Tag Archives: biodiversity

UN Cop16 proved that organisations from around the world understand that there is a critical need to improve biodiversity with new developments, according to Mott MacDonald’s nature services lead.

Creativity is critical for bringing more people into the civil engineering profession, and for ensuring the success of projects, according to senior civil engineering leaders at Institution of Civil Engineering’s (ICE’s) inaugural Ikigai Creative Arts Festival.

A total of £9.7M in funding has been awarded to projects under the latest round of Ofgem and Innovate UK’s strategic innovation fund (SIF), with National Grid and SSEN leading six of the initiatives.

Since being elected in July, the government has announced changes to planning, a schedule for 12 new town sites to be selected, a fund to support renewable energy projects and a move to improve longer-term certainty through a two-year lead time on strategic spending reviews.

Materials supplier Aggregate Industries has published plans to become ‘nature-positive’ by 2030 in its Building progress for a sustainable future strategy.

Currently, for many developers, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is probably considered as another problem to overcome; an additional expense that will reduce their profit margins. Understandably, price becomes a major factor in trying to secure a BNG solution. However, there are compelling reasons why price should not be your primary…

Considerations around a well-designed urban space that positively impact both the natural environment, and human health, are essential to society.

Population growth, urbanisation, and the effects of climate change are challenges that city authorities and communities are facing across the world.

Civil engineers should consider the biodiversity impact of the materials they specify says Expedition Engineering's Eva MacNamara.

A multi-media artist has built a tiny station for insects at London Blackfriars to celebrate biodiversity at the station.