Design & Construction Blog Posts
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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Long Term Successful Tree Planting and the Rise of the Planter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We understand the pressures that specifiers face in the fast-paced design world, and in particular, [...]
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