By Matthew Appleby
10 September 2013
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CDG Gains EASA Design Organisation Approval
WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England, Sept. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — CDG, a Boeing company, has received Design Organisation Approval (DOA) from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The DOA certificate (Part 21, Section A, Subpart J) was awarded to CDG’s UK Interior Design Center.
Under the scope of the EASA approval, CDG is authorized to provide engineering design services for changes and minor repairs to large aircraft for cabin interiors. This includes galleys, seats and other interiors equipment that does not affect the primary airframe structure.
The EASA DOA enables CDG to define the classification of a proposed cabin interiors change as either “minor” or “major”. For any changes or repairs that are classified as “minor”, CDG can provide direct approval. For changes or repairs classified as “major”, CDG will apply for a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) from EASA.
CDG works directly with approved Production and Maintenance Organisations (POAs/MOAs), developing documentation with approved design data and design control in order to supply a complete design to delivery solution. CDG also offers technical documentation authoring services, and can apply the original interiors engineering design data to generate accurate technical publications to support aircraft maintenance and operations.
“This EASA approval enables CDG to act as a trusted partner to help our customers navigate through the entire cycle of the design, certification and delivery processes for large aircraft interiors configuration changes and modifications,” said Mike Parven, chief operating officer for CDG. “Our customers can focus their time and energy on envisioning exactly what is wanted in the aircraft interior, and how it will be used after delivery.”
A large portion of CDG’s core competency in interiors and payload engineering resides in the UK; it was a strategic decision to leverage this UK facility capability to pursue the EASA DOA. CDG has an extensive engineering services talent pool across its UK, USA and India facilities to meet global customer support requirements for both commercial and VIP aircraft interiors.
For more information on CDG Engineering Design Services, visit www.cdgnow.com/engineering-solutions/engineering/engineering-design/.
About CDG
CDG is a world-class strategic partner for engineering-driven organizations that develop, support, operate and maintain complex equipment. The company leverages a strong history of more than 40 years of experience to provide industry-leading engineering services, technical documentation, training solutions and software solutions for commercial and VIP aviation, aerospace and defense, manufacturing and other engineering-focused industries. CDG is a Boeing subsidiary and part of the Digital Aviation business unit within Boeing Commercial Aviation Services. For more information about CDG, visit www.cdgnow.com.
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Swimwear designer Rod Beattie’s house: Garden views galore
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Nature plays a role in making each part of this home feel special. Virtually every room in the 2,000-square-foot residence has a door to the outside, where Beattie has created not one garden but rather a series of intimate vignettes — distinct deck and patio areas punctuated with artfully arranged container plants and furniture.
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The three-bedroom house is on 1.3 acres that Beattie has replanted and updated over 15 years, taking as inspiration frequent visits to the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino and Lotusland in Montecito.
The Mid-Century post-and-beam stood vacant and unattended for more than a year before Beattie purchased it in 1999, becoming the home’s second owner.
“It hadn’t been altered, and no one had done a weird 1970s remodel,” he said. “It was like they built this amazing home in 1953 and then never did anything else to it other than letting it age naturally over the years. It was a canvas just waiting to be painted upon.”
William Rudolph, a commercial architect, was said to have designed the home, although Beattie hasn’t been able to learn much about him. The big windows, beamed ceiling and indoor-outdoor connection are what resonated.
“I grew up in a 1960s tract home in Eagle Rock, and certain aspects are familiar to me here,” said Beattie, creative director for Pasadena-based Bleu/Rod Beattie, a women’s swimwear collection that launched in 2012. His aesthetic is “clean, uncomplicated and simple,” and he often finds inspiration on the road.
“When I do design research in Europe or Brazil, I don’t just look at swimwear,” he said. “I go to art museums. I look at jewelry.”
Rose Brantley, founding chairwoman of fashion design at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where Beattie trained, said her former student can move easily from one medium to another.
“Design principles show up in fashion as well as architecture,” she said. “It might mean creating a focal point to lead the eye or considering proportion. Thinking about proportions of plants isn’t any different than proportions in sportswear.”
Indeed, back in Beattie’s living room, the eye is drawn through ceiling-to-floor windows to the garden, the swimming pool and the Arroyo’s wild landscape beyond. The free-flowing living and dining areas connect with the kitchen, renovated this year, to form the top of the house’s T-shaped footprint. Bedrooms, including one furnished as a home office, sit off a long, intersecting hallway.
Beattie replaced a closet that ran inside that hallway with a built-in bookcase and cabinetry that feels original to the house. He updated other parts of the interiors with a light hand, replacing original cork flooring and refinishing the existing beams, the tongue-and-groove ceiling, paneled walls and other millwork.
