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Simplified Grading for Garden Designers

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Simplified Grading for Garden Designers, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 32 lectures, based on 76 reviews, and has 704 subscribers.

You will learn about In this course you will learn the basics of contour manipulation and how to create a simple grading plan for your landscape design You will learn how to use the Slope Formula to show proposed contours and create useable space in your designs You will complete exercises using this same Slope Formula to control and direct drainage in your designs Demonstrate how to convey 3D concepts on a 2D sheet of paper You will learn how to use Ratios rather than Slope Formula to speed up the creation of proposed contours and create a simple grading plan You will work with exercises in Imperial, Engineering and Metric scales to demonstrate your skills and capabilities to solve grading problems This course is ideal for individuals who are Garden designers and design/build landscape contractors will benefit from this course. Homeowners will also benefit if you are looking to design/build a patio or have some drainage issues. or This course has been created using Imperial, Engineering and Metric scale values. Regardless of where you live or work this course will help you to create more interesting and diverse gardens and explain your solutions to homeowners and contractors. It is particularly useful for Garden designers and design/build landscape contractors will benefit from this course. Homeowners will also benefit if you are looking to design/build a patio or have some drainage issues. or This course has been created using Imperial, Engineering and Metric scale values. Regardless of where you live or work this course will help you to create more interesting and diverse gardens and explain your solutions to homeowners and contractors.

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Summary

Title: Simplified Grading for Garden Designers

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 32

Number of Published Lectures: 32

Number of Curriculum Items: 35

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 35

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

  • In this course you will learn the basics of contour manipulation and how to create a simple grading plan for your landscape design
  • You will learn how to use the Slope Formula to show proposed contours and create useable space in your designs
  • You will complete exercises using this same Slope Formula to control and direct drainage in your designs
  • Demonstrate how to convey 3D concepts on a 2D sheet of paper
  • You will learn how to use Ratios rather than Slope Formula to speed up the creation of proposed contours and create a simple grading plan
  • You will work with exercises in Imperial, Engineering and Metric scales to demonstrate your skills and capabilities to solve grading problems

Who Should Attend

  • Garden designers and design/build landscape contractors will benefit from this course. Homeowners will also benefit if you are looking to design/build a patio or have some drainage issues.
  • This course has been created using Imperial, Engineering and Metric scale values. Regardless of where you live or work this course will help you to create more interesting and diverse gardens and explain your solutions to homeowners and contractors.

Target Audiences

  • Garden designers and design/build landscape contractors will benefit from this course. Homeowners will also benefit if you are looking to design/build a patio or have some drainage issues.
  • This course has been created using Imperial, Engineering and Metric scale values. Regardless of where you live or work this course will help you to create more interesting and diverse gardens and explain your solutions to homeowners and contractors.

This is a beginners course on understanding elevations and contours and how they impact garden design.  Having an understanding of how to work with slopes and uneven ground will give your designs more interest and open doors to your own creativity.  It will enable you to convey, discuss and explain your ideas to a much fuller extent to clients, family and landscape contractors – it will give you a starting point to talk with confidence about your ideas. 

We’ll begin with the basic concept of contours and topographic maps, watersheds and simple contour manipulation.  This course is filled with exercises that will grow more complex as you move deeper into the different Sections.  By the end of this course you’ll have a much better understanding of contours and how to use different elevations to your advantage.  The last Section will cover field procedures for when you want to survey and create your own contour map of a site and build your design onto it.  Overall, this is a practical course in simplified grading for garden designers, contractors and homeowners.

WHAT THIS COURSE IS NOT:  This is not a course in engineering.  While the methods and concepts are basically the same you will need to realize your own limits and when you should hire professional help from surveyors, engineers and general contractors. 

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome!

Lecture 2: Introduction to the Course – Goals

Lecture 3: Spot Elevations and Contours – An Introduction

Lecture 4: Cross Sections

Lecture 5: Section Wrap Up

Chapter 2: Understanding Contours and Topography

Lecture 1: Swales and Ridges

Lecture 2: Watersheds

Lecture 3: Section Wrap Up

Chapter 3: Contour Visualization – Interpolation and Slope

Lecture 1: Interpolation and Slope Formula

Lecture 2: Slope Formula in Practice

Lecture 3: Slope Formula Exercise #1

Lecture 4: Slope Formula Exercise #2

Lecture 5: Slope Formula Exercise #3

Lecture 6: Section Wrap Up

Chapter 4: Grading Technique

Lecture 1: Grading Rules

Lecture 2: Introduction to Contour Manipulation

Lecture 3: Using Ratios

Lecture 4: Grading To Create Patios

Lecture 5: Designing a Drainage Swale

Lecture 6: Grading To Create Recreational Areas

Lecture 7: Grading Paths and Drainage Swales

Lecture 8: Grading Alternatives

Lecture 9: Putting It All Together – House Grading with Swale

Lecture 10: Section Wrap Up

Chapter 5: In the Field – Procedures to Create Your Own Contour Map

Lecture 1: The Builder's Level and Elevation Rod – Initial Set Up

Lecture 2: Planning Your Survey

Lecture 3: Benchmarks

Lecture 4: Recording Data

Lecture 5: Calculating Spot Elevations

Lecture 6: The Final Push – Creating a Design from Your Contour Map

Lecture 7: Setting Up The Builder's Level

Lecture 8: Course Wrap Up

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