Design & Construction Blog Posts
Bringing Nature to your Doorstep
Biodiversity surrounds us in our everyday lives without us even noticing, from the birds in the [...]
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Greening Our School Infrastructure
As part of the Levelling up White Paper, government initiatives pledged £1bn to rebuild schools and [...]
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Mission – Possible!
The negative effects of climate change we see and hear worrying, the proven statistics are even [...]
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Global Climate Change – A Paradigm Shift Required
Adapting to Climate Change has never been so important; as the BBC reported just this week the past [...]
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Urban Tree Planting: Guaranteeing Long-Term Success
After almost 3 1/2 years after it was first published the Environment Bill has now been passed by [...]
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Reasons to Choose the Only Fully Integrated Tree Pit Solution
GreenBlue Urban has been supporting building contractors for decades – helping them to save time [...]
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Reflecting your ethos in Green Space
Ethos: the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and [...]
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Designing for Climate Change
Climate Change is a term that is used every day, but do we fully understand the importance of what [...]
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Quotation to Seamless Installation
Green infrastructure is often described as a series of interconnected networks of multifunctional [...]
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Good Design Starts Below Ground
It’s all too easy when designing an urban space, to begin with, what we have at or above ground [...]
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Designing a 15 Minute City
Before COVID 19 and the need for working at home became essential, a ’15 minute City’ concept [...]
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Planting Trees on Rooftops and Podium Decks
In our increasingly dense towns and cities, we are having to find new and creative ways to get [...]
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Right Tree, Right Place
One of the best known arboricultural statements is Right tree, Right place – often used to [...]
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Urban Tree Planting Constraints
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
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?
During times of economic crisis, budgets for local authority landscape maintenance have always been [...]
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Will we see tree-lined streets on all new developments?
Since MP Mr Chris Clarkson brought a Private Members Bill to the House of Commons on 15th July that [...]
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Enabling Seamless Specification
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
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?
Guest Post – Kenton Rogers – Treeconomics Urban Forestry is a term which many of us [...]
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Happy Healthy Communities
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
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!
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
With everyday life very much behind closed doors with the instruction of homebound living, [...]
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Embedding Canopy Cover from the Start
We quite often see new developments and prominent city-centre regeneration schemes lauded and [...]
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