Category: Streets
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Vertical Mobile Garden
Consists of living wall modules, which are wire frame cubes attached to a hook lift container platform. The vegetation cover is highly diverse, showcasing the potential of living walls to enhance amenity value and promote biodiversity. A light, partially vegetated open roof structure provides shade. The Green Living Room offers immediate benefits such as clean…
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Planting of Individual Trees
Strategic planning of individual trees or series of trees in urban areas to provide shade, reduce urban heat and reduce urban runoff. Benefits (+) Provide shade for citizens and reduce urban heat(+) Provide habitat for urban animals such as birds and insect(+) Reduce urban runoff and heat islands Limitations (-) Some tree species can have…
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Planted Channels and Rills
Shallow open surface water channels collect water, slow down the velocity and provide storage for silt deposited from runoff. Can be incorporated into the upper parts of a chain of NBS. Greening of the channels enhances amenity and biodiversity. Benefits (+) Capture of runoff at the beginning of a SuDS train, allowing the deposition of…
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Permeable Paving System
Green paving systems replace grey urban pavements with up to 50% vegetal soil with high drainage capacity. Several implementation designs exist such as paving bricks containing a certain share of space for vegetation growth space, or grass bricks that replace certain bricks of conventional pavements. Benefits (+) Reducing surface runoff.(+) They infiltrate, treat, and store…
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Parklets
Parklet provides opportunities for people to create small but important public spaces in the street or neighbourhood. It also turns a portion of the street beside the sidewalk into a people-only area and offers features including benches, vegetation, bike parking, and artwork. In another words, parklets promotes walking and bicycling. Benefits (+) multifunctional specially when…
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Natural Pollinator’s Modules
These areas are intended to attract pollinators and overall biodiversity by offering favourable weather conditions, such as cooler spots during hot periods and shelters for winter. They will also provide water and food sources for pollinators. Benefits (+) Emitting of pleasant aromas.(+) Indirect provider for the food such as contributing in the pollination process. Limitations…
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Infiltration Trenches
Infiltration trenches are shallow excavations filled with rubble or stone that allow water to infiltrate into the surrounding soils from the bottom and sides of the trench. The basins are flat areas planted with grass and normally dry. Benefits (+) Add aesthetic value(+) Reduction of pollutant load Limitations (-) Risk of introducing pollutants to groundwater…
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Green Walls
Green wall are vertical green infrastructure interventions. They provide infiltration areas for water and mainly function as visual and noise barriers between roads/industrial areas and public spaces. The vegetation grows directly on the wall, or climbs on a frame or already structured wall, but keeps a small distance from the wall. Benefits (+) Aesthetically important(+)…
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Green Roofs
Green roofs are multi-layered systems designed for stormwater management, beginning with a well-insulated, structurally sound roof as the base layer. Benefits (+) No need for additional land(+) Habitat provision(+) Provide usable green space Limitations (-) Requirements for structural support(-) Not applicable for wooden roofs Assessment
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Green Paths for Cycling
Involves green pavements with special filtering properties suitable for pedestrians and cyclists. These pavements manage water runoff and are designed for use in cycle pedestrian areas. By reducing the speed of cyclists in busy pedestrian zones, these pavements help prevent small flood accumulations. Additionally, the collected water can be used to irrigate other NBS, such…