01 / COORDINATION
Builders + construction teams
Work with builders and masons from early planning through installation, coordinating stone selection, field layout, grading, and construction details to carry the design into the landscape.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
From plan
to ground.
Continuity between site analysis, design, material sourcing, specialized consultants, construction, and the developing landscape.
Sweetfern Ecological Design
The right people.
One considered process.
Sweetfern works across disciplines to maintain ecological and design continuity as a project moves from the drawing into the field.
02 / COORDINATION
Engineers + conservation professionals
Coordinate with engineers, wetland professionals, surveyors, and conservation specialists on sensitive resources, drainage, erosion, restoration, mitigation, and permitting.
03 / COORDINATION
Arborists
Share location-based information about significant trees, health concerns, monitoring, pruning, construction protection, habitat trees, regeneration, and proposed planting.
04 / COORDINATION
Restoration specialists
Use mapped information to communicate invasive populations, treatment areas, priority and sensitive areas, access, prior treatments, restoration planting, and follow-up monitoring.
05 / COORDINATION
Specialized trades
Coordinate builders, excavators, masons, irrigation and lighting professionals, electricians, planting contractors, nurseries, and material suppliers to bring the plans into fruition with a chosen set of trusted professionals.
SHARED LOCATION-BASED PROJECT INFORMATION
One landscape.
One spatial framework.
A coordinated spatial record can connect surveying, design, implementation, contractor communication, restoration, and stewardship throughout the life of the property.
Locate
Share field locations, sensitive areas, significant trees, restoration plantings, and construction information.
Communicate
Give teams a common understanding of sequencing, protection, access, and the work occurring on the site.
Carry forward
Keep documentation useful for monitoring, contractor interfaces, future work, and long-term management.
INSTALLATION OVERSIGHT
Maintain the design intent
in the field.
Preconstruction
Layout, sequencing, access, protection, logistics, and coordination.
Hardscape + plant material sourcing
Source natural and reclaimed stone, paving, trees, shrubs, perennials, and seed. Coordinate specifications, availability, substitutions, and delivery with nurseries, suppliers, and contractors.
Field layout
Locate key design elements and adjust to actual field conditions where appropriate.
Installation coordination
Connect planting, grading, drainage, stonework, irrigation, lighting, restoration, and construction.
Design conformance
Observe work and communicate with contractors about landscape specifications and design intent.
Establishment
Guide the transition from construction into establishment and stewardship.