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Members of our Archaeology team featured on BBC2’s ‘Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo’ last week.

Technical Director, Frank Giecco talked to Michael about the finds that have been unearthed at the Cricket Club excavations as part of ‘Uncovering Roman Carlisle’, an award-winning project that we have been supporting since 2017. Michael visited both the excavation site and our office, where the finds are processed and recorded in our purpose-built facilities which provide finds analysis, palaeoenvironmental processing, post-excavation analysis, publication and outreach.

The Environment Agency has recently published its updated Flood Risk Map for Planning information, which will be fundamental for future planning applications. Technical Director, Emma Keegan highlights the key points below:

Saturday 22nd March is World Water Day!

This year’s theme is glacier preservation, and due to the effects of climate change, glaciers are melting faster than ever changing local and worldwide water cycles.

Associate Director, Dr Matthew Hobson, and Technical Director Frank Giecco recently appeared on What Lies Beneath on ITV News.

Matthew talks about the Roman cremation cemetery in Carlisle where our archaeologists excavated beneath the city centre. The finds showed us an important study of burials and identity in the region. Frank talks about the finds that have been unearthed at the Cricket Club excavations as part of ‘Uncovering Roman Carlisle’, an award-winning project that we have been supporting since 2017.

Congratulations to Technical Director, Elisa Dore and Senior Project Manager, James Hennessey who have both recently achieved the NEC Project Manager Accreditation! The NEC Project Manager Accreditation is recognised worldwide and gives assurance and confidence to clients that practitioners are skilled in fulfilling the requirements of the NEC project leadership role.

To accommodate the demand for our services and new opportunities since being acquired by SLR in October 2024, our offices in Bristol, Edinburgh and London have moved.

These relocations provide newly refurbished open plan and bright contemporary working environments with a range of improved facilities and further room for growth and collaboration with our new colleagues.

Making the world better by wearing a sweater! 🌍 ❤️

Many of our offices have been raising vital money for a number of charities this last week by wearing their Christmas jumpers to the office. 🎄 👕

World Soil Day is held annually on the 5th of December as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources. This year’s theme is ‘Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage’ which underscores the importance of accurate soil data and information in understanding soil characteristics and supporting informed decision making on sustainable soil management for food security.

Protecting soil health and effectively managing the agricultural land that soils support is central to global food security. In the UK, one of the most valuable tools we have for understanding and protecting both soils and food security are the Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) system, which covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Land Classification for Agriculture (LCA) system in Scotland. These classification systems provide a standardised approach to identifying the soils and land that contribute the most to putting food on the table.

Happy 25th GIS Day!
This year’s theme, as part of the 25th anniversary of the event, is ‘Mapping Minds, Shaping the World’, which highlights how geographic information system (GIS) technology has changed the way we perceive, navigate, and shape our world.

Post by Chris Bean, Service Lead for Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Rather than repeat numerous articles and blog posts discussing the announcements from the new Government on restoration of mandatory local housing targets, the concept of grey belts, and the lifting of the effective ban on onshore wind farms and the updates to the NPPF revision on World Town Planning Day it seemed apt to think back to my Urban Design studies on urban development models around the world.