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idverde provides a wide range of green services, including grounds maintenance, landscape creation, and advice services, to both private and public sectors across the UK.
Working together with our client, Manchester City Football club, the team at idverde created a pilot tree planting scheme which will provide multiple green benefits to the Etihad stadium.
The project started when MCFC approached idverde to discuss the potential to upgrade their green infrastructure around the stadium.
Previous endeavours had been made to initiate some tree planting works; however, all were met with limited success. To enhance the desired result of the works, MCFC provided idverde the criteria and budget required to meet their brief. From here the integrated team worked closely with tree supplier, Hillers, and developed a comprehensive tree scoping matrix, which initially consisted of over 40 varieties of trees.
On an ongoing weekly basis, idverde refined, optimised and elevated the design through discussions to reach a final cut of evergreen trees which will provide greenery all year-round.
Once the initial list had been finalised, we invited MCFC to join us at the Hillers nursery to hand pick their favourite trees that they thought to work best on their site.
This allowed idverde to develop the underground supporting system consisting of a cellular grid structure, which closely resembled the structure idverde previously installed at Sauchiehall Street in Scotland.
In order to do this, our talented team of design experts carried out a detailed site survey to produce a 3D render that enabled the team and stakeholders to easily visualise how the final result should look.
The cells themselves and surrounding infrastructure have been designed to be SUDs enabled. This allows the trees to deal with surface water runoff and retain moisture in the cell structure to provide the perfect growing conditions, all whilst discharging surplus liquid into the existing drainage network.
This was all made possible by the collaboration and coordination of local utility companies, the local council and stakeholders associated with Etihad Stadium.
The 200 tonnes of excavated material was disposed using a local business, Kenny Waste Management, who have established a social enterprise to address inequalities that exist for those that are further let from meaningful employment. idverde believed this was a great opportunity to make them part of our team given our ongoing commitment to this type of activity.
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