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Randy Royer replied to the topic Strange Question? in the forum RESEARCH 12 years, 1 month ago
The business side of Landscape Architecture! Contracts, insurance, HR, finance… All very important to a successful practice but also very time consuming.
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Randy Royer replied to the topic starting a design consulting firm in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 12 years, 2 months ago
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.
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Randy Royer replied to the topic Employee Incentives and Bonuses in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 13 years, 8 months ago
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]
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Randy Royer replied to the topic BIM in Landscape Architecture in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 15 years, 5 months ago
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.