Unique Projects wins at the Pro Landscaper Awards 2024

Unique Projects wins at the Pro Landscaper Awards for their QE2 Jubilee Superbloom Floating Meadow Community Green Space under £100,000 Category…..

On Friday 12th July, at Farnham Castle in Surrey, companies from across the industry came together to celebrate exemplar landscaping projects, with a value up to £100k.

This year's Pro Landscaper Awards, in association with Nth Degree, saw a record number of entries and fifteen independent judges from across the UK landscaping industry offered their expertise.

With 67 projects shortlisted across the 12 categories and judged by 15 of the most well respected experts in the landscape industry, the awards acknowledged the challenges of making high-quality, purpose-built spaces with smaller budgets.

We are extremely proud to announce that our QE2 Jubilee Superbloom Floating Meadow won the Community Green Space under £100,000 Category.

Here is how it happened….

In May 2022 Unique Projects received a call to action after the original contractor had to withdraw from the project. An industry collaborator, Richard Bickler of Arbour Landscape Solutions, called to ask if we could help The PIE Factory, a London-based environmental positive impact agency to transform a 300m2 commercial Thames barge into a Floating Meadow for a well known high fashion brand. The brand was the main sponsor for the Superbloom event within the Tower of London. This event was designed to showcase sustainability.

We were only given 3 weeks to work up the methodology, procurement and the entire complex logistics program. We had to pull a multi-skilled team of landscapers together who all shared our vision.

The whole project was built in five 12 hour days by a team of 10 by utilising specialist equipment like a 20t excavator with long reach arm and grab. This required specialist transport and road closures to be organised to get this onto the docks. The team then had to literally move heaven

and earth or rather more than 6000 plants, 80 tons of topsoil, 20 tons of self-binding gravel and weld to the deck 200 linear meters of steel edge….. wearing lifejackets! The #landscaperswearlifejackets was born.

On the sixth day, it was towed from The Royal Docks to its mooring at Tower Bridge by a tug powered by biofuel.

The meadow was then maintained for the 10 days while the event was live and the team commuted out to the barge by boat in the evenings to water and maintain it. The whole project was then dismantled in 2 days and all the materials and plants were recycled, repurposed or rehomed to hospitals, schools and doctors surgeries in and around London for the enjoyment of the community. Both the construction and our team's transport and activity were analysed throughout the project and all the data captured to underline that this project was a responsible environmental carbon measured scheme.

You can view the full project here: https://www.uniqueprojectsdevon.co.uk/case-studies/burberry-floating-meadow-tower-bridge/

Tony Goodridge, Director, said,
“We feel this is a great achievement as the team at Pro Landscaper were overwhelmed with the number of responses received, and the judges affirmed that the standard of projects in the UK landscaping sector is quite astounding.”

Ben Browning, Director, commented,
“This project was testament to what a collaborative exercise can produce. We were extremely proud of our team and the suppliers that sat behind it to make this possible and a particular thanks to the team at The Royal Docks for their stalwart support in the venture.”

We are extremely proud to have won these awards and look forward to entering more exciting and innovative projects at next year’s awards.

Collaborators:

Pie Factory: www.wearepie.com

Testimonial: “The landscaping, construction and horticultural expertise and experience that Ben, Tony and their amazing team at Unique Projects brought to the project was paramount to its overall success.” Mick Marks, Managing Director, The PIE Factory

Arbour Landscape Solutions: www.arbourlandscapesolutions.co.uk

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Contact details:
Ben Browning | Director
Tel: 07971 567069
Email: ben@uniqueprojectsdevon.co.uk
Website: www.uniqueprojectsdevon.co.uk