Arc Biodiversity and Climate

Shaping Better Places for People and Wildlife

Services:

Shaping Newport - Shaping Better Places

Place Design

Shaping Better Places Framework

The Shaping Better Places Framework is a simple and effective method for enhancing your project's environmental performance, ecological value, and social impact. It enables you to maximize sustainability and resilience, minimize waste, and ensure lasting benefits for people, places, and wildlife.

Products

Intentional Habitats

The Artecology Research and Development department is a global leader in pioneering the creation of intentional habitats and biodiversity-enhancing products for use in the built environment. We develop products such as Vertipools and Refugia Panels using a combination of 3D modelling, design, and hand-crafting techniques.

Training

Workshops, Mentoring and CoCreate

We can support your project teams by providing a variety of training formats to suit your needs: Facilitated stakeholder workshops and community consultation, organisational mentoring and CPD, CoCreate, place-based knowledge transfer for skills development in ecological engineering.

Projects:

Shaping Better Places

Wild Glades

We helped The Glades shopping centre to invite wildlife to find a home on the roof of their building and their local community to discover the natural world.

Intentional Habitats

Blyth Vertipool Array

Groundwork North East and Cumbria commissioned the biggest single Vertipool array installation in the world.

CoCreate

Groundwork North East

Securing biodiversity net gain on coastal structures through ecological engineering enhancements advice and creation of intentional habitat creation through our Shaping Better Places Framework.

Social Stream

Place Plan Heads-Up! Sharing invite for the Bay Area Action Plan - if you live, work or play in the Bay like us (that's Yaverland, Sandown, Lake, Shanklin and right up to the tip!), here's the first and experimental Bay Place Plan catch-up for you.
Yay! Here's something to smile about! International Day of Biospheres celebrated over 750 sites in 136 countries yesterday, 3rd November. @unesco_mab writes, 'With each passing year, the urgency of tackling environmental issues becomes clearer: we
Did you know... that Arc are helping to draft the Isle of Wight's Local Nature Recovery Strategy, @islandnature_iow? We mentioned it a while back but our team of ecologists and other -ists were commissioned by the Isle of Wight Council in Septembe
Bay Area Action Plan goes live!