Australian Standards have helped landscapers improve quality and reputation. For LCS Landscapes, adhering to Australian Standards is a benchmark for quality because of what the standards represent, combining the wisdom and experience of established experts in each field and coming together to agree on the best way to do things.

LCS commercial manager Tom Atkins says it took more than 20 years to build LCS’ reputation for quality, essential for winning work from government departments and educational authorities.

“Australian Standards help us deliver a quality project because we can check off every element against the relevant standard across a huge range of use cases,” he says.

“It starts at ground level, and it goes right the way up through to the finished product, from our designers using them every day to make sure that everything is design-compliant, through to making sure that each piece of equipment that comes in from overseas meets Australian Standards and is going in the ground correctly.”

Recently, LCS has adopted a Custom Subscription from the Standards Australia Store. Whereas standards had previously been accessed via physical folders or via PDFs, the move to modern digital access via a Custom Subscription means LCS staff can more easily collaborate using the standards.

“The Custom Subscription from the Standards Australia Store has been perfect for LCS, because our guys out in the field can get the information they require off their iPads instantaneously, which is great,” Tom says.