Documents of the project: bill of quantities, list of unit prices, price analyses, drawings, time table program, contract, safety plan, etc..;
different types of public and private works: routine maintenance, requalification, restoration and new construction;
Setting up a project of a green space and the works that made it: relief, constraints checking, methods of inspection.
Alessandro Toccolini
Piano e progetto di area verde 2012
Alberto Pirani
Il verde in Città
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired:
How to prepare the technical documents of a project of a garden/park
Competence acquired:
How to manage a garden project
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
How to prepare a complete garden project.
Prerequisites
Courses to be used as requirements (required and/or recommended):
Students are expected to be familiar with the principles and terminology of plant biology, agronomy and hand or CAD drawing .
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities: 96
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 32
Contact hours for Laboratory (hours):
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 16
Seminars (hours):
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab: although non compulsory, but warmly recommended
Course program
What is a design of a garden;
Who needs a project: difference between a project for a private customer or for a contractor;
documents of the project: bill of quantities, list of unit prices, price analysis, tables, time trial program, the special conditions of contract, the safety plan, etc..;
types of public and private works: routine maintenance, restoration and new construction;
Setting up a project to green space and the works that compose it: survey, constraints checking, methods of inspection, ecc.;
hand and CAD drawings differences and appeal to the customer, technical procedures;
setting preliminary functional subdivision of the areas according to the primary functions (for public and private parks) and accessory (car parks, toilets, etc..)
plantation schemes: planting distance, alternating between species with different growth rates and different final size, the use of ground cover, rows mono and multi-species, stratification planes in the woods (dominance, etc.).
details of the project;
construction and safety management of work;
critical analysis of executed projects ;
Trials on the elaboration of a preliminary draft of a green area.