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Develop maintenance programmes in hard and soft landscaping
Level
4
Credits
6
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working, or intending to work, in landscaping.
People credited with this unit standard are able to develop a maintenance
programme for: lawns; trees, shrubs and climbers; annuals, perennials, and
bulbs; hard landscaping areas; and to prepare a costing for a defined term
landscape maintenance programme.
Subfield
Horticulture
Domain
Landscape
Status
Registered
Status date
25 September 2006
Date version published
25 September 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 1024.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0032
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
Workplace procedures refer to verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for
the worksite and equipment.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Develop a maintenance programme for lawns.
Range
sown and turfed lawns.
Performance criteria
1.1
A one year maintenance programme is developed for lawns from laying or
seeding date, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the programme is
documented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
may include but is not limited to – mowing, weed control, chemical
and non chemical control, fertilising, watering, aeration and thatch
control, non-destructive levelling, re-seeding or re-turfing.
Element 2
Develop a maintenance programme for trees, shrubs and climbers.
Performance criteria
2.1
A five year maintenance programme is developed for trees, climbers, and
shrubs from the first year of planting, and work to be undertaken at each stage
of the programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
may include but is not limited to – weed control, chemical and non
chemical control methods, pruning and training, fertilising,
watering, stakes and support structures, protective structures,
ground cultivation, replacing dead or damaged plants.
Element 3
Develop a maintenance programme for annuals, perennials, and bulbs.
Performance criteria
3.1
A five year maintenance programme is developed for annuals, perennials and
bulbs from planting, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the
programme is documented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
may include but is not limited to – weed control, fertilising,
watering, ground cultivation, chemical and non chemical control
methods, dead-heading, tying back, trimming, lifting and storing
bulbs, removal and disposal of annuals, planned rotation of
bedding plants and bulbs, conditioning the soil, planting new
annuals, planting bulbs.
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Element 4
Develop a maintenance programme for hard landscaping areas.
Performance criteria
4.1
A maintenance programme is developed for a hard landscaping area for at least
two years, and work to be undertaken at each phase of the programme is
documented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
may include but is not limited to – hard surfaces, timber features,
water features.
Element 5
Prepare a costing for a defined term landscape maintenance programme.
Performance criteria
5.1
A quantity survey is documented for a one year term maintenance programme
in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
lawn, soft landscaping, hard landscaping, specialist plants,
landscape materials.
5.2
A quote is prepared for a defined term maintenance programme.
5.3
The quote is presented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body
with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from
assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation www.primaryito.ac.nz if you
wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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