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    Radcliff Construction Group
    Site Works

    Commercial Landscape Installation

    Install-only landscape, sod, soil prep, and finish grading for commercial projects in Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Dayton — delivered as a co-equal division of Radcliff Construction Group's commercial GC business.

    Most commercial landscape contractors lead with maintenance contracts — recurring mowing, mulching, and seasonal color — and treat installation as enhancement work bolted onto an existing service relationship. Radcliff Site Works is built the other way around. We are an install-only commercial landscape division of a commercial general contractor, working under the same insurance, the same project management discipline, and the same closeout standards that govern our tenant improvement and exterior renovation work.

    What we install

    Site Works delivers five categories of commercial site work, all on a one-time install basis tied to a defined scope, schedule, and warranty period:

    • Plant material — trees, shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, and groundcovers, specified to ANSI Z60.2-2025 (formerly ANSI Z60.1) caliper, height, container class, and root condition standards.
    • Sod — turf-type tall fescue and TTTF / Kentucky bluegrass commercial sod-quality blends suited to the Ohio Valley transition zone, installed per UFGS 32 92 23 thickness and harvest-to-install conventions.
    • Topsoil placement and soil preparation — imported topsoil specified to the ASTM D5268 framework, placed at depths appropriate to turf, shrub bed, and tree pit conditions.
    • Landscape grading — finish shaping of planting and lawn areas to design contours under CSI 32 91 19, distinct from civil-scale earthwork.
    • Commercial pavers and hardscape — pedestrian and light-vehicular paver work, built to CMHA Tech Spec base, bedding, and edge-restraint standards.

    Why install-only is a different category

    Commercial landscape installation looks similar to landscape maintenance from the outside, but the procurement worlds are different. Installation work is capital expense — bid against AIA contract documents, bonded under AIA A312-2010, billed against AIA G702/G703 schedule of values, closed out at substantial completion under AIA A201-2017 §9.8. Maintenance work is operating expense — annual contracts, monthly recurring billing, no construction-procurement infrastructure. A maintenance-led landscaper extending sideways into install brings horticultural depth but rarely the construction-side discipline that GC-procured landscape work demands. A GC-affiliated install-only contractor brings both.

    Specifications we work to

    Site Works submittals reference the standards your architect or landscape architect is most likely to cite:

    • Plant material — ANSI Z60.2-2025
    • Topsoil — ASTM D5268 (current edition)
    • Sod — UFGS 32 92 23 / TPI Guideline Specifications
    • Pavers — CMHA Tech Spec installation guidelines
    • Pruning at install — ANSI A300 Part 1
    • Warranty — AIA A201-2017 §3.5 / §12.2
    • Procurement — CSI MasterFormat Division 32 (32 90 00, 32 91 00, 32 92 00, 32 93 00, 32 14 00)

    If your specifier writes to these, our submittals will track to them.

    Coverage and project size

    Site Works projects sit between $25,000 and $500,000 in landscape value. We are headquartered in Crescent Springs, Kentucky, and our coverage area is the Greater Cincinnati metro, all of Northern Kentucky (Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties), and the Dayton / Miami Valley region. We work directly for owners on capital projects and as a Division 32 sub-trade for general contractors on larger TI and exterior renovation work.

    Project size & scope

    • Range: $25,000 – $500,000 in landscape value
    • Standalone landscape installs and turnkey site packages
    • Direct to owner, or as Division 32 sub to GCs

    What we don't do

    We do not perform:

    • Drainage, stormwater, or MS4 work
    • Retaining walls of any size
    • Irrigation system design or install
    • Erosion control or civil-scale sitework
    • Recurring grounds maintenance

    If your scope includes these, we will tell you up front and refer the right trades.

    Coverage area

    • Cincinnati metro
    • Northern Kentucky — Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties
    • Dayton and Miami Valley
    • USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6b (per 2023 USDA map)

    Commercial Landscape Installation FAQs

    Installation is one-time work tied to a defined project — new plantings, new sod, soil prep and grading, paver and hardscape construction — bid against architectural specifications and closed out at substantial completion. Maintenance is the recurring work that keeps the landscape alive afterward — mowing, irrigation operation, mulch refresh, pruning, fertilization. Most commercial landscape companies lead with maintenance because it produces recurring revenue. Radcliff Site Works is install-only and hands the property to your maintenance contractor at substantial completion.

    Site Works projects range from roughly $25,000 to $500,000 in landscape and hardscape value. Below that range we typically refer; above it, the project is usually a Division 32 line on a larger GC contract that we are well-positioned to self-perform.

    Yes. When Radcliff Construction Group is the general contractor on a tenant improvement or exterior renovation project, Site Works is delivered as Division 32 scope under the same prime contract, the same insurance certificate, the same project manager, and the same closeout. There is no second contract, second submittal log, or second closeout package.

    Container shrubs and perennials are usually available with short lead times. Field-grown balled-and-burlapped trees and specimen-grade trees over four-inch caliper are not — they often require pre-tagging at the grower months ahead of the dig season. Production has not fully recovered from 2008-era cuts, the 2021 Texas freeze, or the 2024–2025 Ohio Valley drought. We pre-book stock as soon as a project plant list is finalized; later commitments often mean substitutions.

    Standard commercial plant warranty is one year or one full growing season from the date the landscape work reaches final acceptance, with one replacement per failed plant. Sod gets a 60- to 90-day establishment warranty contingent on owner watering per our written instructions. Hardscape and paver workmanship gets one to two years on installation defects. Vandalism, lack of irrigation, and damage by a separate maintenance contractor void the warranty — that is industry standard, written into AIA A201-2017 §3.5.1 by reference, and we walk you through what it actually means before contract signature.

    Related Site Works pages

    Commercial Pavers and HardscapeCommercial Sod InstallationSite GradingIntegrated Exterior RenovationHow to Write a Commercial Landscape RFP

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