

It is believed to have been the largest domestic military construction project during the World War Two and played a vital logistical role in operations such as Overlord (D-Day).
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Graven Hill was constructed in the 1940s as a MOD logistics depot. Working alongside our landscape colleagues, a mosaic of wildlife habitats will be created, combining retained hedgerows and woodland with new wetlands and areas of wildflower rich meadows. Our ecology team has devised a Habitat Creation and Management Plan, in order to discharge ecological planning conditions. This land contamination assessment has been undertaken in co-ordination with the geotechnical assessment to ensure efficient re-use of soils on site in a sustainable manner.Īs an operational MOD base set in a large green estate, the site has a wide range of ecological interest, including specially protected wildlife species. Our assessment has indicated that there is, surprisingly for a MOD site, very little ground contamination and there will be minimal remediation. Our ongoing involvement with the scheme includes ground engineering, land contamination and remediation, sustainable drainage and SuDS, highways and infrastructure, traffic and transportation, ecology, landscape, archaeology and heritage, air quality and noise.
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Waterman was appointed in January 2013 to provide full engineering and environmental consultancy services to the project. The first ten self-build homes to be built were featured in Kevin McCloud’s Channel 4 series, Grand Designs in the summer of 2019. The site will also accommodate 1,000,000 sq ft of commercial space and create up to 2,000 new jobs. Outline planning is in place for up to 1,900 new self-build homes, along with a new village centre with local amenities and employment space. The brand identity for This Way Up was designed by M35.Graven Hill is a unique 187 ha development located just to the south of Bicester, Oxfordshire, and will become the UK’s largest self-build housing scheme. ** This Way Up’s schedule in November is subject to Covid-19 restrictions.

This Way Up aims to challenge and excite with a diverse program of speakers, sessions and topics that will fire attendees up around the stuff that really matters to creatively-minded folks,” he said.Ī raft of educational courses such as AWARD Craft, Creative Leadership and CPC Mentoring, and unmissable networking events including AWARD 40th celebrations and Hall of Fame inductions, will also be held during the week-long festival - details of which will be announced in coming weeks. “It’s about time we gathered the brightest minds to offer inspiration and a chance to connect more meaningfully around creativity. “This Way Up is gearing to be an unmissable event on the ad industry’s calendar, bringing together Australia’s advertising and marketing community for a week of immersion in our business,” said AWARD Chair Cam Blackely. While Paul McIntyre, Executive Editor at Mi3, will moderate two industry panels with marketers from blue-chip corporations and start-ups spotlighting what they expect and how they want to work with agencies to create more compelling, viable and creative content. Google will present the AWARD Work Behind the Work - panel sessions that go behind-the-scenes to unpack the inspiration, creativity and process behind AWARD winning advertising campaigns from the last year.

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They will head a stellar line-up of local and international speakers as part of a series of interactive panel sessions and keynote presentations, including The Monkey’s NZ’s Damon Stapleton, who will challenge perceptions and get attendees talking with a keynote session that poses the question: “WTF is creativity anyway?” Goodby and Graf’s keynote session will debate “Self importance and the death of humour,” delving into their back catalogue of acclaimed work to look at the role comedy plays in creativity and why we need to start having fun again. The eagerly-awaited festival has been rescheduled to 3-9 November due to lockdown and will take place at The Ovolo Hotel in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo with a feast of events that will challenge and excite delegates by exploring creative boundaries and celebrating the very best thinking in Australia and around the world.

AWARD has announced today that two of the world’s most pre-eminent advertising creatives, Jeff Goodby and Gerry Graf, will headline This Way Up: Australia’s Advertising Festival of Creativity - to be held in the latter half of Melbourne Cup week (covid-19 restrictions permitting).
