Commercial General Contractor Support in the San Francisco Bay Area
Tree protection, site clearance, and landscape support for general contractors, developers, and public works projects.
Integrated Arborist and Landscape Support for Commercial Construction Projects
Commercial construction projects require coordinated, site-ready arborist and landscape support that aligns with timelines, permitting requirements, and regulatory compliance. Arborist Now partners directly with general contractors, developers, and project managers to deliver professional tree protection, site preparation, and landscape implementation services across the San Francisco Bay Area.
From pre-construction assessments and arborist reports to on-site monitoring and post-construction landscape stabilization, our team works as an integrated extension of your project operations.
Integrated Commercial Support for Construction Projects
Arborist Now provides professional, construction-ready support for general contractors across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our team integrates certified arborist services, commercial landscape operations, and in-house urban wood milling to support active job sites, development projects, and public works environments.
This page outlines how Arborist Now functions as a commercial subcontractor partner—delivering technical expertise, operational reliability, and clear documentation aligned with construction workflows.
Prevailing wage and public works projects
Arborist Now is prevailing wage ready, which matters if any part of your project is publicly funded. Schools, municipal work, transit, affordable housing, and anything with public money attached carries prevailing wage requirements and certified payroll reporting — and most tree services cannot take that work because they are not set up to administer it.
For a general contractor, that usually means finding out late that the arborist scope on a public job has to go to a different subcontractor than the one used on private work. Arborist Now handles both, so the same team can carry across a portfolio regardless of funding source.
Certified payroll, licensing documentation, and insurance certificates are provided as part of onboarding rather than chased down after the fact.
Tree Services for General Contractors
On a construction site the arborist scope is usually driven by the permit, not by the trees. A planning condition requires a protection plan, a demolition sequence requires clearance, or an inspector wants documentation before grading starts. Arborist Now works to those requirements directly, so the scope matches what the project actually has to satisfy.
Our arborist division delivers compliance-driven, construction-ready tree services, including:
- Arborist reports for permitting across Bay Area jurisdictions
- Hazard removals and jobsite safety clearances
- Pruning, canopy lifts, and structure clearances for equipment access
- Pre-construction tree evaluations and root-zone mapping
- Site safety assessments before demolition or grading
- Tree protection planning and on-site monitoring
Tree protection during construction
Most construction damage to trees is not caused by hitting them. It is caused by compacting the root zone with vehicle traffic, cutting roots during trenching, or changing the grade around the trunk — none of which shows above ground until a season or two after the project closes out, when the tree starts declining and nobody remembers why.
Arborist Now establishes protection zones before mobilisation, specifies fencing and access restrictions, and monitors through the build. Where a root zone has to be entered, we work out how with the site team rather than discovering it after a trench is open.
The documentation matters as much as the fencing. Photographed conditions before, during, and after protect the contractor as much as the tree — when a neighbour, a city inspector, or a future owner raises a question about a tree on the site, the record is what settles it.
Landscaping and Site Support
Landscape scope on a construction project is usually the last thing on the schedule and the first thing to slip. Arborist Now handles installation, soil preparation, irrigation, and stabilization as part of closeout rather than as a separate mobilization, which is generally what keeps it from becoming the item holding up final sign-off. |
Our commercial landscape division supports construction and prevailing wage projects with:
- Commercial and prevailing wage landscape installation
- Planting, restoration, soil preparation, and irrigation assistance
- Seasonal or ongoing commercial maintenance
- Erosion-control plantings and stabilization
- Sod, mulch, and softscape installation for closeout
Custom Milling and Urban Wood
When trees come off a site during construction, the wood is usually chipped and hauled. On projects with a sustainability requirement, or where a designer wants material with provenance, it can go the other way — milled on site or at our yard and returned as slabs, benches, or millwork for the finished building. It has to be decided before the removal, though; how a tree is felled determines what can be cut from it.
For projects requiring spec-driven or sustainable material solutions, our milling division provides:
- Live-edge slabs, benches, mantles, and custom pieces
- Urban wood products for builders and designers
- Milling from trees removed directly from active job sites
- Salvage-to-finished-product solutions for sustainable builds
Why Contractors Work with Arborist Now
The recurring problem with tree scope on construction projects is that it sits between trades. It is not landscape, not demolition, not civil, and it usually surfaces when a permit condition or an inspector makes it urgent. Arborist Now is set up to absorb it — one subcontractor covering assessment, protection, removal, landscape, and milling, coordinating directly with the superintendent rather than through a chain. |
General contractors partner with Arborist Now because we operate as a true commercial support team:
- Fast estimating and onboarding
- Fully insured, licensed, and prevailing wage ready
- Certified arborists for reports and compliance
- Integration across arborist, landscape, PHC, and milling divisions
- Consistent communication at each project phase
- Ability to coordinate directly with superintendents and project managers
Commercial Readiness and Compliance
Arborist Now is structured for professional project environments:
- ISA-Certified Arborists on staff
- Licensed (CA 961415), insured, and CTSP #03302 certified
- Prevailing wage ready with certified payroll administration
- Certificates of insurance provided, additional insureds named on request
- Safety-trained crews and equipment for active job sites
- Permitting documentation and municipal coordination
- Site access, staging, and mobilisation planning
- Working Bay Area commercial and public works projects since 2010
How We Support Commercial Projects
Arborist Now onboards the way other subcontractors on your project do — scope reviewed against the drawings and the permit conditions, documentation supplied upfront, and a named point of contact who talks to the superintendent directly. The process below is the sequence, but the short version is that we work to your schedule rather than asking you to work around ours. |
Our commercial support process is designed for construction workflows:
- Project intake and scope review
- Site evaluation and compliance assessment
- Service coordination across divisions
- Scheduling and mobilization
- On-site execution and monitoring
- Documentation and close-out
General contractor support FAQs
Are you prevailing wage ready?
Yes. Arborist Now is set up for prevailing wage projects including certified payroll administration, which means the same team can carry across publicly funded and private work. Most tree services cannot take public works scope for exactly this reason.
Can you provide certificates of insurance and name additional insureds?
Yes. Arborist Now provides certificates of insurance as part of onboarding and can name additional insureds where the contract requires it. Licensing documentation is supplied at the same time rather than chased later.
Do you write arborist reports for permitting?
Yes. Arborist Now produces arborist reports, tree protection plans, and pre-construction evaluations for permitting across Bay Area jurisdictions. Tell us which agency is reviewing and the report is written to that specification.
How early should we bring you into a project?
During planning, before the site is mobilised. Root zone damage from compaction, trenching, and grade changes is usually irreversible by the time it is visible, and protection zones cost almost nothing to establish before equipment arrives compared with what a dead mature tree costs to resolve afterward.
Can you coordinate directly with our superintendent?
Yes. Arborist Now assigns a point of contact who works directly with the superintendent or project manager rather than routing communication through an office. On active sites that is usually the difference between scope being absorbed and scope becoming a delay.
Do you handle landscape installation as well as tree work?
Yes. Arborist Now covers planting, soil preparation, irrigation assistance, erosion control, and softscape installation for closeout, alongside the arborist scope. One subcontractor across both means no gap between the two.
What happens to trees removed from the site?
They can be chipped and hauled, or milled and returned as usable material — slabs, benches, or millwork for the finished project. Arborist Now runs its own milling operation, so this is decided during planning rather than after the tree is on the ground. How a tree is felled determines what can be cut from it.
Who is responsible for permits on construction tree work?
Permits are the property owner’s responsibility to obtain. Arborist Now identifies during the site evaluation whether any tree falls into a regulated category in San Francisco and prepares the arborist documentation an application requires.