LAAR 541 - Technology III: Advanced Site Construction

Three hours.
3 Credits

This is a course that teaches students the skills and information necessary to ensure that creative landscape architecture designs can be effectively constructed and sustained over time. The dominant information covered is a cross section of typical construction materials utilized in the profession and technical drawings traditionally used to convey construction methods. Specific topics include: concrete, brick, wood and other construction materials, layout of design elements on sites, drawing conventions for construction drawings, stresses and construction material strengths, cost estimation, and other information needed to develop a package of construction drawings utilized by contractors to effectively build landscape architecture projects. The learning assessment in this course is based on the students’ ability to successfully take a series of small design projects and build a complete construction document package utilizing conventional landscape architecture vocabulary. The course also introduces students to the latest technologies and building systems that ensure green and sustainable land-scape environments.

Prerequisite(s) LAAR 522 and LAAR 532, ENST 770 or permission of the instructor or Department Chair.

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