Below is a brief cross-section of examples of consulting projects with which we have been involved in the past:

1. Private land-owners (home-owners):

• The majority of our clients are residential landowners who retain our services for:
• health assessments; tree risk assessment; tree preservation with respect to projects proposed or underway (many of which fall within the jurisdiction of the private tree by-law or the ravine control by-law); third party opinion with respect to damage to trees.

2. Government & Institutional:

• Queens Quay Music Gardens - tree assessment and management plan, fine pruning and preservation
• ROM Renaissance Project – primarily preservation of heritage White Oak in front of building; also inventory, assessment and construction phase management of trees on Philosopher’s Walk. (3 years)
• Law Society of Upper Canada (Osgoode Hall) – tree assessment and management plan, later a shade impact study associated with the proposed Opera Hall and Canada Life project.
• Metro Toronto Convention Centre Expansion (Central Park) – consult on required depth of soil in Roundhouse Park.
• Whitby Psychiatric Hospital – tree inventory and assessment.
• Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital and Kipling Reconstruction – tree inventory and assessment, tree preservation.
• CIBC Commerce Court – re-furbishing project – tree pits and tree sourcing and planting.
• Queen’s Park Veteran’s Memorial – initial tree inventory and assessment, prescription for and supervision of non-destructive daylighting operation to expose roots of existing trees to determine final configuration of memorial structures.
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Donwoods) – tree inventory and assessment.
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Queen Street) – tree inventory, assessment, and protection plan.
• Bridgepoint Health (Don Jail) – tree inventory and assessment, tree preservation and protection plan (3 years).
• Clarence Square Park, Toronto – tree inventory, assessment and urban forest plan.
• TTC, Kipling Subway Station Reconstruction – tree inventory, assessment and protection recommendations.
• Vaughan Civic Centre – tree inventory, assessment and protection plan.

3. Forensic & Tree Failure Analysis:

• Hamilton Police Services – RBG coroner’s inquest.
• Kelly vs. Town of Ingersoll – Ontario Court – (precedent-setting case).

4. Specifications:

• Metro Housing Authority – tree care specifications for all arboricultural operations.

5. Policy Development:

• Royal Botanical Gardens – Tree Risk Assessment Programme Policy and Procedures.

6. Street Tree Assessment:

• Saint John, NB (Manawagonish Road) –tree health and risk assessment of street trees.
• Town of Oakville - Conducted a pilot street tree inventory with GPS technology.

7. Street Re-construction:

• Towns of Cobourg, Whitby and Ajax – tree inventory and assessment, recommendations for preservation, prescriptions for excavation around trees.

8. Golf Courses:

• Toronto Hunt Club – annual tree risk assessment (1998-present).
• Rosedale Golf Club – tree management plan, tree nursery design and development project, course re-design (1995-2005).
• Markland Wood Country Club  – tree inventory, assessment, protection plan and ravine restoration plan.

9. Land Development and Re-development(residential):

• Donmount Court – Toronto Housing Corporation – street tree selection, street tree soil reservoir volumes and existing tree preservation and removal, OMB.
• 30+ subdivisions in GTA – tree inventories, vegetative assessments, tree preservation prescriptions, OMB. (1989 to 1995)