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2. Landscape architecture - Wikipedia

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   Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. [ 2 ] It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for construction and human use, investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and ...

3. Landscape architect - Wikipedia

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   A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water management, sustainable design, construction specification, and ensuring that all plans meet the current ...

4. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of trades in construction. Boilermaker, works in nuclear, oil and gas industry, shipyards, refineries, and chemical plants, on boilers, pressure vessels, and similar equipment. Carpenter, a craftsperson who performs carpentry, building mainly with wood. [ 1 ] Among carpentry's subsidiary trades are those of cabinet maker ...

5. Landscape engineering - Wikipedia

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   Landscape engineering. A river with functional (flood preventing) engineering (in Houston, Texas) A canal design focused on esthetical landscape architecture (in Stockholm, Sweden) for comparison. Landscape engineering is the application of mathematics and science to shape land and waterscapes. It can also be described as green engineering, but ...

6. Grading (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, [ 1 ] for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a purpose are often ...

7. Site plan - Wikipedia

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   A plot plan. A site plan or a plot plan is a type of drawing used by architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers which shows existing and proposed conditions for a given area, typically a parcel of land which is to be modified. Sites plan typically show buildings, roads, sidewalks and paths/trails, parking, drainage ...

8. Landscape design - Wikipedia

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   Landscape design typically involves artistic composition and artisanship, horticultural finesse and expertise, and emphasis on detailed site involvement from conceptual stages through to final construction. Landscape architecture focuses more on urban planning, city and regional parks, civic and corporate landscapes, large scale ...

9. Kate Orff - Wikipedia

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   M.L.A., Harvard University, 1997 [1] Occupation. Landscape architect. Kate Orff (born 1971) is an American landscape architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is also the director the Urban Design Program (MSAUD) at Columbia University's Graduate ...