Urban trees are critical infrastructure and managing them at city scale just got smarter. greehill and Civica have announced a strategic partnership that connects AI-powered urban tree intelligence with one of the public sector’s most trusted asset management platforms. For councils and community estates worldwide, this marks a significant shift in how urban forests are understood, managed, and protected.
Why Urban Forest Management Needs a New Approach
Cities around the world are grappling with the same challenge: they have more tree, but turning that data into reliable, actionable decisions remains difficult. Inspection records sit in silos. Risk assessments are inconsistent. Long-term planning is hampered by fragmented information that quickly becomes outdated.
The result? Reactive maintenance, avoidable incidents, and missed opportunities to maximise the environmental value of urban green infrastructure.
Urban trees are not just aesthetic assets. They regulate temperature, manage stormwater, improve air quality and support biodiversity. Managing this green infrastructure effectively requires the same rigour applied to roads, utilities and public buildings, which means consistent, scalable, objective data intelligence across an entire urban forest, not just isolated tree-by-tree records.
Introducing the greehill–Civica Partnership
greehill and Civica have joined forces to deliver exactly that: an integrated solution that combines greehill’s AI-powered urban tree management technology with Civica’s ArborSafe platform, a trusted tool for asset and tree safety management used by councils across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
The partnership connects two complementary capabilities:
- greehill provides street-level LiDAR scanning, high-resolution 3D digital twin modelling, and AI-supported analytics, delivering precise, city-scale data on canopy health, species distribution, biomass, risk exposure and long-term environmental value.
- Civica’s ArborSafe provides the operational and compliance layer: a proven system for scheduling inspections, managing work orders, tracking risk and maintaining audit trails for tree safety management.
Together, they create a seamlessly connected system that transforms raw survey data into operational intelligence, directly embedded in the workflows councils already use.
Turning Urban Forest Intelligence into Operational Action
One of the core challenges in urban forestry is the gap between knowing and doing. Survey data is collected, reports are generated and then the insights often fail to reach the teams responsible for day-to-day management. This partnership closes that gap.
By feeding greehill’s detailed LiDAR-derived models directly into ArborSafe, councils gain a continuously updated picture of their urban forest that is immediately actionable. Maintenance priorities are informed by objective condition data. Risk assessments are grounded in accurate structural measurements rather than visual estimates. Long-term planning benefits from reliable baseline data on canopy cover, ecosystem services and tree population dynamics.
“Urban forest management doesn’t suffer from a lack of data, it suffers from a lack of usable intelligence. greehill addresses this by providing a consistent, scalable understanding of urban forests across entire cities. Through this partnership with Civica, that intelligence can be directly embedded into operational workflows, enabling better decisions, reduced risk and more effective long-term management.”
Peter Sasi, Vice-President Asia Pacific, greehill
A Real-World First: Sanctuary Cove Estate
The partnership is already moving into practice. Sanctuary Cove Estate, an existing Civica customer in Queensland, Australia, will be among the first communities to benefit from the combined solution. By pairing greehill’s LiDAR-based scanning and advanced analytics with ArborSafe’s compliance and safety management capabilities, Sanctuary Cove will gain a precise, reliable understanding of its local tree population. The integrated data will support proactive maintenance planning, improve resident safety and strengthen long-term sustainability goals for the estate.
The Bigger Picture: Urban Trees as Critical Infrastructure
This partnership reflects a broader shift in how cities and communities think about their urban forests. For too long, urban tree management has been treated as a peripheral function, a green spaces issue rather than an infrastructure priority. The growing impacts of climate change, combined with increasing public expectations around safety and environmental performance, are changing that calculus fast.
Councils that manage their urban forests as critical infrastructure with the same data rigour and operational discipline applied to the built assets will be better positioned to reduce risk, contain costs and deliver real environmental outcomes for their communities.
“By bringing together ArborSafe’s proven compliance and safety capabilities with greehill’s next-generation AI forestry intelligence, we’re equipping local governments with a far more powerful and complete view of their urban environments.”
Adrian Brincat, Market Leader GRC, Civica APAC
What This Means for Councils and Community Estates
For any local government or community estate currently managing trees through fragmented systems, the greehill–Civica partnership offers a clear path to something better:
- Consistent, objective baseline data across your entire tree population, captured via LiDAR and validated through AI-supported processing
- 3D digital twin models that provide structural and biological detail impossible to replicate through manual survey alone
- Direct integration with operational workflows via ArborSafe, so insights translate into scheduled maintenance, risk mitigation and compliance records
- Scalable intelligence that grows with your urban forest and supports long-term planning, budget forecasting and environmental reporting
