Reviewing Tree Pit Specifications: Questions Worth Asking
Value engineering is part of modern construction. Every project is under pressure to deliver quality outcomes while maintaining programme and budget objectives. As a result, below-ground specifications are often reviewed alongside every other package. Tree pits and soil cell systems are no exception. What makes below-ground infrastructure slightly different is that these systems rarely exist in isolation. They […]
Delivery at Pace: Turning Ambition into Action Across AMP8
Water companies have entered AMP8 with a clear objective: remove rainwater from overloaded sewer networks. The reasons are well understood. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of rainfall events, sewer networks are under growing pressure, regulatory expectations continue to rise, and communities want to see visible action that improves the places where they […]
Visiting RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021
Passionate about gardening? Each springtime, London explodes with vibrant colours and scents with the world’s greatest flower show. During the five days in Chelsea, the show welcomes an extensive guest list from The Royal Family including The Queen herself, celebrities from all industries and the average everyday avid gardener. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show offers a chance to […]
Slowing the Flow at Flood Expo
Finally, we are jumping for joy to announce that events are back! It was a pleasure to be public-facing again whilst exhibiting at the NEC Birmingham for FloodExpo 2021. The team were delighted to meet with professionals from the water industry, whilst displaying our innovative SUDS related products and new marketing collateral on our eye-catching […]
Collaborators Join Force for our VIP Event
It was a great pleasure for the GreenBlue Urban to invite friends, colleagues and collaborators to celebrate the opening of our new London Design Studio in the heart of London’s thriving creative district of Clerkenwell. A stone’s throw from major transport hubs it makes the ideal location for Architects, Landscape Architects, Contractors, Developers, Planners and […]
Getting the right solution above ground!
We constantly find ourselves communicating the essentials of the below ground infrastructure requirements for urban trees in the hard landscape. However, the considerations above the ground are critical if the urban trees we integrate into the hard landscape are to have the opportunity to provide the essential ecosystems services to those who live, work and […]
How to Integrate Tree Pits into Complex Urban Environments
For Specifiers, the use of a complete tree pit package saves time and reduces the complexities of ensuring that below and above ground solutions for the tree are integrated. This provides the long-term irrigation, aeration, support and protection for all urban trees that specifiers work into their projects. This is why GreenBlue Urban’s ArborSystem has been […]
Onsite Support = Long Term Solution!
GreenBlue Urban are committed to successful trees; long term mature canopy cover being proven to give multiple benefits for all who live, work and play in our urban areas. To assist the contractor with excavation, GreenBlue Urban provides accurate dig dimensions, minimising adjustments required once RootSpace soil cells are being installed. This service can save […]
Soil Cells – Saving you Time & Money!
Having spent the past 25 years in a process of constant research and innovation, here at GreenBlue Urban we are confident that soil cell systems provide multiple benefits that alternative tree pit methods will not be able to deliver and that saving time and money are critical factors to the implementation of a successful scheme. […]
Tree Pits, Why, How – The Basics
Tree Pits – What are the options and why Soil Support Cells provide the best long-term solution. Hard landscapes present unique challenges to the installer but this need not detract from the project of integrating good quality mature trees into the built environment with speed and ease. Planning policy around the world provides increasingly stringent guidelines […]