Gain an in-depth understanding of landscape plans, typically the last of the civil engineering drawings. Discover the elements and purpose of these plans, their role in civil engineering, and how landscape architects or civil engineers use them.
Key Insights
- Landscape plans, often created by landscape architects or occasionally by civil engineers, are designed to showcase the planting legend. These plans contain a plant schedule, which includes symbols, codes, quantity, common names, botanical names, container size, category, size, and grade of the plants.
- These plans feature different plant categories like trees, shrubs, and ground covers, each with different hatch patterns. They also indicate areas where plants are to be removed, an action that can sometimes earn credits in certain jurisdictions.
- Landscape plans provide insights outside the building's context, such as symbols, call-outs, and quantities. They offer a glimpse into the creative proposals of landscape architects and civil engineers for different projects.
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The last of the civil engineering drawings that we will be reviewing is LS.1, the landscape plan. Landscape plans are created either by landscape architects or on occasion by civil engineers. The purpose of this drawing is to show the planting legend.
So there is normally a plant schedule. In the plant schedule, you will see that there are the symbols, there's a code, there's the quantity of the items, the common name, the botanical name, container size, category, the size, and then the grade. So they have the trees grouped over here.
They have the shrubs, shrub areas. This would be smaller shrubs that are grouped in high density. And then they have ground covers, which have different hatch patterns.
So you can see, for example, right here, there are three of the trees that are coded RF, and this is where they are. And the same pattern is happening throughout the drawing. We have certain areas where we have shrubs, ground covers, flowers.
We also have an area that's showing plants to be removed. Many jurisdictions provide people credits for removing plants because they can take the plants, transfer them somewhere else in the city, and receive credits for that action. So again, the landscape plan deals with the information outside of the building.
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We have the symbols, we have the call-outs, and we have the quantities. It's always fun to see what different landscape architects and civil engineers are proposing for different projects. And I look forward to working with you in our next set of professional discipline drawings.