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YARDZEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM USES DESIGN S OFTWARE TO CONNECT COMPANIES NATIONWIDE
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he industry is creatively finding new approaches to doing business, especially amid a thinning workforce. Many groups have started working together to ease the gaps in their internal teams by coordinating with similar businesses on projects and tasks. Crossovers between design, build and maintenance groups is not new, but closer networking and communication with other landscapers is becoming easier. This is largely due to advanced technology and accessible digital platforms. Yardzen, a California landscape design and build firm with nationwide service, is embracing this idea. They are helping industry teams network and
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coordinate, and the tactic is helping them quickly grow to be one of the most widespread groups in the country. Twenty-two people died, 5,000-plus buildings were destroyed and 36,000-plus acres were scorched across Northern California during the Tubs Wildfire in 2017. The disaster is one of the largest wildfires in state history. Allison Messner and her husband lived on four acres of land in Northern California at the time. They watched helplessly as flames overtook the community near their 100-year-old farmhouse. Allison says, by some miracle, the fire spared their home. But their land, outbuildings, fences and even rain gutters were destroyed.
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