Landscaping

Communicate with your landscape service provider to cultivate beautiful results.

The October 2020 issue looks at healthy, sustainable, resilient facilities, including mass notification, HVAC, green buildings, and more.

If your facility's not operating at its usual capacity, it may be more susceptible to infestation by rodents. Take these steps to protect it.

As more businesses are forced to temporarily shutter their storefronts, MaintenX International offers helpful hints for "dark store" maintenance.

Ruggedly built to jump gas and diesel engines, Crankenstein delivers 1,200 cranking amps and 5,000 peak amps for 12V systems and 600 cranking amps and 5,000 peak amps for 24V systems.

Thinking about maintaining your commercial property seasonally provides an effective blueprint for keeping your property looking good.

Facilities that implement creative green solutions enjoy stronger constructions, lower costs, and more sustainable futures.

Jersey Shore University Medical Center features two LiveWall Living Walls in the patient-centered design of HOPE Tower, its new outpatient facility.

In a recent survey of U.S. and UK workers, access to natural light was found to be an important factor in their level of job satisfaction.

From charging sales tax for landscaping services to how much to charge for a job, here are some popular discussions by the landscape professionals on LawnSite. Share your thoughts!

From handling extra jobs that pop up out of the blue to the impact of rainfall on your lawn care business, here are some popular discussions by the landscape professionals on LawnSite. Share your thoughts!

The national campaign is designed to attract students and career seekers to the landscape profession.

From marketing your lawn care business to applying fertilizer, here are some popular discussions by the landscape professionals on LawnSite. Share your thoughts!

The Hail Mary pass is extremely rare in football, but there's almost no equivalent for it in the workplace.

From Business Operations to Pesticide & Herbicide Application, here are some popular landscaping discussions on LawnSite forums this week.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is the West Coast's first LEED Platinum children's hospital and only the second children's hospital in the world to earn that status.

From Business Operations to Pesticide & Herbicide Application, here are some popular landscaping discussions on LawnSite forums this week.

LandscapeCard goes after smartphone homescreens to help green industry companies acquire new business and retain clients.

From Business Operations to Starting A Lawn Care Business, here are some popular landscaping and lawn care topics posted on the LawnSite forums this week.

The National Association of Landscape Professionals shares its forecast of landscape trends expected to impact planning, design, and maintenance.

HP Inc.’s Boise, ID property is the first corporate campus in the world to be certified using the SITES v2 rating system.

Designers of a LEED certified office park utilized an existing water vault as a centerpiece of drainage and irrigation.

Six ways to improve office facility management operations — and the employee/tenant experience in the meantime.

After more than four years of unrelenting drought, water rate hikes and usage restrictions are forcing businesses across California to rethink their landscaping.

A new approach to landscaping suburban office developments that integrates natural areas and provides more open, collaborative spaces can meet the demands of this next generation of office workers.

A long-term effort toward sustainable practices at the University of California, Davis delivers results.

Even the best laid sustainability initiatives can be foiled by unaware, unresponsive, or just plain unwilling occupants.

What do I do if my plant wants to reclaim cooling tower blowdown water and use it for the purposes of landscape irrigation?

Greener Groundskeeping: The SITES rating system aims to generate the sustainability and resiliency of landscapes.

The new projects join 23 others across the country that have achieved certification since June 2010 as SITES pilot projects. These diverse projects represent landscapes of various sizes, locations, types, and costs.

A facility management professional in the United Arab Emirates struggles to define hard service landscaping tenders.

Vetting landscape service providers ensures they add value to site maintenance plans. From the April 2013 issue.

A leak about as small as the tip of a ballpoint pen (or 1/32nd of an inch) can waste about 6,300 gallons of water per month. As the weather warms up and facility managers concentrate their attention on landscaping, sprinkler systems should come under scrutiny.

The standard, in part, will address the importance of safety in electrical devices in landscape irrigation controllers while establishing a basis to ensure the safety, function, and durability of common electrical devices.

Businesses should continue to be vigilant about keeping flying, biting insects at bay, even as the warm summer days draw to an end.

According to the original image, this is "Viagra's head office in Toronto, Canada. Seriously, it is!" At least according to the meme. Alas, this is not true. So where is this place and is the shrubbery placement significant? Turns out, the "unfortunate topiary" may indeed be fitting.

How do facility management professionals address specific landscaping issues that deal with ponds and marshes?

The saplings first took root on the site of what will become the new Mercy Hospital Joplin, and they’ll be returning there when the building is complete. While they’re just one small part of Mercy’s landscape design plan, they’re a very significant piece of it.

AASHE, a three year partner of the Arbor Day Foundation, is encouraging its member campuses to plant trees this spring.

I am working on a project that involves a constructed wetland for effluents, and I am in need of assistance with regard to pond or marsh landscaping.