Attendees will learn about the ANSI A300 standards and gain expertise in the use of written work specifications that follow accepted tree care industry standards. Increasingly, contracts for governmental, institutional and large commercial projects are specifying that tree care maintenance be performed according to ANSI A300 standards. Professional providers of tree services can use ANSI A300 written work specifications to distinguish their services and clarify work to be performed. Property owners and representatives contracting for tree services can request that bids be submitted with ANSI A300 compliant work specifications to help assure the use of accepted tree care practices. ISA-certified arborists agree in writing to perform all work to ANSI A300 standards.

Professionals who provide for or supervise the management of trees, shrubs and other woody landscape plants for businesses, government agencies, property owners, property managers and utilities should have a thorough grounding in ANSI A300, a set of voluntary, national industry consensus standards which unify and take authoritative precedence over all previously existing tree care industry standards in the U.S. The goal of ANSI A300 is to provide performance standards based on current research and sound practice for writing specifications to manage trees, shrubs and other woody plants. ANSI A300 has been developed and evolves with input from a committee of industry representatives. 

ANSI is the acronym for the American National Standards Institute, a 100+ year old nonprofit that oversees the development and use of thousands of norms and guidelines in nearly every industrial sector. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)

Florida DBPR Board of Landscape Architecture: Course #: 0011764

Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers: pending

FNGLA: 2 CEUs for FNGLA certified horticulture and landscape professionals.

ISA Certified Arborists: 2, TW Climber Specialist: 2, TW Aerial Lift Specialist: 2, Municipal Specialist: 2, BCMA-Management: 2
TOPICS COVERED

• Introduction to ANSI A300
• Pruning
• Soil Management
• Supplemental Support Systems
• Lightning Protection Systems
• Management of Trees and Shrubs During Site Planning
• Planting and Transplanting
• Integrated Vegetation Management
• Root Management Standard
• Tree Risk Assessment
• Integrated Pest Management

Fees: $50

This session is sponsored by the Native Plant Horticulture Foundation