post-162848 Sun, 22 May 2011 18:23:25 +0000 Heather, I am very interested to hear more about how you developed your business. I know you have said your husband is licensed as a Landscape Architect, but does he have a contractors license as well? I have always been very interested in doing design/build, but here in California you need to be a licensed landscape contractor to do that. In…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b57109df7598343e2da81b74e54619f https://land8.com/forums/topic/non-rlas-using-the-title-landscape-architect/page/4/#post-163333 Fri, 20 May 2011 19:51:55 +0000 Alan you are killing me…….that is even funnier than Jon’s fake phone call.

]]> 0 ef1b105248e90a6a342880fb8ca4dada https://land8.com/forums/topic/if-you-are-not-a-registered-la-why-havent-you-gotten-the-stamp/#post-162873 Fri, 20 May 2011 19:41:36 +0000 I just got my license last week. My route to RLA was rather circuitous. My degree is in Architecture. I worked in that profession for 6 years out of grad school. I never got my Architect’s license because I listened to bad advice that I “would never need it, I would always work for someone with a stamp, and it was a huge waste of time and money”.…[Read more]

]]> 0 29d202599f4a0a448c7a5597a973e71d https://land8.com/forums/topic/any-great-tips-on-the-exam-section-c/#post-162967 Thu, 19 May 2011 16:14:16 +0000 For those that forget their 11×17 sheet, there is another way to deal with the vellum issue, assuming that you are working on a white or light colored surface( I recommend that everyone bring some sort of board to draft on because the tables at some test centers are not good surfaces to draw on). You can “think outside the book” by taping down…[Read more]

]]> 0 63772a0d6f6fd02cbf39f4eeed5fc366 https://land8.com/forums/topic/any-great-tips-on-the-exam-section-c/#post-162972 Wed, 18 May 2011 20:31:26 +0000 TEMPLATES…..lay down a sheet of trace over your vignette. Take a sheet of stiff vellum and trace the design components. This includes generic parking lot blocks that you need to create. Use these “puzzle pieces” to try out different arrangements. When you have your final design, tape them to the trace and then move the trace under your vignette…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7362664755f91f8cdc20f4ff9e8212b https://land8.com/forums/topic/advice-for-a-beginner-in-us/#post-164154 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:23:46 +0000 Lens T,
You should realize that the poor economy in the US is going to make finding a position very hard for you. Demand is very low for landscape architects right now. I have seen an increase in opportunities in the last 2 months, but there are many unemployed landscape architects in the US. Texas seems to have the best economy, followed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f8819b6b71457419953d4cbef0423db https://land8.com/forums/topic/buffalo-grass-on-a-green-roof/#post-164519 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:20:49 +0000 Sara….I have no personal experience with buffalo grass but be aware that it is a warm season grass that goes dormant in the winter. Depending upon your climate, your “green” roof may be “beige” for much of the year. Not a problem for a place with seasons, but in parts of the sun belt where some people expect plants that are green and blooming…[Read more]

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