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CASE STUDIES
GREENBLUE URBAN
Founded in 1992 GreenBlue Urban
was set up to research and provide
solutions for assisting trees in their
battle to establish in urban spaces.
Onsite manufacturing using 100%
recycled materials, global distribution
and continuous product development
ensures that specifiers and clients
alike are using the best tree pit package
products available in the world.
Selfridges also known as Selfridges
& Co the high-end retail department
store based in London’s Oxford
Street proceeded with a Public realm
development to upgrade the eastern
side of the store on Duke Street and
create a new focal point entrance
to include, as designed by David
Chipperfield new paving and furniture;
a new stone bench and stone drinking
water fountain made of Italian marble
along with planting of four established
trees.
GreenBlue Urban are proud to have
been chosen in the tree planting aspect
from concept to design and installation
of four Liquidambar trees at this high-
profile streetscape redevelopment.
Two years of design team meetings
alongside Djao Rakitine, WSP and Sir
Robert McAlpine enabled GreenBlue
Urban to be fully immersed in the tree
pit detail to ensure optimal tree growth
integration and protection of many
utilities and the paving for years to come
along with minimal maintenance.
Our technical expertise proved
invaluable with the selection of the trees
at a specialised nursery based in the
Netherlands along with the design and
manufacture of four custom handmade
brass tree grilles.
Tel : 0800 018 7797 | Email: [email protected] | Website : www.greenblue.com
GREEN-TECH
John Chambers Wildflower Seed
supplied for innovative new Scottish
Wick Campus
A new £48m Wick Campus project;
part of the Scottish Government
‘Scotland’s Schools for the Future
programme’ was commissioned by the
Highland Council.
The 17,500 sq mt campus replaced
the previous Wick High School and
consolidated a number of existing
primary schools, a nursery, sports
facilities, a community library and
swimming pool; into one integrated
community facility.
The campus formally called the East
Caithness Community Campus was
officially launched in the Summer 2018.
Ashlea Limited, one of the UKs
largest privately-owned commercial
landscaping company, is part of the
supply chain for Morrison Construction
and has undertaken the soft
landscaping to a number of schools
in the central belt of Scotland and in
the Highlands. They were awarded the
contract for soft landscaping which
included wildflower seeding around the
extensive grounds of Wick Campus.
They turned to leading landscape
provider Green-tech who supplied over
300kg of John Chambers Wildflower
Seed for phase 2 of the project, including
a specialist eco species rich lawn mix,
Tel: 01423 332 100 | Email : [email protected] | Website: www.green-tech.co.uk
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planting compost, tree stakes, cross
bars, belting and blocks.
Commenting on the project Stuart
Simpson, a director of Ashlea Limited,
said: “The establishment of the
wildflower areas has been excellent.
It was first seeded in May 2018 during
the very dry period we experienced
this summer. The establishment of the
flowering lawn has been excellent, one
of the best we have ever seen and I am
sure the warm weather was the main
contributing factor.”