Logistics & Access Risk on Construction Sites

Landscaping is frequently delivered under the most constrained conditions of the programme: restricted access, limited storage, multiple concurrent trades, and pressure to achieve inspection-ready finishes quickly. The commercial and safety risk is rarely the landscaping scope itself — it is interface failure caused by unmanaged logistics.

Logistics and access planning should govern:

• delivery routes, offload points, and storage zones
• plant selection and ground bearing constraints
• protection of finished surfaces and formation layers
• interface timing with civils, M&E, façades, and scaffold removal
• maintaining safe pedestrian routes and emergency access
• segregation and safeguarding controls on live/occupied sites

A governed logistics approach reduces damage, avoids abortive works, and improves programme certainty by ensuring landscaping is installed at the right point — not simply the