Laser cutting is often regarded as a modern manufacturing process, used in all sorts of applications from range finding, to medical surgery, to manufacturing. But if you think back, many of us will remember when lasers really were cutting edge (pardon the pun!), seen...
Urban sprawl is taking over our green spaces. With an ever increasing population it cannot be helped and is no-one’s fault. It does however mean that survival is a battle for both our new and existing urban trees. To appreciate this fully, we need to understand the...
Why greater urban greening makes financial as well as environmental sense. Since the 1950’s the population of the EU (including the UK for 98% of that time) has increased by 33%, yet the total hard surface area of our cities has grown by more than double that – 78%! I...
How gardens, no matter how small can help offset the stress of life. As we move optimistically into 2021, we cannot help but look back on 2020 with bewilderment. As far as years go it was a shocker of a roller-coaster; not one of ups and downs – more lurching from...
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...
York City Council are in the process of regenerating parts of the Shambles in Roman city York in North Yorkshire - Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma gate, Walmgate and Fossgate. The Council has recently changed the direction of traffic along Fossgate to reduce the volume and overhauled...