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This course has been developed to provide delegates the opportunity to learn new skills in a relaxed and welcoming environment. The course combines theory, practical training and assessment to provide learners with in-depth knowledge and skills to fully understand a site and considerations for working with the areas for future landscape projects. Learners will achieve a Lantra Awards Certification of Competence.
The finer details
Our courses have been created with our learners in mind and provide continued support to help them achieve their goals in the landscape industry. Throughout the training days, learners have a fantastic opportunity to draw on the extensive experience of our professional industry experts, and will learn how the landscape industry is changing to develop standards to meet our changing environment.
Course description:
Who should attend?
This course is suited to those who have are new to the industry or have some experience working in the landscape industry, and are looking to learn new skills, improve upon existing skills, or want to rethink their approach to landscaping projects.
What will be covered?
This 1 day training programme combines theory and practical training to ensure the learner has a full understanding of how to survey and capture the correct information from a site. The attendee will gain:
- An understanding of working with clients, designers and contractors and how site surveys can establish working relationships, and aid with accurate pricing and quoting.
- A comprehensive knowledge of health & safety requirements for site, identifying potential hazards and hidden dangers to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
- An understanding of potential project considerations required when undertaking a survey to help prevent delays, additional costs and issues when constructing on site.
- Full understanding of selecting the correct materials, tools and equipment for surveying and the potential project.
- Full understanding of working with measurements, scales, levels, gradients, site variations and how to overcome difficult obstacles you may find on a site.
- Understanding how and where to survey to enable smooth and successful project builds including how baselines and offsets are fundamental elements to any landscaping project
- Full understanding of assessing and surveying sites including techniques to cover all circumstances
- Full understanding and competent operation of site survey equipment including the use of traditional techniques, automatic levels (dumpy levels), rotating levels (laser levels) and altimeter levels (zip levels)
- The ability to produce a competent site survey plan for pricing, and project construction.
- Hands-on training throughout the day to provide learners with real-world practical experience that can be utilised when on site
- Practical assessments throughout to ensure competent understandin
Other areas of interest
We offer a variety of courses to support your landscaping career including:
Site Setting-out & Site Preparation
Natural Stone Paving Course
Clay Pavers Course
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