Intentional Habitats

Artecology is the innovative interdisciplinary research and development department of Arc Biodiversity & Climate. Our clients typically come from, industry, corporate, NGO, and regulator settings. Our work features in current IGGI policy guidelines issued by the UK Environment Agency.

Our design team tirelessly works to bring new eco-engineering ideas to life through product design, prototyping, and testing processes. We also collaborate with research partners and universities to test prototypes before making fully-fledged bioreceptive products ready for use with engineered infrastructure and urban landscapes in marine, freshwater, and land-based developments.

Artecology shapes green lifecycle solutions from new build, to retrofit and repair, from city to sea. Using Nature Based Solutions we are here to help you get to grips with Biodiversity Net Gain and build Natural Capital in line with recommendations and regulations outlined in forthcoming policy linked to the Environment Bill & the U.K Government’s 25-Year Environmental Plan.

Our tried and tested products and services include artificial rockpools (award-winning Vertipools) for the marine environment, Eel Tiles, BioTotem living sculptural way-markers, designed-in habitats, functional public green spaces and wildlife-friendly urban landscapes. Our ongoing work to bring wildlife to urban spaces and places is being used today for climate-change adaptation, tackling coastal squeeze on defended coasts; retrofit urban ecosystem enhancement; in master-planning design guidance for new developments; as a tool for stakeholder engagement, and increasingly, for rethinking public health strategy using our own ‘Shaping Better Places™’ design tool.

We combine the design and build of beautiful installations with ecologically functional planting schemes and habitat creation. By doing this we create hot spots of wildlife activity that provide life-cycle resources for birds, mammals, invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and marine life. Working this way means we enriched environments for wildlife and people alike.

So to conclude, our palette of skills and knowledge is unusually wide-ranging, and as such we are uniquely placed to offer specialist advice on policy and practice in green-grey infrastructure, net gain, natural capital, social capital, and community resilience using tried and tested consultancy and delivery methods.