EDUCATION
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Rain Gardens
A rain garden is an area of land that helps to stop floods. Using special plants, rain gardens collect floodwater and channel it into underground pipes, so the water can’t flood the street or damage any property.
T hroughout the project, one of our key priorities is to engage with local schools to actively promote careers in the construction industry, educate them about construction site safety, encourage careers in STEM, and highlight the work we are undertaking in their community. Currently, we have worked with five schools and delivered two unique custom developed education programmes to over 320 primary-aged pupils. The programmes have been designed specifically for the projects and delivered using a unique cross-curricular approach that enabled educational engage - ment at a time when Covid restrictions meant we could not go to schools in person. Tudor Street & Central Square – Sustainable Infrastructure in the City This project worked with 2 classes in Kitchener Primary School, Cardiff, to deliver a custom-developed programme that explored the impact sustainable infrastructure could have on reducing climate change in their community. We developed an educational pack that delivered lessons on:
A rain garden works by collecting rainwater from streets, driveways and roofs during heavy rain and thunderstorms. Because the rain garden soaks up all the excess water, it helps manage rainfall runoff from hard surfaces.
Rain gardens are important, because they prevent flooding and make Cardiff more wildlife-friendly.
Rain gardens are being built in...
and Cardiff City centre
Rain gardens are also very good for our health, as they stop water pollution and prevent local floods.
Gre n Infrastructure
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Green infrastructure is a complex of multi-functional green space (and other green features) in urban and rural areas, which can deliver environmental and quality of life benefits for communities.
Green infrastructure provides a means to restore natural environmental features to urban life. Green infrastructure can also reduce harmful substances in the air.
Green infrastructure provides areas for water to drain, helps create homes for insects, and improves our environment through the reduction of harmful substances.
Green infrastructure can contribute to areas like parks, gardens and fields.
We can see examples of green infrastructure in places like the River Taff and Grangetown.
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What is sustainability? What is climate change? Sustainable Urban Drainage
Sustainable Transport
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Some examples of sustainable transport are walking, cycling, hybrid cars and car pooling. Walking is good for you and also good for the environment.
Sustainable transport refers to vehicles and ways of travelling that are environmentally friendly (or friendlier than those using fossil fuels).
How can we create a more sustainable city?
“Sustainable transport” also means “healthier ways of transportation”.
• Green infrastructure – rain gardens and living roofs Working alongside a digital illustrator, we delivered the scheme using virtual lessons split into three elements. The first involved delivering a short learning session on each topic and then using that learning to get the pupils to develop ideas and storyboards on what they had learned. Our digital illustrator, then using special software, was able to interact with the pupils in the classroom and help digital cartooning and illustration sessions to help them to bring their ideas to life. Over each session, the pupils developed storyboards on each topic and also created their very own 'Eco Warrior' character. By the end of the project, the pupils had developed storyboards which were then turned into hoardings displayed in their local area to raise awareness of the importance of creating a greener city. 'Year 6 were on their leavers trip today. We passed the Knights Brown construction work and were very excited and proud to see their comic panels on display! Thank you so much for making their work relevant and giving them such a concrete, real life, final outcome.' J.Horner – Kitchener Primary Churchill Way Canal Quarter – The Canal – Past, Present & Future This project worked with four schools within the local area and again was developed specifically for the project. This time we ran an educational programme on the importance that the dock feeder canal had played in history, its construction and how its reopening would impact the city's future. The sessions took the same format as the Tudor/Central Square programme, but this time each school was given its own topic to develop, starting with the historical past, the importance of the canal on the industrial revolution, the reasons for the demise of the canal network and the future of the canal once it is reopened. The end result was the development of a storyboard hoarding sharing the history of the canal and their hopes for the canal in the future. The hoarding was then printed and is displayed on the projects hoardings in the city centre. This cross curricular approach to delivering interactive educational projects resulted in a new educational and visual resource that combined STEM, engi- neering and construction with cartooning, graphic design and illustration that helped to bring the canal from its historic past to how the pupils hope it will be seen and used in the future. At the start of the next term, we will be hosting site visits from the schools so that they can see the project site and admire their own art work in situ.
