Page 29 - Inside K&A - March 2019

PROJECTS

To date, K&A’s team has undertaken numerous site visits “INVESTING IN THE
and surveys, analysing the water and soil quality in the ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Wadi, detecting any sources of contamination and IN CITIES...MAY NOT ONLY BE
levels of pollution, and defining sources of all water
discharges that are seeping to the Wadi. ECOLOGICALLY AND SOCIALLY
DESIRABLE, BUT ALSO QUITE
Technology has also played a valuable role in
delivering solutions, with K&A employing OFTEN, ECONOMICALLY
its GIS expertise to capture and layer all ADVANTAGEOUS”
data collected from surveys. Moreover, Tony Miller, Ecological Expert at Royal Botanic
environmental studies were conducted Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
on the stagnant water, the existing
vegetation and endangered species “The background for this project
to come up with strategic solutions is the growing interest in restoring
that will help restore and sustain the urban ecosystems,” says Tony Miller,
Wadi’s natural ecosystem. During Ecological Expert at RGBE. “It is now
the planning process, it was very generally accepted that investing in
important for K&A to undertake the ecological infrastructure in cities,
a flood risk assessment to help and the ecological restoration and
prevent and mitigate the social rehabilitation of ecosystems occurring
and economic impacts of in urban areas, may not only be
future extreme flash floods.
ecologically and socially desirable,
K&A associated with but also quite often, economically
Royal Botanical advantageous. Green spaces, such as
Gardens of Edinburgh parks and gardens and “blue spaces”,
(RBGE) will assist including wadis and artificial water
in environmental provide many benefits.”
rehabilitation This project draws on our thirst to shed
and landscape light on cities’ hidden gems, aiming
restoration.
to restore their urban ecosystems
with tailored solutions that are not
only environmentally and socially
sustainable but also reflective of the
local culture, tradition and heritage.
PICNIC
AREAS

OASIS AND LAKE
CAMPING PARKS
AREAS

SUSTAINABLE
ZOO
CAMEL CLUB ECOLOGICAL
AND RACING PARKS AND
WETLAND
PARKS LODGES

SKY RACERS

ZONE - C - RURAL ZONE - D - WILD AREA
AREA