LANDSCAPE AND GROUNDS MAINTENANCE


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When you scale things up, even the simplest tasks can start to become complex. It’s a truth that is immediately recognised by any successful property manager - and especially apparent in grounds maintenance, explains GRITIT.


With multiple sites to manage, everyday tasks such as keeping lawns cut, hedges trimmed or trees regularly inspected to ensure safety cascade into a substantial facilities management challenge. As a result, this is an area where the traditional craft of caring for landscapes is now benefiting from some of the most modern business disciplines and even the application of data driven technologies.


There’s a tipping point very early on when property managers realise that the task of grounds maintenance starts to exceed the ability to manage in house. Although


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maintenance teams can usually take care of basics such as work orders and regular site management services, many essential grounds services usually require operators with specialist equipment, materials, training and skills. For most individual sites, it’s simply uneconomical to budget for this in house, and hence the focus is usually on the procurement of external contractors.


From a practical and economic point of view, bringing on board local gardeners and contractors can be an affordable and straightforward way to offload the


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