Stormwater Management (SUDS) Blog Posts
The History of Urban Drainage & the Need for Change
Sustainable surface water management is not just a modern innovation, there is evidence from [...]
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Not all Super Heroes wear Capes. (Some wear Leaves).
Trees are the heroes of our landscape. A bold claim you think? Possibly. But look at the list of [...]
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There’s more to managing stormwater than ‘pipe to pond’
Looks all too familiar, doesn’t it? Far too often we are seeing images across our news channels on [...]
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Utilizing SuDS/LID Tree Pits for Micoplastic Filtration
Pollutants from our urban runoff reaching our oceans is becoming a global problem. Even the most [...]
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How to Design for Biodiversity
It was a pleasure again to visit Palestra – the illustrious venue of TfL and Urban Design London. [...]
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Introducing HydroPlanter™ – The Ultimate Rain Garden Solution
GreenBlue Urban are excited to announce the launch of a new modular bioretention raingarden system, [...]
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Trees as Elements for Stormwater Management
Stormwater management in inner cities has become an increasing issue in recent times, traditionally [...]
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How Bioretention Tree Pits can Manage Stormwater at Source
At GreenBlue Urban we have been continuously innovating to develop engineered solutions that not [...]
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Bringing Together a Wealth of Expertise for – “Suds in the City”
In the fourth of the 2019 roadshows GBU has undertaken, having visited Glasgow, Leeds and [...]
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Evolving our Understanding to Meet Drainage Solutions
GreenBlue Urban’s Charlotte recently attended the CIWEM Spring Conference in Birmingham to learn [...]
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SUDS Source at the Highest Level
It was a pleasure to meet fellow members of the SuDs community to explore the progress we have made [...]
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Maximising Land Value through SuDS
As we all are aware, land is a limited commodity – it’s not being made anymore. Pressure on housing [...]
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Cool Towns Meet Up
It is a great pleasure that GreenBlue Urban have become partners on a second successful EU Interreg [...]
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It’s a HAPPY NEW YEAR for Welsh SUDs!
Following a series of consultations on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS), Schedule 3 of the [...]
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A Tour of Greener Grangetown
Opened just recently, the pioneering SUDs scheme, ‘Greener Grangetown’, is situated in the heart of [...]
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Time to Reflect on Value
This year professionals from the length and breadth of the country and beyond gathered in Greenwich [...]
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Water Resilient Cities Update: Middelburg Test Site
An update from another project partner, the municipality of Middelburg As part of our work in the [...]
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Trees & Water Sensitive Urban Design
Welcome to our 2018 Trees & Water Sensitive Urban Design publication – a step by step [...]
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Integrating SUDS / LID into a City Vision
We are now into the initial phases of implementing pilot projects as part of our involvement in the [...]
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Water Resilient Cities – Kortrijk Workshop
As part of GreenBlue Urban’s commitment to the EU Interreg Water Resilient Cities Project, [...]
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What’s next for Water Resilient Cities?
GreenBlue Urban have been involved for one year now in an EU Interreg project called Water [...]
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The Implementation of Blue Green Corridors
In the last decade there has been a significant rise in the number of green, or what are now being [...]
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ArborFlow – Installing a SUDS/LID Tree Pit
Great news we have compiled a comprehensive yet simple video for installing a Sustainable Urban [...]
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Green Infrastructure as Part of Health Impact Assessments
The research into the relationship between green infrastructure and human health is well advanced, [...]
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SuDS, Trees and Brownfield
In the UK, mainland Europe and beyond, planners and elected representatives all face a common [...]
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