An ecological survey is vital in the process of establishing the environmental impact a proposed property development will have on an area of land. With any potential new land development, you must conduct a series of various site surveys.

A systemic process designed to identify and evaluate the potential environmental impacts of a proposed project, an environmental impact assessment, (EIA), is in place to minimise, mitigate and eliminate negative impacts on our environment during the construction process.

Ecology is the study of interactions among living things and their environment, providing a new understanding of these vital systems as they are now and how they may change in the future.

Before you begin developing a site, it’s important that you fully understand the surrounding habitat so that you don’t further endanger any species and so that you can design and construct your development in an informed and safe way.

Just as house designs have a variety of concepts that define their characteristics, as do landscape designs. These are a group of principles that determine the harmoniousness of the overall design and each can be used to achieve particular effects.

If you’re working on a construction project in an area with plenty of trees, it’s important to know which ones may be hazardous before starting work. If a tree is diseased or dying, it could topple over and destroy parts of the project and be a threat to health and safety.

It’s easy to feel powerless in the fight to save the environment but there are lots of small changes we can make in our daily lives to have a smaller environmental impact.

Building something new is always exciting, but construction must be done with care. Every building project could potentially cause a problem with the surrounding environment.

Construction is now underway at The University of Chichester, Bognor Regis Campus, where we have been commissioned to prepare a landscape design strategy for the new Engineering and Digital Technology Park development extension.

RH Partnership has completed work on a new water sports facility for Eastleigh Borough Council. Occupying 60 acres on the outskirts of Eastleigh in Hampshire, Lakeside Country Park’s lakes, wet meadow and woodland attract approximately 10,000 visitors a year.