Technical support shaped around your role.

Landscape contractors

Practical details, complete product packages and dependable supply for landscape contractors.

Common project questions

• What surface finish, traffic and service life are required?
• Are the formation, levels, drainage route and edge conditions known?
• Which interfaces, quantities and installation details need resolving before work starts?
• What must arrive on site, and in what sequence, to suit the programme?

Relevant CORE applications

• Car parks
• Edging
• Tree root protection (CORE TRP)
• Embankments
• Roofs & podiums

Where specialist design sits

CORE can help select compatible components, review the proposed build-up and prepare product information. Ground-bearing, structural, hydraulic and arboricultural design must remain with the appropriately qualified project professionals where those disciplines are involved.

Landscape architects & specifiers

Clear technical information and hands-on support from early design through to tender.

Common project questions

• What outcome, loading, design life and finish must the system achieve?
• Which ground, drainage, level and interface information is available?
• What drawings, clauses, product data and submittals will the tender require?
• Who owns each design decision, review and approval?

Relevant CORE applications

• Sub-base reinforcement
• Tree root protection (CORE TRP)
• Car parks
• Drainage
• Roofs & podiums
• Edging

Where specialist design sits

CORE supports product selection, system coordination and specification information. This does not replace project-specific geotechnical, structural, hydraulic, waterproofing or arboricultural design, nor acceptance by the relevant approving body.

Civil & groundworks

Ground, access and water systems selected around loading, formation and programme.

Common project questions

• What is known about the formation, ground strength and groundwater?
• Which vehicles, plant, axle loads and traffic repetitions are expected?
• How will levels, drainage, aggregate and edge restraint work together?
• Is the works area temporary, permanent or part of a safety-critical platform?

Relevant CORE applications

• Sub-base reinforcement
• Site access
• Drainage
• Embankments
• Car parks

Where specialist design sits

CORE can review product functions and the information needed for a proposed build-up. Working platforms, exceptional loads, global slope stability and engineered water systems require project-specific design by suitably qualified specialists.

Developers & main contractors

Technical advice, project quantities and nationwide supply from one experienced team.

Common project questions

• Which planning conditions, approvals and employer's requirements affect the external works?
• What traffic, drainage, retained-tree, roof or public-realm constraints are already known?
• Who will own, inspect and maintain the completed system?
• When are design information, samples, quantities and supply needed?

Relevant CORE applications

• Car parks
• Tree root protection (CORE TRP)
• Drainage
• Roofs & podiums
• Edging

Where specialist design sits

CORE can help the project team compare application routes, coordinate product information and plan supply. Statutory approvals and the duties of the appointed designers, principal contractor and specialist consultants remain with those parties.

Public realm & local authority

Durable interfaces, permeable surfaces and tree-sensitive solutions for long-term public use.

Common project questions

• What pedestrian, cycle, maintenance and occasional vehicle use is expected?
• Are accessibility, retained trees, drainage and long-term maintenance addressed together?
• How do paving, resin, asphalt, planting and level changes meet at each edge?
• Which details and evidence will the client or approving authority need?

Relevant CORE applications

• Tree root protection (CORE TRP)
• Car parks
• Edging
• Drainage

Where specialist design sits

CORE can support surface, edge, root-protection and drainage product selection. Accessibility decisions, adoptable works, structural and hydraulic design, and arboricultural approval remain with the appointed project team and approving authority.

Arboriculture & planning

Project review around RPA constraints, levels, traffic and the wider no-dig build-up.

Common project questions

• Is there an arboricultural report and an agreed root protection area plan?
• What are the existing and proposed levels, and where is excavation restricted?
• Which vehicles, surface finish, permeability and design life are proposed?
• How will edges, drainage, installation access and site supervision avoid root disturbance?

Relevant CORE applications

• Tree root protection (CORE TRP)
• Site access
• Car parks
• Edging

Where specialist design sits

CORE can review the product layers and information needed for a no-dig proposal. The project arboriculturist and relevant approving authority must determine whether the proposal is acceptable; product advice is not arboricultural approval.

Utilities & renewables

Access routes and working areas for remote, temporary and operational environments.

Common project questions

• What is known about the route, formation, gradients and seasonal ground conditions?
• Which construction and maintenance vehicles will use the access, and how often?
• Is the route temporary, permanent or expected to be reinstated?
• Are drainage, remote delivery, turning areas or high-load working zones involved?

Relevant CORE applications

• Site access
• Sub-base reinforcement
• Embankments
• Drainage

Where specialist design sits

CORE can help identify suitable reinforcement, confinement and drainage product roles. Working platforms, crane or exceptional loading, global slope stability and engineered drainage require design and sign-off by the relevant qualified specialists.

Roof, podium & specialist landscape

Drainage, protection and finish coordination over waterproofed structures.

Common project questions

• Which waterproofing and protection systems are specified, and are the layers compatible?
• Where are the falls, outlets, thresholds, penetrations and inspection points?
• What load allowance and construction depth are available?
• What finish, planting, access and maintenance regime must the build-up support?

Relevant CORE applications

• Roofs & podiums
• Drainage
• Edging

Where specialist design sits

CORE can support drainage-layer, protection and landscape-interface coordination. Waterproofing design and warranty, structural loading and the roof drainage strategy remain with the relevant system providers and appointed designers.