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Urban Tree Planting: Guaranteeing Long-Term Success
December 9, 2021
After almost 3 1/2 years after it was first published the Environment Bill has now been passed by [...]
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Planting Trees on Rooftops and Podium Decks
May 13, 2021
In our increasingly dense towns and cities, we are having to find new and creative ways to get [...]
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Urban Tree Planting Constraints
April 22, 2021
As soon as tree planting is proposed in our congested urban areas, the full plethora of challenges [...]
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Value Management or Value Engineering
October 29, 2020
We all appreciate Value – today we look at the balance between benefit (outputs) and the cost or [...]
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Who is responsible for Maintaining our Public Trees?
October 15, 2020
During times of economic crisis, budgets for local authority landscape maintenance have always been [...]
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Enabling Seamless Specification
May 28, 2020
Did you know GreenBlue Urban offers FREE Urban Tree Planting Design Services? At the start of any [...]
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Adapting to Change – Healthy Streets
May 21, 2020
In London and large cities like New York in North America, Nearly 80% public open space is [...]
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What is an Urban Forest?
May 14, 2020
Guest Post – Kenton Rogers – Treeconomics Urban Forestry is a term which many of us [...]
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Happy Healthy Communities
May 7, 2020
In our smaller communities Trees are more than just shade and protection, they are jungle gyms for [...]
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Effective Pollutant Mitigation of Stormwater Run-Off Using ArborFlow
April 30, 2020
The ArborFlow SuDS Tree Pit system was developed as part of an integrated surface water management [...]
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Urban Collaboration – How we work with you!
April 23, 2020
When we look back at these times of uncertainty, there will be some contributing factor’s apart [...]
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Enabling you to Build Green Cities
March 24, 2020
With everyday life very much behind closed doors with the instruction of homebound living, [...]
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Embedding Canopy Cover from the Start
August 1, 2019
We quite often see new developments and prominent city-centre regeneration schemes lauded and [...]
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Long Term Successful Tree Planting and the Rise of the Planter
July 19, 2019
Following some activity in the Twittersphere regarding the trees in planters in Kings Cross, a site [...]
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Site visit for EU ‘COOL TOWNS’ Project
April 11, 2019
Our readers may remember the launch of GreenBlue Urban’s second successful EU Interreg funded 2Seas [...]
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Maximising Land Value through SuDS
January 17, 2019
As we all are aware, land is a limited commodity – it’s not being made anymore. Pressure on housing [...]
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GreenBlue Urban Host a Trial Tree Pit Event
July 12, 2018
On a very warm summers day – Independence Day to be precise, GreenBlue were pleased to invite [...]
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Why Urban Tree Planting Encourages Modal Shift
July 5, 2018
Modal shift is one of the most urgent goals in our urban areas; defined as replacing a saturated [...]
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Increase your Investment by Reshaping the Ecosystem
June 7, 2018
At first sight, new tree planting in hard surfaces on developments looks like an easy target for a [...]
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The True Value of Tree Planting
May 31, 2018
With space and land at a premium in cities around the world, the need to make the case for green [...]
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Providing Support from Concept to Installation
May 24, 2018
We understand the pressures that specifiers face in the fast-paced design world, and in particular, [...]
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Trees & Water Sensitive Urban Design
May 17, 2018
Welcome to our 2018 Trees & Water Sensitive Urban Design publication – a step by step [...]
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Getting the right solution above ground!
May 3, 2018
We constantly find ourselves communicating the essentials of the below ground infrastructure [...]
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How to Integrate Tree Pits into Complex Urban Environments
April 26, 2018
For Specifiers, the use of a complete tree pit package saves time and reduces the complexities of [...]
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Onsite Support = Long Term Solution!
April 12, 2018
GreenBlue Urban are committed to successful trees; long term mature canopy cover being proven to [...]
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