01 · Pre-construction & planning
Maintainability review of planting plans, species advice, staging input and water-budget conversations — before the first truck rolls onto site.
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Program-awareBuilt around your project Gantt
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EstablishmentWater + maintenance from day one
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DefectsMaintenance period covered
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4Operational depots across SEQ
Why builders & project teams choose Rivercity
Landscape isn’t the side of a project — it’s the bit council signs off last.
On a developer site, landscape sits between civil finishing and council on-maintenance — which means it’s the work most likely to cop the program compression, the late spec change and the “can you also water it for six months?” conversation. Doing it well is what stops a handover from becoming a replant.
Rivercity Environmental runs developer-side landscape, planting, establishment water, tree protection and defects-period maintenance from depots in Slacks Creek, Lawnton, Molendinar and Bundamba. We’ve worked alongside head contractors and project teams on estate streetscapes, biofilter basins, parkland handovers, foreshore POS, drainage easements and civil corridor planting across SEQ.
We come with the paperwork principal contractors expect — ISO 9001, 14001 and 4801, QBCC licensing, QAA membership and current insurances — plus the fleet to back the program: tippers, vac, water cartage, planting crews and arborists out of the closest depot.
How we plug in
Eight points in your project we’re built to support.
From pre-construction planting advice through to on-maintenance / off-maintenance handover — we slot into the project program rather than asking it to bend around us.
02 · Tree protection & clearing
TPZ fencing, root-zone protection and arborist sign-off for retained trees, plus coordinated clearing within approved vegetation envelopes.
03 · Bulk landscape construction
Garden bed prep, kerb & channel softscape, mass mulching, hard & softscape interfaces, paving edges and structural planting beds.
04 · Mass planting & turf
Tree, shrub and groundcover installation, hydromulching and turf laying across estates, streetscapes, civil corridors and POS handover areas.
05 · Establishment water
Potable and non-potable water cartage on a documented schedule through the critical first 8–26 weeks — the difference between handover and replant.
06 · Maintenance & defects
Mowing, weeding, replant of failures, tree formative pruning and presentation through the maintenance / defects liability period to council standard.
07 · Handover documentation
As-built planting records, watering logs, replacement schedules, GPS tree data and photo packs — ready for the on-maintenance / off-maintenance sign-off.
08 · Reactive & project support
Vac excavation around services, traffic-managed callouts, fleet support and reactive crews when the program shifts or weather rewrites the week.
What we deliver
Eight developer-side scopes — bundled under one account.
Bulk construction, mass planting, water, vac, tree protection and defects-period maintenance — one ops contact, one set of paperwork, one fleet behind the program.
Bulk landscape construction
Garden bed construction, mass mulching, hard & softscape interface, paving edges, basin softscape and council-spec streetscape build.
Mass planting & revegetation
Tree, shrub, groundcover and tubestock installation at volume — estates, streetscapes, biofilter basins, easements and revegetation areas.
Turf, hydromulch & finishes
Turf laying, hydromulching and surface finishes across POS, road reserves, parkland handovers and presentation-ready frontages.
Establishment water cartage
Documented watering schedules through the establishment period — tankered water where mains, dripper or temporary supply isn’t practical.
Tree protection & arborist
Certified arborist sign-off, TPZ fencing, root-zone protection plans, retained-tree monitoring and pruning around build envelopes.
Vac excavation around services
Non-destructive digging around underground services for landscape pits, tree planting near utilities and root-zone investigations — DBYD-led.
Maintenance & defects period
Mowing, weeding, top-up mulch, replant of failures and presentation works through the on-maintenance / defects liability period.
Project fleet & logistics
Tippers, water trucks, vac units, mowers, chippers and TMP-ready light vehicles dispatched from the closest of four SEQ depots.
Establishment & handover
The reason landscape holds up after handover — the bit you don’t see on the plan.
Most developer landscape failures aren’t about installation — they’re about what happens in the eight, sixteen, twenty-six weeks after the last truck leaves. We schedule the watering, replace the failures, top up the mulch, formative-prune the trees and document every visit so the photo pack at sign-off tells the same story the council inspector sees on site. Establishment, defects and handover are one continuous job for us — not three separate quotes.
Day 1
Watering & care from planting day
Scheduled
Documented establishment programs
Tagged
GPS tree assets & planting records
Handover
Photo packs & sign-off ready
Safety & credentials
Prequal-ready paperwork — current, on file, ready to upload.
Built to slot into head-contractor prequalification, principal-contractor inductions and council on-maintenance sign-off — without the back-and-forth.
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ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & AS/NZS 4801
Certified Quality, Environment and OH&S management systems — audited via SAI Global and ready for a head-contractor prequal pack.
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QBCC + QAA accredited
Queensland Building & Construction Commission licensed; Queensland Arboricultural Association member — certified arborists on retained-tree and TPZ work.
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Public liability & workers cover
Insurances scaled to active construction sites and head-contractor inductions — certificates of currency on request.
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SWMS, JSEA & site inductions
Site-specific SWMS, JSEAs and traffic management plans — crews ready to take whatever site induction the principal contractor runs.
SEQ coverage
Crews close to your project site.
Four operational depots covering the major SEQ growth corridors — so planting days, water runs and reactive callouts don’t lose a half-day to travel.
Brisbane
Brisbane City Council
Gold Coast
Gold Coast City Council
Ipswich
City of Ipswich
Logan
Logan City Council
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay Region
Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast Council
Services we bring
Capabilities that pair with developer & construction work.
Developers & construction
Got a project program
across SEQ?
Talk to the Rivercity Environmental team about your project program, landscape spec, establishment expectations and handover requirements — we’ll work back from the on-maintenance date.
- Program-aware delivery
- Establishment + defects covered
- ISO + QBCC + QAA certified