Elements and Performance Criteria
- Collect and collate initial information
- Consult client and confirm objectives of assessment
- Source and verify site plans and maps
- Identify and acquire required resources
- Prepare base plan of the site and relevant surrounds
- Verify location, ownership and site boundaries
- Identify and record current land use and environmental threats and problems
- Identify and record covenants that could affect the project, design or report
- Determine climate and weather conditions from historical data
- Undertake initial site visit
- Meet site entry conditions and obtain approval if required
- Identify site hazards and assess risks for current visit
- Undertake site orientation
- Identify and record existing on-site and adjacent site features that may impact upon the project, plan or report objectives
- Identify, and measure and record or confirm site dimensions, levels and gradients
- Compile a site inventory
- Identify soil and growing media types, properties and relevant physical characteristics and record on-site inventory
- Record the species, health, age and location of vegetation
- Locate structural elements and confirm existing services and facilities
- Record the presence, location and extent of other relevant site constraints
- Sample areas of homogeneous soils and growing media to send for testing and analysis of soil content and contamination as requested by client or as required in the brief provided
- Determine the impact of development for trees on site
- Obtain the consulting arborist report to assess trees on site
- Determine and record tree protection zones
- Document the impact of proposed development on each tree
- Identify trees that are exempt from approval requirements
- Identify and locate on the site plan trees impacted by development, according to regulations applying in the local jurisdiction
- Include trees identified by the consulting arborist report as requiring pruning or removal in a development application
- Document a site assessment report
- Interpret soil and growing media tests results and analyse for further testing requirements
- Record specific recommendations of remedial action for site problems
- Formulate recommendations for appropriate risk controls of site hazards
- Store and maintain survey and assessment data
- Document site information
- Incorporate all relevant data into the assessment report in accordance with client needs and the requirements of relevant legislation and regulations
- Deliver a copy of the report to the client and advise the client of content and implications of the report