When it’s extra hot, Beattie heads to the swimming pool. The contractor who built it once knocked on the door to introduce himself. “He told me that the shape of the pool was supposed to be an abstract profile of a man’s face,” Beattie said. Restored and resurfaced, the pool has a new deck that cantilevers above the ravine and is walled in glass, allowing for hillside views. Festive groupings of planted containers come in California hues: poppy orange, ocean turquoise, lime green and sunny yellow.
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Garden design workshop to be held in Burnham-On-Sea this Saturday – Burnham-On
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September
11, 2013
Garden
design workshop to be held in Burnham-On-Sea this Saturday
An
award-winning garden designer will be sharing her advice at a
free workshop in Burnham-On-Sea this Saturday (September 14th).
Residents
can join Sarah Milner Simonds for an introduction to garden design
at Marine Cove on Burnham’s seafront between 10am and 12 mid-day.
Sarah
says: “The workshop is designed to help participants learn
how to use edible ornamentals to make your garden more productive.”
“No
experience of garden design is necessary – and you don’t have
to be good at drawing – all you need is an interest in your garden
and desire to make a change.”
The
workshop is part of the ‘Incredible Edible Somerset Open Gardens
Weekend’, a series of free events around the county designed to
show off Somersets edible assets, from community orchards
to home gardens, with a whole weekend of free workshops and plenty
of projects open to the public.
The weekend is a chance to learn new skills, pick up tips, tickle
your tastebuds and be inspired by community food growing in Somerset.
To
attend this workshop, arrive at Marine Cove by 10am, with a sketch
book, pencil and a pencil sharpener. Bring wear clothing suitable
for the weather. There is no need to pre-book.
Garden design skills in workshop fun
LONDON – AUGUST 18: Community gardener Sarah Milner-Simonds tends to chickens being kept on her allotment in Ealing on August 18, 2009 in London, England. BQ, Britain’s largest DIY retailer, has seen sales of its chicken coops treble over the last year. Reasons for the increase in chicken keeping have been attributed to consumers adopting self-sufficiency as a means of beating the credit crisis as well as gaining greater confidence in the quality and welfare of their food. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Sarah Milner-Simonds
Alex Evans, Reporter
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
8:00 PM
A DESIGN workshop aiming to spread gardening skills is set for a Somerset town this weekend.
Sarah Milner Simonds
The workshop, held at Marine Cove in Burnham on Saturday from 10am to noon, will be held by award-winning garden designer Sarah Milner Simonds.
She said: “The workshop is designed to help participants learn how to use edible ornamentals to make your garden more productive.
“No experience of garden design is necessary, all you need is an interest in your garden and desire to make a change”.
Those interested in taking part are asked to bring a sketch book, pencil and sharpener.
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Garden design workshop to be held in Marine Cove this weekend
Garden design workshop to be held in Marine Cove this weekend
10:23am Wednesday 11th September 2013 in News
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GREEN fingered residents can join an accessible garden design workshop in Marine Cove.
Award-winning garden designer Sarah Milner Simonds will host the ‘introduction to garden design’ workshop on September 14 from 10am to 12noon.
Sarah said: “The workshop is designed to help participants learn how to use edible ornamentals to make your garden more productive.
“No experience of garden design is necessary, and you don’t have to be good at drawing, all you need is an interest in your garden and desire to make a change.”
This workshop is part of the Incredible Edible Somerset Open Gardens Weekend, a series of free events around the county designed to show off Somerset’s edible assets.
To attend the workshop, arrive at Marine Cove (TA8 2QA) by 10am, with a sketch book, pencil and a pencil sharpener. Wear suitable gardening clothing. There is no need to pre-book.
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Dig ‘n’ Design Garden Club to meet Thursday
Posted: Monday, September 9, 2013 11:49 am
Dig ‘n’ Design Garden Club is beginning its 51st year in a new location—the El Lago Community Center at City Hall on Tallowood Drive in El Lago. The first meeting of the club year will be on Thursday, September 12th, at 9:30 a.m. The Appreciation and Growing of Begonias is the topic of the day. Our climate is especially ideal for these plants, and varieties are profuse.
In addition to the program, a slide show of the 50th Anniversary celebration at Carothers Coastal Gardens this past May will be presented. Honored at this event were: Sylvia Kinzler (charter member of 50 years) of Timber Cove, Taylor Lake Village; Peggy Beaty (47 years) of Morgan’s Point; Fay Stelly (46 years) of League City; and Shirley Brasseaux (33 years) of El Lago. All four of these women were presented with proclamations from their respective cities congratulating them on their many years of service to the club and the communities and declaring May 9th as “Dig ‘n Design Garden Club Day”.
