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“Extreme rainfall and severe flooding are becoming increasingly frequent with devastating consequences to homes, local businesses and communities, as we have seen across the North West since New Year’s Day. “Our historic infrastructure cannot withstand the worsening impact of climate change. We must urgently adapt our built environment to become climate resilient and better at managing rainfall, with green and blue infrastructure solutions to reduce flood risk in a natural way." – Paul Morris 📖 Our team has shared their insights on climate resilient and nature-based solutions for Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s newly-published Greater Manchester Sustainable Drainage Design Guide, linked in the comments. The guide aims to support the delivery of SuDS at scale across the city region, to build resilience against climate change and boost the ecological diversity of our urban environment. Want to hear more about how sustainable urban drainage can help to make our built environment more climate resilient? Comment below or drop us a DM. Transport for Greater Manchester Natural Course United Utilities North West Regional Flood & Coastal Committee 📸 credit: Planit #Climateresilience #sustainability #flooding #naturebasedsolutions

Back in the saddle! Our CEO Stephen O'Malley and director Gareth Atkinson are gearing up for the epic ‘Cycle to MIPIM’ in March all in aid of charity, and we’d be grateful for your support 🚴♀️🚴   Club Peloton’s Knight Frank Cycle to MIPIM event is a six day 1350km endurance cycle from London to Cannes, raising funds for amazing causes, Cyclists Fighting Cancer, Coram and Tom AP Rhys Price Memorial Trust.   All cyclists face a gruelling winter training season pedalling hundreds of km a week in preparation, and it’s the latest year our team is undertaking the challenge.   We’d be incredibly grateful for your support, so please DM us if your organisation would like to sponsor or find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHB_aRFN   #Collaboration #CycletoMIPIM #networking #activetravel #charity

🎄 🎅 We're nearly there with our #FestiveCountdown, and what a year it has been for us here at Civic! Just last month, we welcomed MEP consultancy, Watt Energy & Consulting Engineers led by Daniel Watt. Watt have been valued collaborators of ours for many years, and they have a reputation for providing low carbon sustainable design solutions for clients. It was the third addition to our parent company Civic in the last few months, and great to have them join our teams at Civic Engineers, Civic Earth, Civic (Ireland), Civic Heritage and New Practice. #sustainability #collaboration #engineering #team

It’s day ten of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re reflecting on our growing presence in Scotland and our many 2024 milestones 🎄 ⭐ Right on our doorstep in Edinburgh, we were proud champions of Women in Property’s annual People, Place and Innovation Summit ⭐ We shared our experiences of creating climate resilient, community-focussed neighbourhoods with our tour of Northfield Grove in Edinburgh alongside RFB ⭐ Isla Jackson and our team contributed to pioneering research into the performance of raingardens with other fantastic researchers, as part of our work on the Glasgow City Region City Deal ‘Avenues’ project ⭐ We won a British Council for Offices National Award for Statkraft’s The Garment Factory, as structural engineers alongside a fantastic team

Welcoming place experts New Practice added another string to our Civic bow this year, and is the latest highlight as part of our #FestiveCountdown 🎄 Founded in Glasgow and led by Marc Cairns and Becca Thomas, New Practice is known for developing the community, creative and cultural capacity of places to connect people to decision-making processes⭐ Their focus on embedding social value and real collaboration helps us to further build on all the brilliant work our teams are doing to have a positive impact on the environment and enable people to lead happier & healthier lives.

Continuing our #FestiveCountdown, we’re celebrating the positive impact our Manchester studio has made in 2024 🎄 ⭐We won Insider North West Consultancy of the year in recognition of our strengths in sustainability and our values ⭐ A greener, healthier Stretford was unveiled with the completion of the Kingsway redesign for a more connected, community-focussed space with active travel and sustainable urban drainage ⭐Eden at New Bailey, the ground-breaking climate sensitive development we were structural and civil engineers for completed ⭐ Altrincham public realm won ICE North West and Property Week awards for outstanding placemaking, fantastic recognition for the team behind it including Planit, The LK Group, Trafford Council, Simon Fenton Partnership and our team 👏

Day seven of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re celebrating the launch of Civic Heritage in September 🎄 Led by Oliver Cook and Katie Fletcher, Civic Heritage is archaeology and heritage consultancy working across the UK to support residential, commercial and mixed-use developments Understanding the heritage and environmental make-up of our natural and urban landscapes is key to sustainable development, and the team is helping to create healthy, climate resilient places, spaces and communities 🌍 #sustainability #archaeology #heritage #sustainabledevelopment

🎄 ‘Twas the knit before Christmas 😄 (so sorry), and engineers, heritage consultants and place experts were serving up some festive fashion, all in the name of charity..... It’s day six of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re proud to share a sneak peak at our team’s Christmas jumper day last week, where we raised funds for fantastic cause Save the Children International #SavetheChildren #Christmasjumperday #Feelingfestive 🎅

So, we're not sure what happened on Friday to day five of our #FestiveCountdown? 🤔 We think the elves may have been playing their games or perhaps the team Christmas parties started too early 🥳 .....anyway, it's never too late to post so here goes, and we’re in Leeds with our growing team there, celebrating a great year with some fantastic highlights: 🎄 As session partners to UKREiiF, we welcomed more than 250 of our clients, collaborators and colleagues to our event at Bomba Paella as part of the fringe programme.  🎄 We shared our experience of creating resilient neighbourhoods at Climate Innovation District, the UK’s largest sustainable urban living project with fbe Leeds  🎄 We reached exciting milestones at our projects across Yorkshire, including:   - The opening of the penultimate building as part of the refurbishment of Wakefield’s Grade II* listed Rutland Mills into a creative hub, Tileyard North;   Topping out at The Store House, the new retail and student development at Briggate in Leeds  - Completing the restoration of Doncaster Corn Exchange, bringing it back to its former glory  - Sustainable housing at Ordnance Lane in York receiving the green light, a project that will deliver healthy, low carbon homes and green space for the community #Leeds #engineers #sustainability #structures #Yorkshire #transport #urbaninfrastructure #civils Leah Stuart Paul Morris Andrew Elder Billy Brand Hannah Keighley

Our #FestiveCountdown sees us celebrate achievements across our team, with Civic Earth going from strength to strength in 2024 🎄 Just a few of our highlights included: ⭐ Welcoming new team members across our studios and growing our presence across the UK ⭐ Working on landmark projects, including Oldham Council’s Civic Centre, the first step in the plans to transform the town centre; the transformational £65m Blackpool Multiversity, a state-of-the art higher education campus; and the Mayfield development in Manchester, the home of the city’s first new park in 100 years. ⭐ Sharing our insights on soil health, biodiversity and embodied carbon, helping the industry in its response to the climate crisis #soilhealth #biodiversity #geotech #geoenvironmental