I'm a commercial landscape estimator for a fairly large design/construction firm. Basically, when some construction company decides they want to build something, they hire a landscape architect (or, God forbid, a civil enginner)to come up with a landscape drawing. Then they send it to us to bid it. My job is to break the plans down, measure stuff off and determine how much it'd cost for us to do it and how much base profit we'd make. Then the salespeople finesse the numbers into a real bid and try to land it.
We do have a smallish design division and do landscaping on a few very upscale homes each year, but the bulk of the work comes from commercial construction: offices, warehouses, churches, municipal projects, etc.
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.