A number of soon-to-be-future Dig ‘n Design members first began meeting with the Webster Garden Club, which was self-limited to 30 members. El Lago members, in consideration of member limits and driving distance, formed the El Lago area club in 1963. Today members reside in El Lago, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook, Morgan’s Point, League City, Clear Lake City, and Katy.
The club objective is to encourage interest in all phases of home gardening and to promote better horticultural practices, civic beauty, and conservation of natural resources.
Dig ‘n Design gathers at 9:30 a.m. the 2nd Thursday, September through May, at El Lago Community Center at City Hall, 411 Tallowood Drive, El Lago, Texas. All are welcome!
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Covington Garden Club plans to ‘Plant, Grow, Design and Share’: Northshore …
“Plant, Grow, Design and Share” were thematically targeted by the Covington Garden Club for the 2013-2014 season. President Rebecca Weems extended a special welcome to new members at the meeting which was held at Christ Church Parish House on Sept. 5.
Connie Moore gave horticulture hints on readying a garden for fall, and Suzie Roux spoke about Blue Jays, the first responders in the bird world to alert others to danger.
Darla Boudreaux described her floral arrangement in the Creative Line Design category.
Following the meeting, all enjoyed a delicious spread of food prepared by Chairwoman Carolyn Pearce and hostess committee members Clara Marion, Mary Broussard, Beth Drown, Barbara Henry, Evelyn Talley and Lorraine Pendleton.
In addition to Weems, officers are Betty Plummer, first vice president; Darla Boudreaux, second vice president; Lynn Di Vincent, recording secretary; Marianne Boyer, corresponding secretary; Kyle Martin, treasurer; Donna Moran, parliamentarian, and Carolyn Pearce, membership.
The Covington Garden Club meets on the first Thursday of each month. For more information, call Carolyn Pearce at 892.0259.
News about west St. Tammany social events may be provided to Elizabeth Moore at fleurdelizabeth@gmail.com; 985.893.0612; or by mail to 20490 Johnsen Crossing, Covington, LA 70435.
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Students help design and build community gardens
By participating in the “Gardening the Garden State” internship this summer, students from the Department of Landscape Architecture refined their skills while giving back to the New Brunswick community.
Interns worked at Shiloh Community Garden on Tabernacle Way and Esperanza Community Garden on Jones Street, said Laura J. Lawson, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture.
They met with community gardeners and organizers to discuss how their gardens would work and what they needed.
“Students learned how to talk with and listen to needs from the gardeners themselves,” she said. “They saw the difference between a design proposal and what gets built, while the community received technical assistance in the form of design ideas and actual built site furniture.”
Shiloh Community Garden asked the students to redesign the gardens in a way that gives more space for plants as well as a relaxation area and furniture, said Luke Drake, manager of the Community Garden research project.
Kristine Kopia, an intern on the project, said students designed and built a bench, two tables and an Adirondack-style chair for visitors to sit in the shade.
Drake, manager of “Gardening the Garden State,” said Esperanza Community Garden was named after the Spanish word for “hope.” Interns were assigned to create a children’s area for the garden.
Kopia, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences graduate student, said when designing the garden, she used elements in the space to stimulate all five senses.
“We also created a more formal path into the garden as a way to grab people’s attention and create an interest in visiting the garden as they are walking or driving down the street,” she said.
Drake said the internship aimed to allow students to apply their skills learned in the classroom as well as interact with a community and its needs.
Kopia said she and her partners spent a great deal of time talking to the people at the gardens and getting to know them, which helped the students notice the true needs of the community.
“I definitely gained a lot of valuable experience,” Kopia said. “Talking to and designing for real clients is a much different experience that designing for professors. These clients saw our design through a gardener’s lens, which taught me how to better communicate my design to people who are not landscape architects.”
Lawson said the internship stressed the process of transitioning from the hypothetical design process to the rendering of the actual product.
“The students at ‘Gardening the Garden State’ have all been through our studio sequence,” Lawson said. “They have designed many spaces at the propositional or hypothetical level. The internship stressed the application of design thinking to an actual site, with a responsibility to be sure that the design could be built.”
The “Gardening the Garden State” project runs on an $18,000 Community University Partnership Grant, she said.
The internship itself is part of a larger project to document urban agriculture projects across New Jersey and gain more information on gardens and gardening projects in those areas, Drake said.
Lawson said the internship was a success, and therefore the start of an ongoing project.
“We will continue to work with the community gardens to complete some of the ideas that were developed by the interns,” she said.
Kopia said the interns felt proactive in giving back to the community while gaining valuable professional experience.
“The other interns and I were able to give the gardens what they wanted,” Kopia said. “We formed a good relationship with them and our professors, and I learned a lot about community garden design and urban agriculture.”