At idverde UK, we know that our customers' enjoyment of sport is enhanced and participant numbers increased when the facilities and playing surfaces are prepared and maintained to the highest possible standards. We have extensive experience of the maintenance of fine sports turf such as golf courses, bowling greens, cricket grounds and high standard football and rugby pitches, and are the UK supplier and installer of the innovative Mixto hybrid grass technology. On behalf of Sport Aberdeen we care for four high quality golf courses.
Our aim is to keep access roads, footpaths and car parks safe and passable during winter to keep our clients' premises open and safe for their employees, customers and members of the public, no matter what the weather conditions. We offer a winter gritting, snow ploughing and snow clearance service tailored to your specific site needs. We work with clients from all sectors, including schools, university campuses, hospitals, retail parks, industrial estates, social housing, car parks and roadways.
We deliver a range of grounds maintenance services to both public sector and private sector clients across the UK, including local authorities, housing associations, schools and universities, as well as commercial premises, such as business parks, retail premises, and industrial estates. Our high profile grounds maintenance customers include The Regent's Park, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Manchester City FC and the V&A Museum. To give some idea of scale, across our UK operations we cut 60 million m of grass, prune 1.2 million m of shrub beds, and maintain 1,500 football pitches, amongst many other services!
In addition to our considerable experience in managing external landscapes, we are also specialist interior landscapers providing a comprehensive range of bespoke interior plant solutions for events, businesses and public spaces. We work with private clients and businesses of every type and size, and provide a wide range of interior landscape services. Our specialist interior landscapers start off the process with a free, no obligation visit to discuss your requirements and the options available to you.
The idverde team are highly experienced in designing and delivering a wide range of parks, housing and public realm projects which include our landscaping services for hard and soft landscaping projects. As a multi-disciplinary team, we have the necessary expertise and experience to deliver landscape design projects from inception to completion. Our approach is based on creating spaces alongside clients and the communities that will use them enhancing biodiversity and habitats, providing opportunities to improve the well-being of local people whilst respecting local character and requirements.
Arboriculture, tree surgery and tree surveying require specialist skills, training and certification and present specific challenges both in terms of health and safety, community engagement and biodiversity. The industry is now further challenged, and with many pests and diseases threatening the trees in the UK, bio security has become a big topic. It is essential to manage your tree stock safely and at the same time, balance the practical, aesthetic and biodiversity considerations. In addition, our Dorset and Birmingham branches offer a wide range of arboricultural services to clients in their surrounding areas, and have Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor status.
Its aim is to improve standards of services to the bereaved by providing professionals, authorities and companies with Policy and Best Practice Guidance and Educational and Training programmes. The Landscape Group is a member of The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), the professional body which represents over 6,000 waste management professionals - predominantly in the UK but also overseas. The CIWM sets the professional standards for individuals working in the waste management industry and has various grades of membership determined by education, qualification and experience.
As part of idverde's ground maintenance services, we offer grass cutting services to a range of private and public sector clients across the UK, through our 140 depots. With over 100 years grass cutting experience, our teams can manage projects of different sizes. Getting the grass cutting wrong is the biggest source of complaints from the public, and with about a third of our business associated with grass cutting, investment in both staff and machinery is absolutely key to delivering an efficient and high quality service.
With a large highly skilled in-house resource capacity, our engineers have many years' experience in practical problem solving and project management for civil engineering work, both above and below the ground. Whether our clients are expanding infrastructure, rationalising assets or undertaking repairs or upgrades, we provide a full range of civil engineering support services. Working in and around our clients' high risk infrastructure requires highly effective risk and hazard planning and management as well as extreme care in the protection of assets.
Over the past decade, idverde UK has pioneered the delivery of combined 'Clean and Green' services to Local Authorities. We have demonstrated that in combining grounds maintenance with street cleaning services, clients can leverage the cost synergies that arise from the provision of multi-service contracts, without encountering the risks inherent in employing a non-specialist contractor on horticultural and landscapes maintenance services. We are therefore able to offer clients a truly best of both worlds solution in this regard.
Soft Landscaping works are carried out by our horticultural teams throughout the UK. All our directly employed operatives are qualified to the appropriate NVQ (Diploma) level in horticulture and are CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card holders, where appropriate. We also have an established Supply Chain which has passed the rigorous standards set out in our Quality Management Documents. Many Supply Chain members have worked with us over several years and are fully aware of the high standards that we and our clients require, and are regularly vetted on their performance.