Randy Royer

The business side of Landscape Architecture!  Contracts, insurance, HR, finance…  All very important to a successful practice but also very time consuming. 

You should have at least a letter agreement for each project stating the scope of work and fee structure.  Your professional liability insurer will want to to have a formal contract with a number of CYA clauses in it…  You leave yourself ‘exposed’ without any type of agreement.

All good thoughts. I appreciate the comments from the employee side of the table but I am also interested in input from the employer side as well.  Meaning – How are bonuses determined?  As a percentage of profit made for each project?  Or of the overall profitability of the company?  How often? (quarterly, biannually, annually?)  What has prov…[Read more]

Thanks for the reply. I read the ASLA paper and thought the same thing. I am interested in how to actually make it work…

We are a multi-discipline firm (Arch and LA). The Architects are are getting into it and I think we need to be able to integrate better with them. They are using Revit. I will look into Rhino.