Land8: Landscape Architects Network

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]

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]

Just a thought from Soil Science perspective on reducing the water requirements for any plant. Use lots of organic material and or peat moss around the plant,(not too much) and surround other areas with sand. Make sure the drip is going on the water holding material. Sand has the lowest affinity for water while clay has the highest and organic…[Read more]

is there a study group preparing for the March A B and D Sections? LETS HAVE AT IT>

Charles,

“Blame it on the Rain” – Milli Vanilli

Well, not really. I just wanted to quote them! Policy is a difficult thing. Until every land owner is charged by the city for the real cost of thier stormwater impacts from a pre development hydrology, there will be uncecesary systems put ini place.
The cool thing about rain gardens is that for…[Read more]

Cole

Good comments. It is annoying to listen to disciples of the “new” green movement who lack the understanding necessary to design facilities that actually work and can be maintained (sustained). Even here in the NW we have LID facilities being required in locations where they just will not work.

Robin, not to be a sceptic: I have recently moved to hawaii though spent the last 5 years in the califonia working for a large engineering firm. It is difficult to get buy in from the engineers as the systems are simply not as functional there as they are in the NW. The reason for this is that the NW has rain year round whereas cali has no rain…[Read more]

James Richards is great. I love his simple color palette. He blends darker colors in his lighter colors to make things look cohesive. For instance, he used carmine red and true blue (i think it was true blue) prismacolor color pencils over cream to create this really nice effect. So, the cream hardscape and buildings really popped after i tried to…[Read more]

….and a nicely planted raingarden, or artful rainwater catchment system usually looks better, provided it works correctly, than the typical curb and gutter system. I have found that the client is usally into this aspect of LID. In residential applications, is it wonderful if they take ownership of the process and work to make regulatory change…[Read more]

I have found that it is best to be part of the design process early on, integrating bmp and lid strategies into the program. Working with the engineers can often open up more opportunities and gain momentum to make green strategies more tangible to designers, since we can explain the simplicity and practicality of these strategies. In most cases,…[Read more]

Great website–thanks for pointing it out. Living in Seattle, I have visited many of the listed projects, urban and rural, but many more are coming on board. In 2010 some Seattle homeowners will receive $$ rebates for installing rain gardens and cisterns to reduce CSO into Puget Sound and Lake Union. read more: http://www.seattle.gov/util/rainwise