What is your role in working with other managers to help develop construction projects that impact landscaped areas on campus?
We, as a department, have developed good relationships with other departments, managers, and supervisors. When projects are being considered that affect the landscapes, the project managers include us in the planning process. Of course, with a campus of our size, there always are projects that can slip through without involving all the parties that might need to be included in the planning process. But to help prevent this from happening, we have a very good project management and construction service department that has a formal planning process, which includes all the disciplines that should be included. Each project is assigned a project manager who will see it through from beginning to end. How important is it for managers to get involved with landscape design to ensure resulting designs are maintainable? This is extremely important, and, fortunately, we are allowed to be part of the review process for all building construction and renovations on our campus. This provides us with a
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