BC Arboriculture
About
We offer you professional, practical, and accurate arboricultural advice across Melbourne and regional Victoria, within a range of sectors including commercial, domestic, and government.
Our small team of highly qualified consultants covers your arboricultural needs, from risk assessments to impact reports, management plans, and more.
Services
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Preliminary Tree Assessments
Preliminary Tree Assessments are a comprehensive review of trees on and adjacent to a site, assisting in the preparation of a development application. These assessments provide valuable information that assists in achieving final development design.Button -
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Arboricultural Impact Assessments
Impact Assessments are comprehensive reports that discuss the viability of retained trees at the design and review stage of a project. These reports follow the Preliminary Tree Assessment and are often required when lodging a development application with a responsible authority.Button -
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Tree Protection Management Plan and Project Arborist Supply
A Tree Protection Management Plan specifies how trees should be retained and protected throughout development. In addition to the management plan, BC Arboriculture offers project arborists to oversee site works where required.Button -
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Health, Condition, and Risk Assessments
Health, Condition, and Risk Assessments are detailed reports on the overall condition of trees, the level of risk they pose, and management techniques. These reports can be completed for single or multiple trees, and are often undertaken for schools, shopping centres, or sites that manage a large population of trees.Button -
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Aerial Inspection
ButtonAerial inspections provide an assessment of tree parts that cannot be observed from the ground. BC Arboriculture offers qualified climbing arborists who can access tree canopies.
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Internal Arborist Supply
We offer support to organisations that require arboricultural expertise within their urban forest teams.Button
Support services include, but are not limited to, operational management, planning referrals, assessing tree removal applications, contractor and works auditing, and tree inspections.
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Qualifications
Owner and Director of BC Arboriculture, Ben Caruso, is a qualified arborist (AQF Level 8) with significant experience managing the urban forest.
Having worked as a climbing and consulting arborist, municipal tree manager, and industry trainer and assessor, Ben has a well-established industry reputation.
Qualifications include:
- Graduate Certificate of Arboriculture
- Diploma of Arboriculture
- Certificate III of Arboriculture
- Certificate II ESI Powerline Vegetation Control
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification
- VALID Tree Risk Assessment Qualification
