2: The Budget Boondoggle
from The Green Meridian Podcast - A Landscape Design/Build Toolkit
It's stinking up the place. There's a fragrance in the air. Can you smell it? It's not daphne or lilac. It's kind of a poopy smell. Like sarcoccocca! (Is that a bad comparison? ) maybe that weird greenhouse plant we read about that blooms once every few years. What I'm articulating badly is - designers have a real problem that stinks up our reputation. So today, let's address the elephant in the room, the bull in the china shop - or what I might call in my own subtle way "the turd on the table"... the fact that Designers have a helluva time with budgeting projects. Hey, let's give credit where credit is due. We do amazing things with hardscapes and plant materials. But the lack of a budget understanding leads to all kinds of embarrassment and acrimony, costs a lot of time in revision and recrimination - and underscores the divisions we see most often between designers and contractors. Budgets and pricing for our work meet at the nexus of product, personnel and production. Depending upon your viewpoint, you may see this issue from differing angles....
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