| Organisation name |
Arup |
| Organisation type |
Private organisation |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Urban / town planning
- Landscape architecture
- Transport
- Environment
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| Description |
ARUP is a consultancy with a specific interest in designing the public domain and pedestrian and cycle access around large building and infrastructure projects and preparing masterplans for train station precincts, town centres, airports, urban renewal sites etc. These include recommendations on land use, public domain, density, access and movement, built form and landscape. |
| Commenced Work |
More than ten years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Provision of physical infrastructure
- Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
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| Key objectives of HBE activities |
- To strengthen social capital
- To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
- To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
- To reduce crime through more people on the streets / passive surveillance
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active |
- Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
- Reducing urban sprawl
- Providing public open space
- Providing recreational facilities / playgrounds
- Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
- Improving residential and commercial densities, land use mix
- Improving connectivity
- Improving accessibility
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities |
- Advocating for places where people can meet and connect
- Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
- Promoting equitable access to community facilities
- Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
- Influencing proximity to places of employment
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| The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Urban IQ - An Arup methodology which allows key healthy built environment factors to be identified including the quantum pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, the number of people living/working within walking distance of public transport, the level of streetscape activation etc during the design process.
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| Target Population |
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
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| Website |
http://www.arup.com/ |
