Landscaping Dubai — Shade, Drainage and Irrigation, Priced Line by Line

Warm-season grasses hold up in a Dubai summer; cool-season turf does not. What decides the rest is coverage and root depth — heads spaced so no strip sits at the dry edge of a throw, the controller running before sunrise rather than at midday, and enough topsoil over the sand for roots to hold water. The BOQ names the grass and the head layout rather than saying turf. What happens after handover is mowing, feeding and controller discipline, which sit outside this scope and under a maintenance contract if you want them covered.

Because a supply line or a lighting cable that has to cross a paved area is either sleeved beforehand or cut in afterwards. A sleeve is a length of empty conduit laid with the sub-base, sized so a pipe or cable can be pulled through later. It adds very little at that stage and it is the difference between adding a light next year and lifting a terrace to do it.

In most master communities, yes — anything changing the boundary, the external appearance or a hard surface is reviewed before work starts, and the developer sets the pack and the deposit. A shade structure on footings is usually treated as a structure rather than a garden item, so it carries its own submission. We prepare and submit whichever applies, and the fees sit on the BOQ at cost.

Usually because one of them has not named quantities. Soft landscape priced by eye, plant sizes left off, irrigation "included" with no zone count, and sand fill and disposal invisible until the invoice. Our BOQ states the areas, the container sizes, the number of plants and the number of irrigation zones, so what you are comparing is specification rather than optimism.