Land8: Landscape Architects Network

Great conversation and thoughts everybody.

For me I went straight to a design/build after graduation but that is because I wanted to go that direction. I also spent 3 summers in the field doing the labor prior to graduation. No experience with a design only firm.

Correct me if I’m wrong but in most cases I design only firm doesn’t begin to deal…[Read more]

Its the pathogens. Greywater is almost as bad as sewer water. Getting people sick in the name of LEED does not seem to be the way to go.

hai nice to join in this group

Tim, Jay, and others –

Just found this group, and am happy to see it exists. I am actually one of the Masters students you spoke about who is lacking direct landscape construction experience. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments, and see this as a huge problem. Do you have any suggestions on the best methods for acquiring this experience?…[Read more]

Does anyone have good method for doing evergreen shadows in photoshop with the drop shadow?

Potentially greywater could be treated in a bioswale or series of detention ponds, but in California, this system is impossible to permit (Does anyone know of any States who allow this?). However, you can treat stormwater in that method.

hey yall,

well labash is just a few months away and registration is currently up and running….hurry before december 31st to get an early bird registration rate. Also check out our website http://www.labash2010.com where you can find info and the schedule and events, travel and accommodations and much more. If you have any questions or concerns feel…[Read more]

how about grey water treating with wetlands/ aerobic system? there is need for open bond rite? instead using in sewage water treatment along with chemicals?

There are strict standards for greywater irrigation – it should not come in contact with people – therefore it is subsurface and also its application is dependent on soil percolation rate, meaning it should not pond to the surface. Not to say with all the rules it is not possible. More potable water is used irrigating landscapes than for basic…[Read more]

I always thought that greywater has too many pathogens to be safely used for irrigation anywhere people would come in contact with it. Not true?

Lista wątków z forum ZP. zapraszamy do uczestnictwa w dyskusjach. I mam nadzieję że forum Polskich Architektów Krajobrazu za które chwała M. Leśniewskiemu oraz nasze będą się uzupełniały.

W biurze – czyli wszystko o technikach projektowania i wspomagania pracy
Na budowie – czyli omawianie spraw dotyczących wykonawstwa i nadzorów
Na uczelni – czyli sprawy studenckie: wykłady, warsztaty, materiały do nauki…
Od środka – czyli sprawy stowarzyszeniowe
Praca / praktyki – ogłoszenia i komentarze
Technologie i materiały
Przetargi / konk…[Read more]

I na koniec! Na wyjeździe został poraz pierwszy ogłoszony wstępny program naszej konferencji marcowej. Odbędzie się ona w Sali Kryształowej SGGW. A jednym z głównych gości bedzie Pan Patrick Blanc- ten od wertykalnych. Ponoć dostał główną nagrodę The Timesa za swoje ogrody(jako zjawisko ostatniej dekady)albo jakos podobnie. Pojawią się tak…[Read more]

drugi panel dotyczył opracowania zakresu pakietowego ubezpieczenia zawodowego dla AK oraz odzielnego pakietu dla wkonawcow. Udało się stworzyć zarys obszaru ubezpieczenia. Zamierzamy powędrowąć z nim teraz do ubezpieczycieli tak aby zawodowy byli w stanie z tego cos stworzyć i zaproponowac ile to może kosztować.
Informacje o zakresie naszego o…[Read more]

Witam
W Kazimierzu Dolnym 20 osobowa grupa ak, wykonawców i studentów ak z ZP omawiała w dyskusjach panelowych problematykę zawodowych praktyk studenckich. Dzięki temu że mieliśmy mozliwoś spojrznia na temat z różnych punktów widzenia udało się stworzyć ramowy schemat organizacji praktyk zaodowych organizowanych w ramach działan ZP. Więcej szczegó…[Read more]

Ciao Gian, i bi an ausland schwyzer (2 generation vom Berner Oberland) u moechte ou joine! Good luck with your job search in the great down under…..Claudia

I just started working at a new firm, Rana Creek. The first LEED project I am working on is a large scale neighborhood renovation project that will capture greywater from showers & laundry for a for landscape irrigation. It turns out from our initial calculations, all the homes intended for water harvesting collected too much water, so we needed…[Read more]

Gratuluje czlonkostwa! Rewelacja.

Well said Mark, our proffesion is so variable that it makes it easy for others to put us in a box on one side of it which I find to be simply ‘lanscaping’. We need to work together as a profession to be “armed with facts and calculations” to give creditability to the profession across the board.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This issue is complicated and to say that rain gardens are the answer is not much different than the traditional infrastructure approach, where one solution can solve all problems. In most instances and geographic locations, the solution needs to include water quality and quantity solutions to solve the problem. Rain gardens, bio-swales and…[Read more]