ISO Standards
Graduate Landscapes hold a range of ISO certifications. We value having independent input into our processes and want to provide the highest level of service and compliance to our clients and their projects. ISO management systems help us evaluate and assess business processes to ensure we are adhering to the highest standards and criteria laid out by the governing bodies.
ISO14001 sets out requirements for organisations to improve their environmental performance and processes through an environmental management system. This ISO helps organisations identify, manage and monitor any environmental issues which may occur when undertaking work for their clients. Focussing on reducing waste and making efficient use of resources, ISO14001 gives assurance processes are environmentally friendly whilst meeting all the required criteria for compliance.
ISO 9000 is the world’s most renowned quality management standard with ISO9001 helping organisations to monitor, manage and continually improve. With a strong focus on the customer and their needs, it strives to exceed customer expectations creating more value for the customer. If your chosen contractor has ISO9001, you can rest assured all aspects of quality management have been thoroughly assessed and met throughout your project.
Finally, ensuring a contractor is meeting health and safety requirements is paramount, especially for any landscaping project. Gold standard ISO45001 reduces health and safety risks creating safer, improved working conditions for employees.
Sustainability
Graduate Landscapes are at the leading edge of sustainable landscaping. We have extensive knowledge and practical experience employing sustainable practices for both small and large housing developments.
The goal of sustainable landscapes design is to create equilibrium between environment, property, and residents. Simultaneously enhancing biodiversity, improving water quality, and promoting sustainable living. Sustainable landscapes are low impact, environmentally responsible, economically efficient, and socially beneficial.
Rather than creating conflict, sustainable landscapes are a harmonious and elegant solution. Key strategies for a sustainable landscape include, sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), water management, water conservation, sustainable materials, and sustainable planting.
As well as being talented horticulturalists Graduate Landscapes are an ISO certified landscaping company with highly effective project management. This level of project management is essential for successfully executing sustainable landscape projects. This involves managing budgets, scheduling, coordinating, and understanding the regulatory environment.
Biodiversity & Rewilding
As urbanization increases, the need to integrate biodiversity into landscape design has never been more important. It gives us the opportunity to create spaces that promote ecological health and human wellbeing. Biodiversity is possibly one of the most considered skills in a landscaping project. Graduate Landscapes have spent years cultivating the experience and knowledge that are crucial to producing a successful biodiverse project. We understand the principles of site analysis, plant selection, and spatial organization. A deep familiarity with local flora, fauna, and ecosystems is vital. A beautifully executed biodiverse landscape will create a symbiotic link between a development, the inhabitants, and the environment.
Rewilding is a more radical and large-scale conservation strategy aimed at restoring entire ecosystems to their natural, self-sustaining state. Focusing on returning the land and its biodiversity to a state where natural processes can operate without human interference. Graduate Landscapes have had the honour to work closely on the Knepp rewilding project in west Sussex. We also maintain a home-grown small scale experimental rewilding project on our premises.
Graduate Landscapes employ a wide range of tools for both biodiversity and rewilding projects that include site/biodiversity assessment, biodiversity net gain, native species / habitat restoration, biophilic design, natural succession, Wildlife Corridors, Minimal Intervention Practices, and Plant Community Dynamics.
