UTILITY ARBORICULTURE
Primarily, utility arboriculture is about ensuring that power lines remain clear of vegetation in order to ensure public safety and continuity of supply.
Since 1990, UPM Tilhill has been working closely with utility clients to find solutions to the industry’s varied and unique challenges. Our dedicated utility management team has developed exemplary quality, safety, and environmental credentials. Our expertise enables us to implement tree clearance works with the minimum of inconvenience to our clients and the public. We seek the optimum mix of safety clearance and good arboricultural practice, thereby minimising the impact on the amenity value of vegetation in the local community.
Reliable maps and databases are essential tools for managing utility and property assets. UPM Tilhill uses geographic information systems – linking digital map data to an asset database enabling querying and analysis of data with the facility to view results in map form.
UPM Tilhill is one of the few vegetation management companies to provide full ‘turn-key’ electrical services, from changing LV fuses to 132Kv outages. Working on behalf of distribution network operators, UPM Tilhill will, each year, notify tens of thousands of electricity customers of essential power shutdowns, resolve the vegetation problems, and advise landowners on ongoing tree maintenance.
An integrated approach
Of course, not all power lines run through gardens or woodlands where a tailored arboricultural approach is appropriate – some run through forests where a broad harvesting approach will be more cost-effective, and others alongside railway lines with the added complications and dangers which that may bring.
UPM Tilhill is the UK’s leading forestry and harvesting company, with a dedicated utilities team whose expertise can be brought to bear on every situation.Whatever and wherever the vegetation problem, UPM Tilhill will have the expertise and experience to tackle it in the most effective and professional way.
Website reporting
UPM Tilhill has a website dedicated to utility clients. Clients can have a password-driven secure area where daily reporting of team locations, health and safety issues, training records, shutdowns, and more, can be found – so clients can receive up-to-the-minute information on their contracts at any time.
Assurance management
In a heavily-regulated industry it is essential that our clients are confident of our ability to deliver services in a safe, compliant, timely, and cost-effective manner.
To manage its diverse operations consistently and thoroughly, UPM Tilhill has implemented an integrated system - an Assurance Management System - which combines the ISO 9001:2000 (quality assurance), ISO 14001 (environmental management) and OHSAS 18001 (health and safety) standards.
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