Landscape Architect Jobs
Executive summary about Landscape Architecture Jobs by Alex Newman
We all enjoy beautiful parks,
playgrounds, and golf courses, and a landscape architect is responsible for
making sure that areas are beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. A growing area
of work for landscape architects is to plan the restoration of natural habitats
such as wetlands which have been damaged by human activity over the past
hundred years.
Landscape architects will work for a
number of organizations which can range from real estate developers to airports
or government parks. These professionals will usually liaison with other
architects and surveyors in order to design the best landscape for roads and
buildings, and they will collaborate with foresters and environmental
scientists in order to conserve natural resources.
Landscape architects will often use
computer aided design in order to create a plan, and they will then present
this project to their clients in order to have it approved.
After approval of the project, a
they will begin hiring contractors to implement the landscaping design, who
will then begin the installation and the planting for the design
implementation. Landscape architects may specialize in a particular area of
work, which can include reclaiming mines or governments superfund sites.
Most of these individuals will spend
about 40 hours a week working, with most of their job spent conducting on site
research and doing cost estimation for their projects. Landscape architects
must be licensed in the state in which they are practicing and job requirements
will vary depending on their location. It is common for these professionals to
need to pass the Landscape Architect Registration Exam, in addition to having a
bachelors degree and necessary work experience.
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