Putting Tree Protection In A Contractor Scope Of Work

The property, in practice. Garland's civil penalty provision names the property owner alongside the person carrying out the activity, and reaches anyone who allows or suffers it. So the city's question is answered at the site rather than at the subcontractor who did the work.

Frisco assigns it to the owner in terms: protective fencing installed by the owner, and inspected before the pre-construction meeting or the grading permit. Whoever physically installs it, the ordinance is looking at the owner, which makes it a scope item to allocate deliberately rather than assume.

Where the protection goes and by what standard, who installs it and by when, who books the inspection, what happens inside the protected area, which activities are prohibited there, and what condition preserved trees are handed back in. Each of those is a place a project goes wrong when it's left implied.

As a line item with a measurable extent, because it has one. The protected area is calculable from trunk measurements, the fencing has a specification, and the inspection has a date. Bundled into general preliminaries it becomes the first thing squeezed and the last thing anyone checks.

Nothing physical, which is why the scope matters. Where a city bars using the protected area for parking, equipment, material storage or chemical wash-out, those are four separate site habits that need naming in the contract. Wash-out in particular gets sited on the day by whoever needs it.

That's a contractual question, and it depends on what the contract said. The city's penalty and the recovery are two separate processes running on different timescales, and the second one is much easier where the obligations were written down and the protection was documented as installed.

It usually does show later, which is the difficulty. Dallas writes a five-year decline standard into its ordinance for exactly that reason. A contract that ends at practical completion with no record of tree condition leaves nothing to argue from when a preserved tree fails two summers on.

Dated photographs of the protection in place during the works, the condition of each preserved tree at completion, a note of what was planted under what obligation, and the date any survival period ends. It costs almost nothing at the time and it's the only version of events that will still exist in three years.