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DIARY…


OCTOBER 2011 4-5 October RHS London Autumn Harvest Show RHS Horticultural Halls, London SW1P 2PE www.rhs.org.uk


5-8 October World Skills London 2011 ExCel London www.worldskillslondon2011.com


8 October Institute of Horticulture 2011 Conference & AGM Chelsea Physic Garden London SW3 4HS www.horticulture.org.uk


11-12 October HTA Garden futures conference


Millbank Media Centre, London SW1P 4QP www.the-hta.org.uk


25-26 October Creating Landscapes Capel Manor College, Enfield, Middx www.creatinglandscapes.org.uk


NOVEMBER 2011


1-4 November Hortifair 2011 Amsterdam www.hortifair.com


2-3 November IOG Scotsturf 2011 The Royal Highland Hall, Ingliston, Scotland www.iog.org/shows-and-events/ iog-scotsturf


17 November The Landscape Institute Awards The Brewery, Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD www.landscapeinstitute.org


DECEMBER 2011


2 December BALI National Landscape Awards Grosvenor House Hotel, London www.bali.co.uk


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AWP winmajor design competition inChina


Newcastle-based landscape archi- tects AWP are the winners of a competition to design a major mixed commercial and residential development in Wuhan, central China. The winning design concept will include 30ha of shopping malls, public squares, leisure complexes and 59 tower blocks set within four parkland landscapes. Construction is due to comm- ence in late 2011. The project comes less than six months after the


company first looked at China as a potential market.


Steve Laws,


director of AWP, said: “This is a significant development for Wuhan and we are up against competition from other Chinese and overseas design companies, including the architects who previously worked on the retail complex. Hopefully, this project will be


a springboard to secure further work in Wuhan and other parts of China.”


Landscape architect slams play consultation


Consultation on landscaping for children’s play spaces is an “utter waste of time”, delegates at IoG Saltex heard.


In a seminar exploring lessons


learned from designing effective play spaces, landscape architect Adam White said landscape architects and designers should engage with local children and parents to find out


what they want and work with them to develop a project relevant to the community and the local area. “Consultation doesn’t work. Communities have no idea what is right or wrong,” he said. “But engagement really works. Get local children involved and they will develop far more respect for the space because they will feel a greater


sense of ownership towards it.” White also criticised the amount of capital budget – 50 per cent – commonly spent on fencing and surfacing around play spaces and said designers too often concentrated on play equipment before looking at what could be done with the landscape and considering the emotions involved in play.


A hat trick of accreditations to deliver safe, professional and environmentally responsible landscape projects


Oak View Landscapes have become one of only a handful of landscape contracting companies to achieve ISO accreditation in three inter- national standards across the range of its business operations. The accreditations extend to a quality management system (ISO 9001), the effective monitoring and re- duction of environmental impacts (ISO 14001) and an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS 18001). “The framework of the three accreditations is already assisting us in identifying more efficient methods


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of working, thus reducing our overall environmental impact and controlling health and safety risks in our construction operations,” states Paul Downer, Oak View Landscapes Managing Director (pictured above). “Just as important, working to these standards will contribute to greater efficiencies benefiting the overall


performance of the business in the medium and long term.” He continues “Since our form- ation in 2004 we have developed successful long term relationships with many blue chip construction and development companies, it is important for these clients to see that we have systems and methods at the heart of our processes in order to work competitively and efficiently whilst delivering consistently high standards and safe working practices. On top of that, these accreditations make sound business sense!”


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