Valentine Gardens – Lake...

Root Director protects new hardscaped surfaces in Valentine Gardens estate

Root Director - Valentine Garden Project

Valentine Gardens is a residential estate located in the city of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Despite being a relatively new estate, its sidewalks were already developing trip hazards from tree roots lifting the slabs due to the secondary thickening effect of root development. Lake Macquarie City Council approached Citygreen wanting to trial different technologies for resolving this pavement uplift problem. The council opted for the Root Director solution and ordered 97 units of the RDC900 variant in 2015, then a further 43 units later that year to complete the project.

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Valentine Gardens Project

Kieran Bowd, of Lake Macquarie City Council, said, “The species of the trees originally planted in the estate was a poor choice and they had no root protection resulting in significant concrete uplift. With this project, we wanted to replace the existing damaged footpath and replant a more suitable species.

Trees planted using Root Director - Valentine Gardens Trees planted using Root Director - Valentine Gardens

“Citygreen’s Root Director system has allowed the new trees to prosper without damaging the footpath. Root Director is a quality root modification product which modifies the root morphology, directing the roots 400ml below the surface to avoid damage to the pavement above.”

Root Director - Valentine Garden Project

“Great customer service, quick response times and a very in depth QA system with constant support.”

- Laura Wiesenekker, Project Engineer, Densford Civil -

“Citygreen is a very professional  business, and I found everything was great in terms of deliveries, product supply and information. It was all forthcoming and helped us to complete the project.”

- Keith Burns, Architect/Designer, Keith Burns Architect -

“Citygreen offered training and invaluable technical assistance during the works.”

- James Callan, Estimating Manager, Complex Co Pty Ltd -

“Our experience, in working with a Citygreen Design Studio was second to none. We found responses from the design studio to be very timely, and technically thorough. We went backwards and forwards a number of times, looking at different iterations of the design and, nothing was too much trouble to examine and explore different possibilities. I would highly recommend the Citygreen Design Studio to any future client considering using your services.”

- Sandra Smith, Principal Landscape Architect, City Of Monash -

“We are big on compliance on all projects, and the fact that their SmartCertify cloud platform covers all bases, and supports their 20 year warranties, is critical – especially that these pits are being installed under roadways and footpaths.”

- Johny Purkaystha, Civil Program Engineer, Central Coast Council -

"I reviewed all the previous projects that we have installed in the past couple years using your product and I can happily report back that we have 0% mortality in the soil cells, which is incredible!"

- Brendan Wilton, CEO, Trim Landscaping, Bedford, Canada -