Posts in category: RIBA WorkStages

We use industry standard CAD and BIM to collaborate and coordinate design data with architects, engineers, cost consultants, ecologists and others, to deliver on the vision and narrative with consistency and rigour. 

Typical deliverables include: 

• “Full” or “design intent” drawings and specification packages
• Materials and planting schedules
• Specialist designer / fabricator briefing
  
• 2D (dwg) drawing and/or
• 3D (rvt) model data
• Establishment period maintenance specifications
• Long-term management and maintenance specifications

We can prepare a landscape and public realm briefing to determine project outcomes, for quality, sustainability, management and place-making. These agreed goals will help fix the “essential” project requirements, and the “nice-to-haves”.

We will always align your project outcomes closely to Planning Policy, to promote smooth passage through the Planning system. Our regenerative approach to landscape will establish optimal outcomes for Urban Greening Factor, Biodiversity Net Gain and other planning requirements.

We will identify the landscape requirements specific to your project, covering aspects such as Play Strategy, Sports provision, access to nature, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, equitable access and safe routes to schools.

We will review the available site information, and advise on surveys, and further information required. We can write specifications for topographic and arboricultural surveys, and help determine the need for ecologists and other consultants.

We will agree the landscape “deliverables” you need to achieve the outcomes we identify, to suit your budget and programme.

Aligned to the agreed Project Brief, we can develop the Concept Design to incorporate the strategic opportunities and constraints, to consider:

Place-making and narrative:

• We search for the unique qualities inherent in every ‘site’ we turn into a ‘place’.
• We analyse your vision (and ours) to see how far they can be realised, and how to go about it.
• We establish place-making narrative through research and dialogue.
• We retain this narrative to guide consistency from start to finish.
• We draw, we illustrate and we visualise.

Conceptual Design:

• Our design concepts makes places function more holistically, and make communities happier.
• We are regenerative and creative… and dedicated to pragmatism.
• Our approach brings consistency, richness, life and meaning to place-making.

Holding Text

Our aim is to get our work built. We work with contractors, architects and developers to oversee works progress, monitor quality, assist with procurement and review sub-contractors’ and fabricators’ design elements.

Typically, our role can include:

• Regular / ad-hoc site inspections and reporting
• Review of contractor design packages
• Design revisions
• Advice on Value Engineering
• Site inspections
• Snagging schedules and defects review
• Monitor planting establishment

On Handover, we can inspect, review, advise on completion of the Contract specification and quality of workmanship. We can also advise next steps for management and maintenance, looking ahead to the project in use – Workstage 7.

Typically, our role can include:

• Independent completion inspections
• Snagging schedules and defects review
• Rectification recommendations
• Monitoring and inspection through the planting establishment period

No landscape is never “finished”. Our environments are alive: They grow and evolve as the planting and ecology matures and use patterns change and adapt. We offer landscape management consultancy to:

• Review ecological, aesthetic, economic outcomes
• Review landscape condition, and assess repair, renewal or redesign
• Prepare landscape management strategies – identify objectives and outcomes, and the process to achieving them
• Landscape maintenance specifications – NBS clauses for landscape maintenance contractors
• Landscape management programming – A calendar of annual, monthly, weekly or daily actions, or periodic reviews of the landscape.
• Maintenance contract performance review
• Landscape asset BIM or CAD modelling – to provide graphical mapping or features, habitats or assets
• Infill and replacement planting schedules
• Community landscape initiatives – advice on conservation volunteering, user  and community engagement.