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ASLA's 50 by 2010 Update New Hampshire and Colorado Legislative Success! Both practice act bills now headed to governor—New Hampshire expected to be signed; Colorado prognosis unclear. Read more about it at - www.asla.org/land/2006/0508/state.html Spring Grub Control Management Updates written by the turf specialists of the UMass Extension Turf Program. The messages cover local problems, are geared toward local conditions, and are posted frequently during the growing season. The most current message can be found online at www.umassturf.org/mangement_updates/ management_updates.html June
1-28, 2006 June
22, 2006 June
25, 2006 Looking
for Talented Professionals for Our Waltham, MA Office Full
time Landscape Architect/ Project Manager Full-time,
Entry-Level Landscape Designer Full-time,
CAD Designer Wendy Sarno Award-Winning Landscape Architecture Practice Seeks Project Managers and Landscape Architect/Designer Shadley Associates is an award-winning and quickly growing landscape architecture practice located in a new office in Lexington Center. We seek two accomplished, ambitious and discerning professionals to work with us on several large, mixed-use development projects. These projects require landscape architects who are facile with Smart Growth principles, sustainable construction and maintenance practices, traffic calming standards and the design of exciting outdoor spaces that attract many people. Our practice also includes contemporary and historic public parks, civic spaces, historic/cultural sites, housing, waterfronts, streetscapes and residential estates. Shadley Associates has two full-time openings. The first is for a licensed Project Manager with 8-15 years of private practice. Required are strong design, hand graphic and presentation skills, experience with construction documents and construction, and AutoCAD, Photoshop and MS Office.We also seek a landscape architect/designer with 2-7 years experience in private practice and an LA degree from an accredited institution. Responsibilities are design development, graphic production, creation of design and technical drawings, details, specifications and cost estimates. Must have design and graphic skills and know AutoCAD, Photoshop and MS Office.SA offers exceptional growth and reward opportunities for highly motivated individuals with competitive salary and benefits package based upon experience. Please contact: Pam Shadley Registered Landscape Architect with 3 to 8 Years Experience Halvorson Design Partnership is seeking a registered landscape architect with 3 to 8 years experience. Strong design, hand and computer graphics, writing, and presentation skills are required. Applicants should be proficient in AutoCad, Photoshop and Microsoft Office. Some experience with Illustrator, Sketch-Up and In-Design is desired.Please forward a resume, portfolio and letter of intent via email or mail to: Halvorson Design Partnership
Responsibilities include assisting senior Landscape Architects in design and preparation of site design contract drawings and specifications. Duties will include preparation of conceptual and final detailed site layout and grading plans, construction details, color renderings and presentation graphics. Candidates will be responsible to research and collect data, perform quantity takeoffs and estimates, maintain project files, assist in preparation of CDM site design standards, and collaborate with project managers in a multi-discipline environment. Position requires ability to work on multiple projects involving time constraints. Proficiency in AutoCAD release 2000 or later is required. Familiarity and ability to use Land Desktop, Photoshop and Auto Turn software are a plus.B.S. in landscape architecture/ BLA/ MLA accredited degree required. MLA as a second professional degree may be substituted for experience. Candidate must be on track to obtain professional registration, and have Continuing Education Units as required by registration laws. 0 to 3 years of related experience required. Proficiency in AutoCAD with excellent communication skills required.Qualified candidates please send your resume and cover letter to: Michaela CarrollWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Congratulations
David Walsh and Sean Sanger
Smithsonian’s
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Seventh Annual National Design
Awards Finalists Announced Detective
work helps revive a famed Boston landmark American
Society of Landscape Architects green roof - Up on the roof Do
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to info@BSLAweb.org. Connecticut
College Arboretum Lexington
Tree Committee 2006 Lecture Series Design Competitions Poligon’s
Annual “Reflecting Place” Design Competition
The winning entry will be constructed, displayed at the 2006 ASLA Expo, and subsequently donated to a city chosen by the winner. Past winners include “A Western Skyline” by Salt Lake City, Utah, firm Landscape Design, and “Santa Fe” by Jesse Scott, Sites Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Photographs
of these winners, the official Call for Entries, and a press section
are all available on the Poligon website at http://www.poligon.com.
Registrations for participation are due by May 12, and final materials
are due June 30. Roxbury
Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall - The new Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall (RCAHH) at 184 Dudley Street near Boston's Dudley Square is working to create a work of public art to celebrate the newly established arts center in Roxbury's Dudley Square. The following sites have been identified for potential artistic enhancement, particularly for the development of creative lighting design features: back façade and entrance, four-storey side façade visible from Dudley, and vestibule enhancements. Selected artists/designers/teams will be paid $1,000 to create full proposals. A $100,000+ budget is anticipated. The art selection process will be facilitated by the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art (UrbanArts). This project is funded by the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund Trust Fund of the City of Boston and the Fund for the Arts of New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Interested artists/designers/teams should download the RFQ at www.cityofboston.gov/arts/pdfs/RFQ2.pdf Compost--the
Sustainable Choice Can landscape architects be sustainable and environmentally minded when it comes to establishing new landscape and turf-planting areas? At the same time, can they be economically practical and functional? They can be if they're using compost. More environmentally sustainable than peat, bark and topsoi, compost use in landscaping has been well researched, proving it to be an effective product for improving deficient soils physically, chemically and microbiologically. It is well documented that there has been a significant reduction in soil quality across the nation. It has also become more difficult for those in the landscaping industry to obtain functioning, landscape-grade soils they can use on projects. Fortunately, however, this situation has coincided with an increase in compost production. Although poor soil conditions make it more difficult and costly to manage the landscape, we know that by improving soil health, or enriching it with stabilized organic matter (compost), not only can plant growth be improved but sustainability of landscapes also is improved. The growth of the commercial composting industry has made it a viable supplier of high quality compost to the landscape industry. Of course, not all composting facilities produce a commercial-grade product, and, for that reason, it is key that any compost specified for use by landscape architects be regularly tested by a third-party lab. The U.S. Composting Council (USCC) developed its Seal of Testing Assurance (STA) Program in March 2000 to manage such a program and improve a customer's ability to select, purchase and use compost. The program rules require participating facilities to sample and test their compost products on an ongoing basis by a network of certified laboratories that use uniform protocols provided by USCC. It also requires the disclosure of test analyses and product ingredient data, as well as end-use instructions to compost customers. This, of course, is what you would expect when specifying or using any horticultural product. When your ready to use compost, specify STA Program certified composts. For details about the STA Program, see the attached pdf - http://www.BSLAweb.org/pdf/02STAMainPromoPiece.pdf. For a list of STA Program-certified composters, visit USCC's Web site, www.compostingcouncil.org, and click on STA Program.
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