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 proven to be fair and equitable and keep employees motivated to do their best work? I know some engineering firms that are very formulaic in their incentive programs.
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.
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