Hard Landscape is often a larger portion of the cost associated with a project but contractors need to have a better understanding of costing projects  to avoid having their profits buried on paving projects

Contractors, Designers and Clients need to understand the important role landscape contracts play in underpinning quality, equity and profits and why their use and misuse is harming the sector.

As most external projects have an element of soft landscaping, a strategic approach to effective pricing of trees and shrubs for landscape works.

With improving conditions in the construction industry the financial reigns are slowly being released by clients and developers.

As the general economy has improved over the last number of months, hopefully all established landscape contractors are finding themselves busier than they have been over the last few years, with more enquiries coming in and a higher rate of conversion of these enquiries into actual projects.