Specification Writing for Garden Design – Workshops on Garden Design Series

Aimed at novice and professional garden designers, this specification `workshop’ explains a method of producing instructions for garden design work which can be tailored to an individual designer’s current project.

The model specification has been developed over many years and is thoroughly tried and tested. It has been kept deliberately brief and is flexible enough to allow designers to expand or condense it to suit their needs, and to allow use of their favourite products and plants.

Students and newly-qualified garden designers will find the model specification useful both as a contract document and as a technical check-list; it can be used on the smallest projects where the specification clauses are annotated directly on drawings or plans. In addition to the advice on the writing of specifications, examples of draft letters are included which may be used or adapted during the tendering phases of a project.

The format of the pages in this book has the model clauses on the right-hand side of the relevant page, with advice, reminders and other comments to the left. The clauses themselves are also reproduced on CD-ROM so that they may be downloaded by designers for their own adaptation and uses.

The overall format assumes a designer is acting as an independent consultant and not as an employee or partner of a contractor offering a package design and build service.

84 pages; spiral-bound with CD-ROM of clauses only.
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm, landscape format.