Service
Project Arborist Services
The named arborist on your approval — supervising works near retained trees, attending hold points, and signing off what council requires signed off.
Scoped against your construction programme — a fixed fee for a defined scope, or a retainer where hold points run across months.
Who this is for
- Builders whose approval names a project arborist as a condition
- Developers running works inside a Tree Protection Zone
- Civil contractors doing root-sensitive excavation or trenching
- Anyone needing arborist certification before a stage can be signed off
What you get
- Pre-construction site meeting and protection setup verification
- Attendance at nominated hold points through the programme
- Supervision of excavation and works within protection zones
- Root pruning direction and remedial specification on site
- Written site reports and photographic records for your compliance file
- Final certification and sign-off correspondence to council
Standards applied
Reports are prepared against the standards and instruments assessors expect to see referenced.
- AS 4970-2009 Protection of trees on development sites
- AS 4373-2007 Pruning of amenity trees
Project Arborist — questions
What does a project arborist actually do on site?
Attends the points in the programme where trees are at risk — protection setup, excavation near roots, service installation — directs how those works proceed, and documents that they were done correctly. The documentation is what satisfies your approval conditions.
How much project arborist supervision will I need?
It depends on how your conditions are written and how much of the works sit near retained trees. Send through your decision notice and you will get a realistic estimate of attendances up front, rather than an open-ended hourly commitment.
Can you take over as project arborist mid-project?
Yes, though the earlier the better. Coming in after an undocumented breach means assessing damage already done, which is a harder position than preventing it.
Related
Often needed alongside this
Tree Protection Plan
The drawing and specification that keeps retained trees alive through construction — and keeps you compliant with the conditions on your approval.
Read more →Arboricultural Impact Assessment
The report councils require when construction encroaches on the root zone of protected trees — what your build does to each tree, and what has to change.
Read more →Get started
Request a quote for project arborist
Tell us the property and what council has asked for. You will get a fixed price and a realistic timeframe — same business day.
- No obligation and no pressure
- Honest answer if you don't need the report
- Fixed price, quoted before any work begins
Enquire — Project Arborist
Tell us what you need and you will hear back same business day. No obligation, and a fixed price before any work starts.
Not sure what you need?
Describe the situation and you will get a straight answer about which report your council actually requires — including when the answer is that you do not need one.