Landscaping Services

Facilities Management works with United Irrigation & Landscaping to provide landscaping services to the campus. These services include:

• Mowing
• Tree trimming
• Replacement of trees, shrubs and flowers
• Weed control
• Irrigation
• Landscape construction

Please email any service requests to Derek Mahoney and facilities.ok@ubc.ca. An Archibus work request is not required.

Goals for campus landscape maintenance

• Reduce water use
• Reduce maintenance costs
• Ensure a beautiful and cohesive campus, four seasons of the year
• Ensure landscape is suited to the environment
  • Any non-native plants are adapted to the Okanagan climate and are non-invasive
• Create a closed-loop waste system, where landscape mulch is used to
  • create a natural mulch where it falls, or
  • create compost which is re-used on campus