Case Studies

How the ArborRaft Urban Tree Pit System is helping Salford’s green infrastructure

We are all aware of the effects of global warming, especially within our cities. The increased emissions from traffic and industry are rapidly toxifying our air, to the point that in many cities the air quality falls short of the safe guidelines.

80 Charlotte Street, in the exclusive Fitzrovia district of London is a mixed-use development featuring an impressive line-up of greening measures, all helping to achieve Carbon Net Zero status.

To celebrate Coventry’s 2021 UK City of Culture status, a new linear park has been proposed to run from Naul’s Mill Park, along the route of Radford Brook, to connect with Belgrade Plaza in the city’s theatre quarter. The area included a redundant 6.5-acre gas works site and a vast, grey, dark underpass area traversing underneath the ring road. All in all, it was not considered a pleasant route in or out of the city centre.

Designed to be an important and integral part of Leeds’ vibrant Cultural Quarter, sitting side by side with the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Quarry Hill Campus is one of the first developments to be completed as part of an exciting £300m redevelopment of the area.

One of the UK’s busiest retail sites, Teesside Park in Stockton-on-Tees, is undergoing its biggest overhaul for 30 years.

The idea behind Nexus was one of collaboration, setting up a “community of innovators”, as well as becoming home for the University of Leeds’ new Design and Innovation Centre. With an impressive new entrance on Woodhouse Lane, Nexus forms a striking new gateway between the city and the southern corner of the campus.

York City Council are in the process of regenerating parts of the Shambles in Roman city York - Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma gate, Walmgate and Fossgate.

Leading landscape supplier Green-tech was called in to help AWS Landscapes with a screening issue for their client, ALDI in Retford. Gt Specifier is the specification arm of Green-tech and works with landscape architects and designers on landscaping projects and specifications.

Leading landscape supplier Green-tech and their Specification team, gt Specifier, has been called in to help Newbrook Gardening Services with the planting of two established trees in an urban setting. Salford council commissioned a new traffic island on Cromwell Road in Salford; which was designed to stop vehicle access.

Queens Walk, a development of 284 student flats in Reading has utilised the Mona Plant System within its new courtyard area, an all- year-round social space for its residents.

York University has recently undergone a massive £750m campus expansion programme which included a programme to develop the landscape of the Heslington East campus, a site now supporting growing populations of wildlife and wild flowers.

The Mona Tree Irrigation System has been incorporated into a series of urban trees that form part of a war memorial in Lancashire. The memorial honours the servicemen of World War II who passed through the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Burscough, known as HMS Ringtail

The revolutionary ArborRaft System has been installed on one of the most high profile projects, currently in construction in Cambridge. One The Square is the first phase of the CB1 project to incorporate the ArborRaft System into.

Streatham Hub is an exciting new development in South London offering modern apartments and leisure facilities. Building three is set around a landscaped residential courtyard and the entire site boasts exclusive landscaped walkways.

Over 1,200 tonnes of Green-tree, British Standard Topsoil has been installed into the recent regeneration programme of Harton Quay Park, South Tyneside.

Green-tech were asked to help with an exciting new project being specified by Martin Woolley Landscape Architects. The project involved creating a sustainable roof top garden for the Chancellor’s Court, part of the University of Leeds. As it was a roof top garden, soil was an issue for the architects. They needed soil that was light in weight but also nutrient-rich to ensure successful growth.

Over 2,500sqm of GRB Plus, the ground protection and stabilisation system from Green-tech, has been installed into the landscape at Donna Nook, on the Lincolnshire Coast

Green-tech has supplied 2,750m2 of GRB PLUS to the recently constructed Newbottle Sports Pavilion in County Durham. Landscape contractors, Sustain Landscapes Ltd installed the GRB PLUS over a three week period to the main and overspill car parks as well as surrounding access areas.

gtSpecifier was approached by Red Rose Forest (RRF) a partnership between six local authorities in the North West looking for a tree planting solution that also considered surface water management. The project required the planting of 3 trees in a 16m permeable trench.

​Pinderfield Hospital in Wakefield West Yorkshire is a brand new, state-of-the-art healthcare facility. The hospital is split over two blocks, five floors on each block covering 88,000m2. The project was completed in April 2010 with the Mona Plant System being some of the last installations on site.

Intensive Roof Garden Substrate installed at prestigious Four Pancras Square development.

gtSpecifier has been involved in the regeneration of Stevenage Town Centre, which is one of the early stages of a 15 year regeneration plan for the town commissioned and managed by Stevenage Borough Council.

A £15m new development of the Business School at the University of Essex, has incorporated over 140 tonnes of Green-tree topsoil into its landscaping and groundworks.