Secret Gardens LLC

Working With Us

From first brief to handover, in one place

Everything a design manager checks before appointing a landscape subconsultant — our process, our scope, our standards — stated up front, so you don't have to ask.

How a project moves through the practice

Five stages, one point of accountability throughout — concept through to construction supervision.

1

Concept

Site analysis · brief · mood boards · layout options

2

Schematic

Layout resolved · levels & sightlines · indicative cost plan

3

Detailed design

Full drawing package · planting & lighting · engineering coordination

4

Tender

BOQ · tender documentation · contractor evaluation

5

Supervision

Site inspections · RFI response · snagging · handover

What's included, what isn't

A standard landscape architecture appointment, and where design-and-build sits alongside it.

Item

Standard

Add-on

Design Build-only

Concept & schematic design

✓

Detailed design & drawings

✓

Planting, lighting & irrigation design

✓

Structural & MEP engineering

✓

Construction supervision

✓

Construction & build

✓

Aftercare & maintenance

✓

What's included, what isn't

A standard landscape architecture appointment, and where design-and-build sits alongside it.

Software

Revit, Civil 3D

Level of Detail

LOD by stage

File exchange

IFC, agreed naming

Model federation

Weekly

Clash detection

Logged & closed

Licensed, insured, quality-controlled

Trakhees registration

Revit, Civil 3D

Design consultancy licence

LOD by stage

Professional indemnity insurance

IFC, agreed naming

ISO 9001 (Quality)

Weekly

QA/QC process

Logged & closed

HSE policy

Logged & closed

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