Introducing HydroPlanter™ – The Ultimate Rain Garden Solution

GreenBlue Urban are excited to announce the launch of a new modular bioretention raingarden system, the HydroPlanter™ The latest product can be retrofitted into highways schemes and on new developments of any size.

Rain Gardens are used to enhance the capacity of the surface water piped drainage network by capturing and storing rainfall, allowing it to soak into the ground or release it slowly back into the piped network.   

Urban Design London – Designing Rain Gardens.

The “Plug and Play” sustainable urban drainage solution can attenuate and cleanse stormwater and provide amenity and biodiversity to new and existing spaces particularly suitable for highway build outs, central reservations and verges. A single modular unit would also be suitable for new housing developments tackling SuDS solutions when space is at a premium. The HydroPanter is an easy to design solution with drag and drop CAD drawings available via the GreenBlue Urban website.

HydroPlanter Raingarden SuDS

The modules are manufactured in the UK from 100% recycled material that can be filled with a soil specification and planted with wildflowers and biodiverse grasses. The concept is flexible, scalable and each unit stacks together to be a convenient solution that any subcontractor can work with and install. Installation is fast, simple and offers significant cost savings to alternative methods.

The complete package is available to include soil, drainage, stone and planting schemes. The HydroPlanter fully meets all requirements of the 4 pillars of SuDS outlined in the CIRIA manual.

Bridget Joyce Square, Australia Road (Robert Bray Associates) image via Landezine-Award

For detailed specification of the new HydroPlanter including internal build ups, suggested planting schemes and UK Hydraulic Performance design tables can be viewed via our dedicated product page here  that also includes a dedicated installation animation.

GreenBlue also offer dedicated SuDS CPD’s with lunch included, should you wish to discover more do express further interest by emailing Hello@greenblueu3stg.wpenginepowered.com or by calling 01580 830800.

 

Kenmont Raingarden – StrataCell Project

Greenblue Urban is the global leading solutions provider in assisting trees and green infrastructure to establish in urban spaces.  Working with local authorities, specifiers and contractors alike we have many case studies that support biodiversity and the need for green infrastructure in our community, see more here

With more than 40 years’ experience in the landscaping industry with an exceptional expertise in planning and design for urban planting stormwater solutions.

 

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