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Blast EcoShield news and coverage in national media, trade press and government research listings, newest first. Each item links to its source.

Three of the Blast EcoShield team on the stand at RHS Chelsea 2026, holding both awards

Blast EcoShield, 2 September 2026

A Silver Medal and the Young People's Choice at RHS Chelsea: our own account of the exhibit and its two awards.

Blast EcoShield’s Chief Executive at a laboratory bench

BBC Radio 5 Live, 26 May 2026

Dr Rachael Hazael on Naga Munchetty's programme, on how an EcoShield works and on protective engineering that does not read as security. Her interview is in the closing ten minutes of the episode.

The RHS Chelsea 2026 Silver Medal and Young People’s Choice Award certificates on the Blast EcoShield stand

Cranfield University, 22 May 2026

Cranfield's announcement of two awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a Silver Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society and the GreenSTEM Young People's Choice Award, chosen by the RHS Young Reporters. The exhibit is also listed on the RHS GreenSTEM page.

The base of the Blast EcoShield demonstrator at RHS Chelsea 2026, planting held in a weathered steel frame

The Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2026

Front-page coverage of the research behind an EcoShield and its use in crowded places.

The Blast EcoShield demonstrator at RHS Chelsea 2026

UK Research and Innovation, 18 May 2026

Blast EcoShield named as one of six spin-outs to emerge from the Research England commercialisation pilot.

Two of the Blast EcoShield team with the Young People’s Choice Award at Chelsea

The Times, 18 May 2026

Jessica Corner, executive chair of Research England, writing on the commercialisation pilot that Blast EcoShield came out of, under the headline “Our pilot shows how to get innovation from lab to market”.

Close view of the planting and steel upright of the Blast EcoShield demonstrator

MEM News, 22 April 2026

Trade coverage ahead of Chelsea, on the modular barrier and how it is built.

The Blast EcoShield stand at RHS Chelsea 2026, with a panel explaining the science of blast waves

ADS Advance, 22 April 2026

Defence and aerospace trade coverage of the technology and its origins at Cranfield.