OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 



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METHODS OF PROFESSIONAL 

 CHARGE 



XII. The value of the Landscape 

 Architect's services and the amount of 

 his charges vary with the experience and 

 reputation of the practitioner and also 

 with the character of the work upon 

 which he is employed. 



XIII. The American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects approves the following- 

 methods of charge as adapted to differ- 

 ent types of work, and to the wishes of 

 different clients: 



a. Jl fixed sum for stated service. 



1. Jl lump sum fee, including all ex- 

 penses. 



2. y? fee plus expenses. 



b. 'Per diem charges for the time of the 

 Landscape Architect and of his assist- 

 ants for visits and consultations or for 

 supervision of work. 



c. y? per acre charge, covering total 

 professional services, for development 

 of large country estates, real estate 

 subdivisions, parks and institutional 

 properties, but excluding smaller sub- 

 urban home grounds and gardens. 



d. Ji percentage charge on the "total cost"* 



of the work executed, and varying with 

 the amount of work to be executed 

 within a definite period. 



e. yln annual retaining fee or salary 

 for professional services rendered to 

 municipal and other corporations ; and 



in general for the continuing advisory 

 services which are often essential to 

 the wise maintenance and gradual de- 

 velopment of landscape work follow- 

 ing its initial execution. 



XIV. In any of the foregoing meth- 

 ods e.xcept "a lump sum fee" expenses are 

 usually rendered as additional charges. 

 Such chargeable expenses may be defined 

 by individual agreements. They nor- 

 mally include some or all of the follow- 

 ing items: traveling and living expenses 

 of the Landscape Architect and of his 

 assistants while away from the olifice; 

 long distance telephone calls, telegrams, 

 express charges, prints and photographs ; 

 fees for services of specialists when re- 

 quired and authorized by the client; 

 other special disbursements authorized 

 l)y the client; and under methods a -2, c 

 and e a charge for time of assistants 

 while engaged on work authorized by the 

 client. When the work of more than 

 one client is visited on any one trip, 

 traveling and living expenses are pro- 

 portioned among the works visited. 



XV. In case of the abandonment or 

 suspension of the work, payment is due 

 the Landscape Architect in proportion 

 to the services performed. 



XVI. Payments to the Landscape 

 Architect are due according to bills ren- 

 dered either at monthly intervals or at 

 stages of the work when it is practicable 

 to determine charges for professional 

 services and expenses to date as the work 

 progresses. 



*The "total cost" of the work is to be interpreted as the cost of all labor and materials neces- 

 sary to complete the work, plus all transportation charges, plus contractors' profits and expenses, 

 as such cost would be if all materials were purchased new and all labor fully paid for at market 

 prices current when these were ordered. 



