Architect (Landscape) Grade A (Reis)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Overview
Provide landscape architectural planning and design services: Assess landscape architectural requirements for new and existing state-owned properties and infrastructure projects. Conduct site investigations and analyse existing site conditions, including l andscape, plants, land use and environmental characteristics.
Requirements
- for newly completed landscapes where applicable
- Provide inputs into project close- out documentation and as -built information
- Provide professional landscape architectural advice and stakeholder support: Provide professional and technical advice on landscape architectural matters to management, client departments and project teams
- Advise stakeholders on landscape planning, design, r ehabilitation and maintenance requirements
- Participate in multidisciplinary planning, design review and project meetings
- Liaise with relevant authorities on environmental, landscape and related statutory requirements
- Provide technical inputs into departmental policies, norms, standards and guidelines relating to landscaping and external environments
- Prepare technical reports, recommendations, presentations and professional opinions on landscape architectural matters
- Participate in the assessment of exi sting landscaped environments and recommend improvement or rehabilitation interventions
Responsibilities
- Provide landscape architectural planning and design services: Assess landscape architectural requirements for new and existing state-owned properties and infrastructure projects
- Conduct site investigations and analyse existing site conditions, including l andscape, plants, land use and environmental characteristics
- Prepare site development plans, pre-design high-level development proposals, landscape concepts, master plans, layouts and detailed landscape designs
- Develop appropriate hard and soft landscape solutions
- Prepare planting designs and recommend suitable plant species, materials and landscape elements
- Provide landscape architectural inputs into feasibility studies, project briefs and infrastructure planning processes
- Integrate landscape requirements with architectural, engineering and other built-environment designs
- Incorporate universal accessibility, sustainability, water efficiency and climate- responsive principles into landscape designs
- Ensure landscape projects comply with applicable legis lation, policies, environmental requirements, norms and standards
- Promote environmentally sustainable landscape planning and design
- Develop and manage landscape architectural documentation: Prepare and/or review landscape drawings, specifications, schedules, bills of quantities/input to bills of quantities and related technical documentation
- Develop detailed documentation for hard landscaping, soft landscaping, planting, irrigation and external landscape elements
- Prepare technical specifications for landscape works and materials
- Coordinate landscape documentation with architectural, civil, structural and other professional disciplines
- Review landscape documentation prepared by consultants for technical accuracy, completeness and compliance
- Provide landscape architectural inputs into tender and procurement documentation
- Facilitate relevant approvals and maintain appropriate technical and project records
- Ensure approved design amendments are incorporated into project documentation
- Keep abreast of developments, technologies and best practices within the landscape architectural profession
- Develop landscape architectural related processes, methods and practices in line with applicable prescripts
- Provide landscape architectural services during project implementation: Monitor landscape construction and implementation to ensure compliance with approved designs, specifications and standards
- Conduct site inspections and partici pate in project, technical and site meetings
- Monitor the quality of hard and soft landscaping works, planting, irrigation systems and related installations
- Identify deviations from approved landscape designs and recommend corrective measures
- Provide professional advice and technical clarification on landscape-related matters during construction
- Review proposed substitutions, design changes and variations from a landscape architectural perspective
- Participate in practical completion, works completion and final completion inspections
- Identify landscape defects and monitor their rectification
- Monitor establishment and maintenance
How to apply
Application instructions from the official source
for the position of Architect (Landscape) must be emailed to: Recruitment26- [email protected]
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Enquiries
Recruitment enquiries
Mr FH van Wyk at (067) 595 2195
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