What are Expansive Soils? Expansive soils shrink and swell in response to soil moisture levels. Moving soil exerts tremendous pressure on paving, footings, and foundations. How To Identify Expansive Soils Landscape architects can design and build on sites with expansive…
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Landscape Expansive Soils Like A Pro
Expansive soils pose problems for site development and landscaping throughout the state. Moving soils can wreak havoc on structure, pavement, and plantings. Fortunately, there are design and construction methods that landscape architects can use to minimize the negative impact of…
What Everybody Ought to Know About Identifying Existing Site Conditions
Identifying existing site conditions is one of the many job tasks in the inventory section of the California Supplemental Exam for landscape architects. Understanding the purpose of site inventories is one area where candidates can expect a question or two…
Identify Existing Site Conditions Like A Pro
Fourteen percent of exam questions on the California Supplemental Exam (CSE) for landscape architects involve site inventory job tasks. Since you have likely passed the Landscape Architect Registration Exam (LARE), you already are familiar with many site inventory skill sets…
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Who Else Wants to Master Site Inventory Skills for the California Supplemental Exam?
If you are like me, you are an aspiring landscape architect who is trying to get a landscape architect license in California. We have already taken and passed the Landscape Architect Registration Exam (LARE). Now, another daunting obstacle stands in…
Tagged with: CSE for Landscape Archtiects, Inventory, Site Inventory
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Posted in Site Inventory, Uncategorized
Site Inventory - Purpose & Process
The job task that we will explore in this article is your ability to identify existing site conditions for the California Supplemental Exam for landscape architects. There are several existing site conditions that landscape architect candidates must be to identify.
Tagged with: Site Inventory, Site Inventory Process, Site Inventory Purpose
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Posted in Site Inventory
Site Inventory - Identifying Existing Conditions
Identifying existing conditions is the first of several job tasks examined on the California Supplemental Exam for landscape architects. We will start our exploration of site analysis as it relates to the CSE exam by dissecting the official “California Supplemental…
Tagged with: Cultural Conditions, Infrastructure, Natural Conditions, Site Conditions, Site Features, Site Inventory, T6
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Posted in Site Inventory
New Series - Site Inventory
This is the first in a series of posts on a site inventory which is one of many topics covered on the California Supplemental Exam for landscape architects. What is Site Inventory? According to the Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and…
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