Last week was as busy as ever with the training team busy training Vectorworks users, supporting our existing clients and preparing our 12 Days of Christmas presents.
Adrian and I were lucky enough to visit Kew Gardens, but no, we weren’t skiving. We were dropping in on the lucky students of The London College of Garden Design, where we’ll be offering Vectorworks Landmark training and support in their Spring term. And what lucky trainers we will be! Spring plants and a classroom right next to the Orangery for tea and cake (so dear to my heart). One of the students is an former colleague from my corporate IT days who has finally made his escape. What a stunning place to learn garden design!
We also visited another firm of Landscape Architects, who have been using Vectorworks for years, but we’re amazed to see what functionality they had missed… Planting tools, hardscape tools, but the biggest delight of all was the prospect of using the site modelling tools. We’re looking forward to bringing them up to speed and saving them a lot of time in the future.
Adrian has had a few long days travelling around the country. He recently presented Vectorworks Landmark the BALI meeting in Ringwood, Hampshire. On another occasion he headed North to Knutsford to the BALI event on How to Achieve Excellence in Construction. He enjoyed the opportunity to hear Mark Gregory from Landform Consultants speak and was able to show the assembled crowd how Vectorworks Landmark can be used in a design and build situation to produce quantities and material schedules directly from the drawing, which update as the design changes.
Training for Design partners with Benchmark Estimating
Moving on from a list of quantities, we’re delighted to announce that we are now authorised resellers and trainers for Benchmark Estimating Software. For many landscapers, the limit to growing the business is all based around providing accurate estimates and specifications. With its library of landscaping items, and associated costs, all of which can be tailored to your business and locations, benchmark produces a specification document together with associated material and labour costs, ultimately reducing the risk when tendering for projects. More information can be found on our website here.
