One of the most neglected site components in a new construction project - the trees - happen to be the hardest to replace. The damage caused by construction is often fatal to even the hardiest, and it is often years before a tree finally succumbs.
To the untrained eye a tree might appear to be healthy, but this may be because it is living off of stored reserves. Thus, purchasers of new buildings are rudely awakened when they find the once-beautiful large trees on their property dying a few years after they take possession. Buyers and sellers then seek to determine responsibility for compensation and remediation.
A more rational, cost-effective and environmentally responsible task is to preserve existing trees on development and redevelopment sites. Tree-preservation avoids costly legal proceedings, adds to re-sale value of property, and is just a good thing to do.
Heartwood Consulting Services offers our clients proven systems to accomplish this, and is able to work with the project-design, environmental, construction, and administrative teams from project-inception through completion and follow-up.
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