It benefits our health because there is a reduction in carbon emissions, which means there is less air pollution. It also encourages people to use more active transportation, such as cycling or public transport.
There are lots of examples of how sustainable transport is being implemented in Cardiff. These include additional cycle paths in Wellington Street and Castle Street, and charging stations in St David’s Centre.
Sustainable transport is important for the environment, because it contributes to a reduction in damaging carbon emissions from regular combustion engines.
Cycling is also good for the environment, because it doesn’t emit pollutants.
CHURCHIL WAY
The Purpose of The Canl
The Churchill way canal was part of the 25 mile long Glamorganshire Canal. The Churchill Way Canal was originally built to supply water to the docks in Cardiff bay.
Cardiff owes much of its History to the Industrial revolution, which stimulated the mining industry of South Wales. Cardiff had been transformed from one of the smallest towns in Wales into the largest.
This meant that even during a low tide ships could still export supplies and materials out of Cardiff Docks all over the world. The Canal was first built in 1790.
Churchill Way Canal supplied water to the Docks in Cardiff Bay so that the docks could operate even when the tide was out. This gave Cardiff one of the world’s first twenty-four hour docks, which led to a huge growth in business and population.
Cardiff’s port was handling more coal than any other port in the world. Cardiff became wealthy and prosperous. The industrial revolution changed the lives of the people of Cardiff too. They now went out to work in new industries and factories.
The canal brought many materials like iron and coal from the Welsh valleys to the Docks so that it could be sold all over the world.
Coal, timber and iron were exported from Cardiff Docks. In 1862, two million tonnes of coal were exported from Cardiff. On the eve of the First World War in 1913 coal exports reached their peak at over 13 Million tonnes.
Materials like coal and iron were loaded onto horse drawn boats in the Welsh Valleys and transported to Cardiff docks ready to sell and export.
The Glamorganshire canal was built between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff as a more effective way of transporting people and goods. It was later to become the primary mode of carrying coal to the Docks.
Il ustration & design by CISP Multimedia and pupils of St Mary The Virgin CIW Primary Schol Cardif
CHURCHIL WAY
The Future of the Canl
There is a big, positive plan to reopen the Churchill Way canal.
Churchill Way will be changed, but in a very positive way.
Connecting past and present in a seamless, immaculately engineered system, the new Churchill Way canal quarter will be both functional and aesthetic, with improvements built into every facet of the redesign.
A new engineering scheme has been devised to invigorate new life into this forgotten element of Cardiff's history, embracing a piece of the city's past in order to bring new joy to present and future generations.
Embracing environmentally-friendly methods of engineering, and in conjunction with the idea of repurposing Cardiff's natural past to protect its future, rain gardens will be constructed around the restored canal waterway. These rain gardens are a new and exciting development in green engineering, using vegetation to control floodwater and purify city air by removing pollutants.
The canal will rise and bring life to Chuchill Way.
Chuchill Way canal will be a lovely, fabulous and peaceful place for all.
After more than seventy years out of sight beneath the streets of Cardiff, the Churchill Way canal will finally see the light of day once again. An attractive new canal quarter will be built around the restored waterway, with rain gardens and natural plants providing a comfortable, attractive space for all who choose to visit.
It will reduce pollution, attract wildlife and nature and be great for Cardiff.
With precision engineering and planning being undertaken to restore this forgotten remnant of Cardiff's mighty history, the future of Churchill Way has never looked brighter.
Churchill Way's transformation will bring about a new era for Cardiff, respecting the city's storied past whilst embracing green engineering to create a newer, healthier space for all.
Il ustration & design by CISP Multimedia Ltd and pupils of Tredgarvil e Primary, Cardif
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