How Landscaping Can Keep Your Build Project On Schedule

Staying on schedule is naturally one of the top regular priorities for homebuilders and their clients, and there are a few different approaches or resources you might utilize to help keep you on schedule. One assist here that isn’t always considered: How basic landscaping services from top professional landscapers can help an entire home build project stick to its schedule in subtle ways.

At Wright Landscaping, we’re proud to serve as the top landscaping company around Salt Lake City, Layton, Kaysville and nearby areas of northern Utah. We offer a huge range of landscape design, build and maintenance services, including for homebuilders and their clients. We regularly work with and around homebuilder schedules, tailoring our solutions to these timelines – and here are some of the ways these partnerships can help keep the entire project on track.

Coordinating Build and Landscaping Schedules

For many new home build projects, coordinating the build and landscaping schedules is a helpful approach in multiple ways:

• Ensures sell readiness: When the home construction process is near completion, homebuilders naturally want to move the project into its next phase to be sold. If landscaping elements are behind schedule or not yet started, however, this can delay the overall sell time for the project. By coordinating build and landscaping schedules, homebuilders can ensure that the property is fully ready to be put on the market.
• Keeps project momentum: When there are multiple subcontractors involved in a project (e.g. builders, landscapers, electricians), it’s important to keep everyone on the same page and working together to avoid delays or miscommunications. Coordinated scheduling ensures that each party knows when their portion of work needs to be completed and allows for smoother transitions between phases of the project.
• Budget management: By having clear timelines and coordination between build and landscaping schedules, homebuilders can better manage their budget for these projects. This allows for more accurate cost projections, helping to avoid unexpected expenses and potential project delays.
• Quality control: Another benefit of scheduling and coordination is that it helps to maintain quality control throughout the build process. By having a clear timeline and set deadlines, builders are able to ensure that each phase of the project meets their high standards and any issues can be addressed in a timely manner.
• Efficiency: Coordinated schedules also lead to increased efficiency in the building process. With each party knowing when they need to be on site and completing their tasks, there is less waiting time or idle periods which can cause delays. This also results in overall faster completion times for the project.

Giving Clients Visible Progress Signs

In certain parts of the building process, showcasing progress visibly to clients can be a bit of a challenge. Take electrical connections, for instance – because so many of these are behind walls and hidden from view, clients can often feel like not much is happening even though a lot of work is actually being done.

Keeping your landscaping schedule coordinated with the overall build, however, helps offer regular, periodic visual examples of the progress taking place. For example, clients will easily notice landscaping progress like new flower beds or a gorgeous new walkway that’s been implemented since their last visit – and this will help set them at ease that the overall project is moving along smoothly.

Touching Off a Finished Product

As you near the end of your homebuilding project, one of the primary goals for any homeowner is ensuring that the aesthetics and visual appeal of the new property is optimal before it hits the market. Landscaping offers several ways to create or assist with these finishing touches:

• Flower beds and shrubs near entry: Some of the most common places that homeowners consider when adding landscaping touches are around the primary entrance of the home. By using different species and colors, you may create warm and inviting flower beds or optical illusions with shrubs.
• Outdoor living spaces: One significant benefit of carefully planned landscaping is to create outdoor entertaining areas. Well-designed patios, terraces, or decks can dramatically increase the quality of living space.
• Retaining walls: Another great way to add character to a property is by installing retaining walls in select locations. Not only do they offer practical support for hillsides and steep slopes; retaining walls also include a unique visual element for your home.

While they are often considered separately, coordinating landscaping and overall new home building schedules can be beneficial for the entire project. For more here, or to learn about any of our landscaping services around SLC, Layton, Kaysville and nearby parts of Utah, contact us at Wright Landscaping today!