Blue green solutions
Blue Green Solutions is a phrase used to describe urban design solutions that incorporate natural systems into urban areas to mitigate increased pressure on essential resources that urbanisation can bring such as: food and water, increased air pollution due to transportation, loss of biodiversity, increased risk of ill health and so on. Urban pressures such as air and water pollution, noise, flood risk, drought, urban heat island effect and resource use can also have direct impacts on the health and comfort of those living in ciy regions.
These issues are likely to exacerbated by climate change through extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts and heat waves.
Examples of blue green solutions include; green roofs, roof gardens, tree pits, swales, urban wetlands, storm water retention and rainwater harvesting and so on.
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings
- Allotment
- Are sustainable urban drainage systems the response to our changing climate?
- Bioretention system.
- Detention pond.
- Green roof.
- Rainwater harvesting.
- Swale.
- Sustainable urban drainage systems SUDS.
- The use of timber in construction
- Types of rapidly renewable content
- Water consumption.
- Water engineering.
[edit] External Links
Featured articles and news
UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard V1 published
Free-to-access technical standard to enable robust proof of a decarbonising built environment.
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Why talking about prostate cancer matters in construction.
The Architectural Technology podcast: Where it's AT
Catch up for free, subscribe and share with your network.
The Association of Consultant Architects recap
A reintroduction and recap of ACA President; Patrick Inglis' Autumn update.
The Home Energy Model and its wrappers
From SAP to HEM, EPC for MEES and FHS assessment wrappers.
Future Homes Standard Essentials launched
Future Homes Hub launches new campaign to help sector prepare for the implementation of new building standards.
Building Safety recap February, 2026
Our regular run-down of key building safety related events of the month.
Planning reform: draft NPPF and industry responses.
Last chance to comment on proposed changes to the NPPF.
A Regency palace of colour and sensation. Book review.
Delayed, derailed and devalued
How the UK’s planning crisis is undermining British manufacturing.
How much does it cost to build a house?
A brief run down of key considerations from a London based practice.
The need for a National construction careers campaign
Highlighted by CIOB to cut unemployment, reduce skills gap and deliver on housing and infrastructure ambitions.
AI-Driven automation; reducing time, enhancing compliance
Sustainability; not just compliance but rethinking design, material selection, and the supply chains to support them.
Climate Resilience and Adaptation In the Built Environment
New CIOB Technical Information Sheet by Colin Booth, Professor of Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure.
Turning Enquiries into Profitable Construction Projects
Founder of Develop Coaching and author of Building Your Future; Greg Wilkes shares his insights.
IHBC Signpost: Poetry from concrete
Scotland’s fascinating historic concrete and brutalist architecture with the Engine Shed.