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- Landscape gardener plan and design land areas for projects such as parks, schools, hospitals, roads, malls, plazas, sports complexes, holiday resorts, hotel complexes, shopping centres, airports, housing subdivisions, national parks, playgrounds and commercial, industrial and residential sites.
- They prepare specifications, arrange cost estimates, list building materials required and detail working drawings of the site, showing features such as location of buildings, roads and walkways, land contours and drainage systems, soil conservation measures and the vegetation to be planted or retained
- They may use computer and video-simulation packages to develop broad scale landscape plans
- They draw up site plans outlining the development of the site, discuss with clients and seek approval
- They advise on landscape problems concerned with environmental planning.
- They study and discuss with clients designs, costs and construction of projects and talk to architects, engineers and other professionals, and gather information on factors such as historical and natural conservation requirements, soil structure, drainage, rock features, existing and proposed buildings and sun and shade movements
