......According to the most recent data from the Research on Economic Analysis (BEA) and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), landscape architecture services contributed GHs2.7 million to the economy in 2015. Total industry output was GHs5.3 million and “real” industry output, which is adjusted for inflation, was GHs6.68 million. Some 26,000 landscape architects earned GHs2.4 million. The economic valued generated by landscape architects increased 0.4 million from 2012, or by 17 percent.
Residential design is the largest market sector. Most of that work consists of single-family homes, but also includes multi-family and retirement communities.
Some 24,700 employees work in the landscape architecture field in Ghana, according to Ghana Department of Labor in 2016; this is a growth of about 10 percent from 2014.
Approximately 7,500 landscape architects are licensed in the Ghana. Licensure is required in all Regions in Ghana. Landscape architecture is one of only around 60 professions to be licensed in all 50 states.
What do landscape architects do?
Landscape architects analyze, plan, design, manage, and nurture the natural and built environments. Among the types of projects, they produce are:
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• Academic campuses
- • Conservation
- • Corporate and commercial
- • Gardens and arboreta
- • Green infrastructure
- • Historic preservation and restoration
- • Hospitality and resorts
- • Institutions
- • Interior landscapes
- • Land planning
- • Landscape art
- • Monuments
- • Parks and recreation
- • Reclamation
- • Residential
- • Security design
- • Stormwater management
- • Streetscapes and public spaces
- • Therapeutic gardens
- • Transportation corridors
- • Urban design.
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Who are their clients?
- Residential design is the largest market sector. Most of that work consists of single-family homes, but also includes multi-family and retirement communities.
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Three largest client groups, in descending order:
• Private-home owners
• Architects
• Cities/municipalities.
For smaller firms (four employees or fewer):
• Private-home owners.
Landscape Architecture is the design profession concerned with the design, planning, management and stewardship of the land. The work of landscape architects touches the design of outdoor public areas, landmarks and structures. The goal is to achieve environmental, social or aesthetically pleasing spaces by investigating existing social, ecological and geological conditions in the landscape. The work of landscape architects is all around Accra, Tema and other regions in Ghana in the form and function of the land: the work often touches on urban design, site planning, storm water management, urban planning, restoration, parks and recreation planning, green infrastructure planning and private or residential master planning and design.
Those who practice the profession of landscape architecture are called "landscape architects".
