https://land8.com/members/ericmcquistonrla/activity/ Activity feed for Eric McQuiston, RLA. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e9aaba55b4003c005be8ad33a28f1cc4 https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-is-value-proposition-for-landscape-architects/#post-158316 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:21:28 +0000 I have not posted in Land8 in some time but I found this to be of some interest to me. I think that what our Slovenian friend,  aaVlaDoR, is asking about is the business concept of ‘Perceived value’.
I agree wholeheartedly with Andrew and others with one exception. I think the emphasis in this thread has been assigned to how we as practitioners…[Read more]

]]> 0 23c3f994fefce6442328e528c3ffd4b3 https://land8.com/forums/topic/design-fee/#post-160400 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:52:20 +0000 This is an interesting and important question. I too have looked for some kind of standardized fee schedule for landscape architectural work and found very little. Architects typically charge a fee of around 7-15% of the construction budget. Sometimes this is a sliding fee; Lower dollar budgets have a higher percentage and higher budgets have an…[Read more]

]]> 0 95255b0448af1e2928d3923742b2c60c https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/#post-160492 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:26:21 +0000 I just finished reading this entire thread and, wow, talk about a ‘hot button’! It seems to me there are a couple of issues weaving through this. The first being Architects muscling in on our turf. And, second, who is the better designer. I agree with Dennis that we must all become better ambassadors of our profession. While practicing in…[Read more]

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