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Tree management software: what it is and what to look for
Tree management software records your trees, inspections and maintenance on one map. What a tree management system does, and ten questions for any vendor.
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Tree management knowledge base. From duty of care to tree inventory.
What you need to know to manage trees well in the Netherlands: the inspection, the duty of care, the inventory, the software and the work with contractors. Written for tree managers and procurement officers at municipalities and other tree owners.
What is a tree safety inspection (BVC)?
A tree safety inspection (BVC in Dutch) is the visual check of a tree for defects that pose a danger. What you assess, record and follow up, and why.
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How to create a tree inventory: from survey to register
Creating a tree inventory: which data you record per tree, how you survey trees, bring in existing data and keep the inventory current. Dutch practice.
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Municipal tree management: how a local authority runs it
Municipal tree management runs from policy and management plan to inspection, maintenance and records. The cycle, the roles and where it goes wrong.
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Outsourcing tree maintenance: working with a contractor
Outsourcing tree maintenance to a contractor: what goes in the specification, how assignment, report back and settlement run, and how to handle deviations.
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Duty of care for trees: what Dutch municipalities record
In the Netherlands the duty of care for trees follows from article 6:162 of the Civil Code. When a municipality is liable, and what you record per tree.
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Handboek Bomen 2026 and 2022: the Dutch tree standard
Handboek Bomen is the Dutch standard of Norminstituut Bomen for tree work. What is in it, whether it is mandatory and what the 2026 edition changes.
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Storm damage from trees: who is liable in the Netherlands?
Under Dutch law a tree owner is only liable for storm damage if the duty of care was breached. What a municipality does and records around a storm.
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Practice scenarios
Three situations from a tree manager's work, and how they run in IDA.
Prioritising risk trees when the budget falls short
Prioritising risk trees after the inspection, when the budget falls short: IDA Bomen puts a risk score per tree next to the inspector's assessment.
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Tree dossier for a damage claim: what to show
A damage claim after a tree blows over: the insurer asks whether it was inspected. What you have to show, and how the tree dossier in IDA Bomen gives it.
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Outsourcing tree inspections: keep sight of the round
Outsourcing tree inspections and still seeing the progress: how your contractor's inspectors work in your own tree inventory in IDA Bomen.
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See your own tree inventory in IDA
Send us your tree inventory, as a shapefile, an Excel list or whatever you have, and we will show IDA on your own trees, from your own file to the approval of field work.
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