Contents with respect to Planning

How planning a project works

1. Consulting and Design

I advise you on all aspects of modern garden architecture and show you the possibilities for your dream garden. Together, we will determine your needs and the exact budget framework. Then, along with you, I will plan your own personal refuge. Be it a row-house garden, a secluded villa park, or a public space, there will be an optimal solution for any outdoor grounds in terms of design and economics. In close cooperation with you as the future user, I will create an aesthetic language of forms that highlights equal measures of symmetry and proportion, but also ergonomics and function. It goes without saying that, very specifically, it will be your own personal style that finds its perfect expression in the new design.

2. Planning the Design

The design plan summarizes the planning results true-to-scale. Cross-sections or perspective views may also aid in reviewing construction details during planning. These will help you to gain a feeling for the new outdoor space.

3. Implementation of the Plans

Outline plans and detailed technical drawings clarify all constructional questions. They determine the measurements required, and define the exact manner of implementation, including the qualities of the respective materials. Together with the list of services to be provided, these constitute the prerequisite for completely assessing the dimensions and quantities and for making consistent price comparisons on the market.

4. Planning the Planting

Planting plans outline the overall arrangement of greenery in an outdoor space. The plans ascertain the various genus and species, delivery sizes, as well as the exact numbers needed for all of the plant areas. Differentiated plantings call for plans on a scale of 1:50 (1 cm on the plans = 50 cm in real life). The basis of healthy planting is the careful analysis of all important location factors such as complete shade (for example, the north side of a building), varying degrees of half shades (for example, at the edge of a woods) or full sun (for example, southern hillside exposure). In addition, these areas are distinguished, say, by moistness, dryness or permeable soil conditions. Even around a single home, as a rule you may encounter several different location factors. Changing location factors also lead to respectively different plant combinations. Failing to take these varying location conditions into consideration invariably means an unnecessarily high-maintenance garden.

5. List of Services

In order to reliably prepare the building of outdoor grounds, the entire construction process is defined in a List of Services (LV). Here, all services are professionally described and divided up into clear units (positions), which in turn enables the builder to present a binding calculation for them. As a rule, each LV position is confined to the DIN-standard use of a single building material or definable work step so that it is possible at the same time to determine exact amounts. In addition, a professional LV structure also takes into consideration that in the event of short-term changes, certain materials and their modes of processing may still be combined with one another. During the building process, this then ensures a relatively high degree of flexibility while the prices nevertheless remain fixed. The list of services is the main component of the building contract, and thus guarantees ultimate clarity for all questions regarding the quality of the execution or construction invoicing. Only a detailed and complete list of services makes it possible for you to be sure of the costs for your building project.

6. Construction Supervision

Any idea is only as good as its realization. Besides convincing designs and long-year gardening experience, I offer you my broad range of experience as an engineer with respect to reliable construction supervision and cost controlling. Thus, I implement even highly complex projects while sticking to agreed-upon budget terms. Beautiful private gardens are intensely detailed building projects, in which various trades interact. As this happens, numerous technical guidelines and norms must be brought into harmony with all garden demands. By choosing suitable craftsmen and because of my pro-active construction supervision, I ensure a professional and punctual realization of the work. With clearly defined standards for construction invoicing, I see to it that this is kept transparent in a way that is also understandable in lay terms at all times.

7. Quality and Service

Planning and building a garden is a matter that requires particular confidence and trust, since a garden needs a period of development that clearly extends past the time of the actual conclusion of the construction works. As your independent trustee, I guarantee to you a solid garden quality, which will cause you greatest joy even after decades. Likewise, I save you from possible disadvantages in terms of costs during the actual phase of construction. In this way, you receive your dream garden in the most cost-efficient way. Discretion, transparency, and a reliable customer service are a given for me.