Professional Practice for Landscape Architects [Paperback]

"The revised Professional Practice for Landscape Architects provides excellent guidance for any landscape architect on the Pathway to Chartership and is a useful tool for chartered practitioners wanting to refresh their knowledge on contracts, planning or practice law."
Landscape Institute

This book, organised in an extremely-user friendly manner, equips the landscape architect with all of the required knowledge in business and law. It is of great value to Landscape architects throughout their academic and professional life.

Landscape architecture students will find this book vital to their education and it will also be useful for landscape students on non-professional programmes who wish to understand the regulatory and planning backgrounds to their studies and for students on technical-type landscape programmes.

It is compulsory reading for everyone preparing for the new Pathway to Chartership examination. Not only will it help you pass the exam but you will, along with the thousands of fully-qualified landscape architects in the UK, find it an extremely time-saving reference in your busy working lives.

* Highly recommended by the Landscape Institute as preparation for the compulsory Pathway to Chartership
* Helps readers to build an understanding of the legal and commercial environment of landscape architecture in the UK
* Updated to include new legislation and current practice

Collected into one volume are all the relevant but diverse legal, business and practical contract management themes of the Professional Practice examination. Valuable information is presented in easy to follow line diagrams and flow charts.Topics covered include Landscape Practice, Liability and the Law, Planning Legislation, Environmental Legislation, Tendering and Contract Administration.The contents of the book reflect the author team's understanding of the working environment of landscape architecture and their experience of communicating that knowledge to their profession. Relevant in the UK and in all countries in the commonwealth which practice under UK rules --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Nicola Garmory went into partnership with Rachel Tennant in 1994. She qualified as an Associate of the Landscape Institute in 1996 and has taught a series of professional practice seminars since 1987.

Clare Winsch practised in local government. She has obtained qualifications to practice landscape maintenance and preparation for CCT. She manages a course on horticultural education.