Landscaping and External Works in Mauritius

BFC Ltd handles the ground outside the building as carefully as the building itself, combining planting with the paving, drainage and lighting that make it usable.

What we deliver

• Garden design and soft landscaping
• Planting, turfing and scheduled maintenance rounds
• Paving, kerbs, walkways and parking areas
• Water features and irrigation
• Boundary walls, fencing and gates
• External lighting and surface water drainage

How we work

Heavy seasonal rain decides whether external works last. Levels, falls and drainage are set out first, because paving laid to the wrong fall will hold water and undermine itself no matter how good the finish looks on the day.

Plant selection is made for the exposure of the site, with tougher salt tolerant species near the coast and shade planting where a courtyard gets little sun. Ongoing maintenance rounds can be added to a facilities management contract.

Getting external works to survive the rain

External works in Mauritius live or die on two things: drainage and base preparation. A beautiful paved terrace laid on an inadequate base will settle and rock within two seasons, and any hard surface that sheds water towards a building rather than away from it will eventually put water where you do not want it. So we set levels and falls first, deal with where the water is going to go, compact and lay a proper base, and only then think about the finish.

Planting follows the same logic. Species that thrive in the central plateau are not always the ones that survive salt wind on the coast, and irrigation needs to match both. We keep external works and building works under one contract wherever possible, because the joints between them — thresholds, drainage outlets, the point where paving meets a wall — are exactly where problems appear when two different contractors each assume the other dealt with it.

Recent work

Coverage across Mauritius

BFC Ltd operates from Quatre Bornes and carries out landscaping and external works island wide, covering Port Louis, the central towns of Curepipe, Rose Hill, Vacoas and Phoenix, the north and the coastal districts. Commercial, industrial, retail and residential properties are all served.