ABSTRACT
Q35 LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE
LONG-TERM MAINTENANCE
Preamble: Long-term landscape
maintenance
Maintenance on long-term contracts differs in
cost from that of maintenance as part of a
landscape contract. In this section the contract
period is generally 3-5 years. Staff are generally allocated to a single project only and
therefore productivity is higher whilst overhead
costs are lower. Labour costs in this section
are lower than the costs used in other parts of
the book. Machinery is assumed to be leased
over a five year period and written off over the
same period. The costs of maintenance and
consumables for the various machinery types
have been included in the information that
follows. Finance costs for the machinery have
not been allowed for.
