The BALI North West region presentation was held at The Mere golf & country club Mere, Knutsford, Cheshire with 96 people attending including landscape contractors, landscape architects and garden designers who wish to achieve higher levels of professionalism.
The evening commenced with Danny Warner from Vectorworks presenting an overview of the leading landscape design software that has helped in the creation of residential landscaping and commercial projects from concept to construction.
The 3 course meal was served followed by Mark Gregory from Landform Consultants Ltd the award winning garden design and landscape specialists giving an excellent presentation on garden construction and the various pit falls that can occur when constructing a new landscape garden design.
The presentation included
The principles of good construction and the latest techniques in the construction of a new landscaped garden with the specification process and the relationship between the contractor and the landscape architect or garden designer.
Three areas of built work was covered including:
Vertical walls:
from foundation ,specification and design, to different backing walls and their components with different pointing and jointing techniques.
Paving:
from sub base design and considerations to paving types and their characteristics and laying methods, pointing design and what can go wrong and how to prevent it.
SUDS :
SUDS made simple and how to apply , designing drainage solutions, how to specify SUDS and the various options available
The presentation provided valuable construction techniques, there was a questions and answers session throughout along with the chance to engage into some great discussions but as time was running out I certainly did not want to interupt the flow of such a good presentation
All in all it was a very well organised evening by Diane McCulloch from BALI and a great result in getting 96 people to attend, it was a superb meal at a top quality hotel in the Cheshire area in excellent surroundings with a good presentation by APL Chairman and 12 times Chelsea Flower show award winner Mark Gregory who has also won numerous industry awards for projects in London and the South East.
His dynamic approach, energy and experience have given him a reputation for innovation and technical expertise within the landscaping community.
It was well worth giving up a night of your time for the information a garden designer or landscape architect would gain by attending
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Comments
Sounds like a very interesting evening and well worth attending.
I have to say I googled Mark Gregory after reading Gary's comment and to my surprise it returned results for firstly an actor then an artist and thirdly linkedin 25 Mark Gregory results. Image results were a little better and APL Mark Gregory was the fourth result courtesy of the BBC RHS Chelsea coverage.
So perhaps this piece will improve google search results for this particular Mark Gregory in future, although it will not help Gary's feeling of riding on coat-tails.
Gary its only a few weeks ago you deleted most of your forum posts and of course the photo of the patio showing the cross road laying pattern and you have the audacity to post on my blog something negative (yet again).
anyway moving on to something interesting
yes it was a very good night Tanya and for someone like yourself t would be well worth attending to gain if only a little bit of knowlege, Mark did actually explain it was a full day presentation condensened into a couple of hours but I am sure if you stayed behind afterwards he would explain anything what you may of not understood
thank you Paul
MY OTHER COMMENT DELETED AS A FORUM MEMBER MY THOUGHTS BEING SUPPRESSED FROM GIVING AN OPINION DUE TO OTHER MEMBERS ARROGANCE AND WILL ONLY BE REMOVED BY A MODERATOR . . . .
Thank you for your kind words Gaynor
Thank you John, as it happens I did indeed wear one of my my leather jacket, I actually have 3 different leather jackets and rotate them round :)