Increasingly, blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is being implemented to deliver multiple benefits including flood risk management; air quality improvement; amenity provision; carbon sequestration; increased biodiversity; and health and wellbeing.
To efficiently manage BGI it is important to have an appropriate asset management framework that documents its location, cost, required maintenance, risks and potential consequences of its failure, its functional life expectancy and means of disposal or renewal. It is also important to quantify the benefits that BGI create so that BGI projects can be equitably assessed and prioritised for investment alongside more traditional infrastructure projects.
Project status
Phase 1 - Development of guiding principles - underway
Currently seeking funding for Phase 2 - Production of guidance
Further information
For further information download the project proposal below and to get involved, please contact Louise Walker or Adrien Baudrimont at CIRIA.
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