Architects & designers

Seven council eucalypts along the boundary and a new house going in. A 14-metre root mapping trench found only two structural roots, so the driveway could go ahead with the trees protected.

Two driveways becoming one beside three council brush boxes. We set the protection zones the drawings had to show and the root mapping the new driveway needed.

Before a major rebuild we assessed every tree, kept eleven behind proper protection, and cleared out the weeds and declining trees.

We measured how much of each tree's root area the new basement would take. The amended design cut that by as much as three quarters, and the canopy pruning from about a third to about a ninth.