Shading Tree Species Causing Infrastructure Damage in the Main Campus of Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

Infrastructure is a major supporting factor for the development of a state and trees are always planted throughout the infrastructure for the green aspect, which then promotes infrastucture damage. The damage defined as tree growth at adjacent infrastructure and growth of the roots broke the materials, as this has been occured in the main campus of Universitas Negeri Padang but the knowledge related to the conflict is very limited. This research aims to determine the types of protective trees that are not infrastructure hospitable on the main campus of Universitas Negeri Padang. The type of research carried out was descriptive research, which was carried out from January-February 2023 at the main campus of Universitas Negeri Padang. 100 trees were sampled, and measured the diameter and name of species. Data were analyzed descriptively, namely by describing the frequency of event based on diameter size and list of name of the tree species. The results show that all trees were belonging to 8 species with diameter ranged from 26,75 cm to 114,01 cm (58,8392 cm on average) causing damaged to infrastructure in the main campus of Universitas Negeri Padang. There are some factors associated to the damages and these need to be studied in order to understand the phenomena.