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How New Health Care Laws Could Affect Worker’s Compensation
The new health care reform law will have both negative and positive effects on worker’s compensation systems throughout the nation, Dr. David Deitz, national medical director of commercial insurance strategic practices at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Boston, told attendees during the Disability Management Employer Coalition in Las Vegas.
November 10, 2014
Business
Boston Garden Designed to Be Impractical
One garden designer encouraged onlookers to wonder aimlessly in his 7,500-square-foot creation in Boston.
September 25, 2013
Business
Landscape Design Competition Seeks Entries
Designers gear up, because a new competition is looking for entries. Suburbia Transformed 3.0 is a new residential landscape design competition put on by the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design, according the American Society of Landscape Architects.
August 30, 2013
Business
Landscaper Heads Back To School To Better Business
Landscaping is not all about the trimming of bushes and mowing the lawn. In fact, many landscapers might argue that the majority of landscaping on an owner’s end is sitting behind a desk.
July 2, 2013
Business
Museum’s Exhibit Caters to Landscapers
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts is opening a new type of exhibit that might spark the interest of some landscapers.
June 27, 2013
Business
Registration Open for ASLA Meeting & EXPO
Registration is now open for the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting and EXPO. From Nov. 15-18 in Boston, Massachusetts, the show will bring in an estimated 6,000 attendees and is noted as the world’s largest annual gathering for landscape architecture.
May 14, 2013
Design-Build
How Explosive is Fertilizer?
With the Boston bombing still weighing on everyone’s mind and heart, word of another explosion at a fertilizer plant in Waco, Texas, almost seemed unreal. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the explosion — whether it was an accident or attack — but the devastation is clear. I’ve lived in Texas and visited […]
April 18, 2013
Business
Summoning Nature for Healing
The Crown Sky Garden, on the 11th floor of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is a 5,000-square-foot area for play and contemplation and the second healing garden completed last year by Mikyoung Kim. Ms. Kim, a 44-year-old landscape architect, is regarded as an artful weaver of nature and sculpture. The Sky Garden features a bamboo grove and interactive furniture that emits sounds when an embedded brass hand is touched with a live one.
February 11, 2013
Business
Landscape Architect Creates Thoughtful Outdoor Spaces
The smallest details count in landscape design, from storm water drainage systems to paving materials and seasonal plant color. It is not unusual, for example, for landscape architects to spend an entire day just planning the placement of trash receptacles and making sure a garbage truck can back up into the site to remove waste, said Michael D’Angelo, 27, a landscape architect at Copley Wolff Design Group in Boston.
November 21, 2012
Business
April is National Landscape Architecture Month
To recognize National Landscape Architecture Month in April, many landscape architects will host activities to celebrate the profession and explain how their work contributes to the public’s well-being. In keeping with this year’s theme, many events will demonstrate how green design can encourage healthy living. Some of the events throughout National Landscape Architecture Month include: […]
March 30, 2012
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