How to Promote Active Transport and Improve Urban Life
Designing cities for walking and cycling can improve health, reduce pollution and make urban spaces more vibrant and inclusive…
Green Infrastructure Explained: What It Is and Why It Matters
Green infrastructure can enhance urban development while protecting biodiversity. Learn about sustainable solutions like green roofs, wildflower meadows, and urban forests that promote environmental resilience, reduce costs, and improve quality of life…
What You Need to Know About Outdoor LED Lighting
A quick introduction to key technical terms and units of measurement involved in outdoor lighting specification…
Are LEDs the best solution for environmentally friendly lighting?
LED streetlights are energy-efficient but can disrupt sleep patterns and harm wildlife due to their high blue light emission. With careful design, however, they offer sustainable, eco-friendly lighting solutions…
More SuDS schemes please – it’s not just about flood prevention
Watching the increasing rate of floods in the UK has become a distressing experience. Extreme rainfall is always difficult to deal with, conventional drainage systems – huge underground networks of […]
Hostile vehicle attacks – how do we make places safer?
As terrorist tactics evolve and shift, countermeasures also need to adapt to create resilience to different threats. One of the main considerations of counter-terrorism design is preventing unauthorised vehicles from […]
Bike racks: a best practice guide to getting cycle parking right
A bike rack should be one of life’s simpler things – a safe place to leave your bike. So it’s pretty frustrating when it isn’t. Even when bike racks are designed […]
A guide to outdoor musical instruments
What’s so great about outdoor musical instruments? Music is a language shared by everyone, and every bit of evidence shows that playing music is good for us. We learn about […]
Why Playground Equipment is Essential for Making Strong Kids
We all know that children are a lot less active than they should be. They spend way too much time sitting – at school, in front of screens, and getting […]
Tree diseases! Why you need to be planting some seed-grown trees
There is much alarm at the moment as British trees are threatened by a range of pathogens, from fungal diseases to invasive pests. Hardly a month goes by without news of […]