Protection that does not signal threat
We design EcoShields, engineered planting that absorbs the pressure wave from a bomb blast, protecting the people on the other side.
Four years of validation at Cranfield University sits behind it, and because it is planting rather than concrete or steel, it brings shade, cooling and habitat to the street or venue it stands on.
Most of what exists to protect a crowded place was built for a perimeter, where nobody minds how it looks. The front of a venue or a civic square is not that kind of ground. Vehicle mitigation, which many sites already have, covers the threat that arrives in a vehicle.
It does nothing about the threat that walks in.
What an EcoShield is
An EcoShield is an engineered planted bank, built on sloped timber A-frames with the timber showing only at the ends of each bank. The planting absorbs overpressure from a blast and dissipates it, so less of that energy reaches the people on the other side. A solid barrier reflects energy instead, and that matters most where people are standing close to it. Every EcoShield is designed to the site it stands on, and it works as one element of a layered plan, alongside bollards, building hardening and the procedures a venue already runs.
The design is the product
We set the geometry of the bank, the angle of its face and the frame that carries it. You choose the planting from a shortlist we recommend for your site. Rachael Hazael led the four years of research behind an EcoShield at Cranfield University and now runs the company. Edward Clinton, who is responsible for how a design becomes something that stands on a site, ran the British Army's Explosive Engineers and spent twenty years on bomb disposal. Gareth Collett, who sits on our advisory board, led the United Kingdom's bomb disposal profession.
The planting is selected for how it behaves under overpressure as well as for how it looks, and it still has to thrive in the conditions of the site it goes into. Two patents are filed on the design, and the technology patent is pending. Both the design and the built work are insured as engineered work. Certificates on request. Groundworks and planting are delivered by partners, to our specification, and every EcoShield is drawn for the site it stands on.
Where it goes
Because it reads as landscape rather than as security equipment, it goes on ground that has to stay welcoming. The concourse where a crowd stands before doors open. The square outside a station. An arena or hotel entrance where the queue forms on the footpath. A high street a Business Improvement District is trying to keep people walking down.
In all of them an EcoShield does protective work in full view, without telling every passer-by that somebody considers this a target.
The habitat is a by-product
The rest follows from the material. A planted bank supports insects and birds in settings that usually offer them nothing, and it dampens crowd and traffic noise. It does not store and throw back heat the way paving and masonry do through a hot summer. None of that is the reason to build one. It is what you get because the protection happens to be alive.
Protective work in full view, wherever a crowd gathers
An EcoShield takes blast energy into planting instead of passing it on. Where it goes on a site changes from one to the next.
Stadia, arenas and large venues.
It gives supporters queuing between your bollards and your turnstiles physical protection of their own. To everyone standing there it is planting.
Shopping centres and retail destinations.
It brings physical protection onto your busiest floors, beside the seating and through the atrium and food court. To shoppers it is simply more greenery.
Developers, Business Improvement Districts and the public realm.
It stands among the people gathered in your square, beyond the bollards at the kerb. The square stays somewhere people choose to meet, sit and linger.
Wedding and private-event venues.
It protects guests gathering in the arrival court and on the reception lawn. To your guests it is part of the garden.
Music festivals.
It gives festival-goers queuing between your perimeter and your search lanes physical protection of their own. The weekend still begins with a walk up to the gate that feels like the start of something good.
Music venues, clubs and late-night.
It forms the lanes where your queue waits for the bag check, in the foyer or on your own forecourt. A night out still feels like a night out.
Government, defence and diplomatic estates.
Conventional hardening suits the service gate. An EcoShield takes the public frontage, and the estate presents a calm, open face to the street.
The evidenceA Cranfield University spin-out, four years tested, shown in public.
Four years
of experimental validation at Cranfield University
Silver
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, with the Young People’s Choice Award
Two patents
filed, with the technology patent pending
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If you would rather read first, the Martyn’s Law guide sets out the five approaches open to a duty holder, including the ones we do not sell, and what each is good and bad at.