3D attributed models for addressing environmental and engineering geoscience problems in areas of urban regeneration – a case study in Glasgow, UK

Joanne Merritt, Alison Monaghan, David Entwisle, Andrew Hughes, Diarmad Campbell, and Mike Browne discuss how BGS modelling of environmental and engineering geoscience data is aiding Glasgow’s planners and developers in regenerating city land use. The City of Glasgow is situated on and around the lower floodplain and inner estuary of the River Clyde in the west of Scotland, UK. Glasgow’s urban hinterland once was one of Europe’s leading centres of heavy industry, and of ship building in particular. The industries were originally fed by locally mined coal and ironstone. In common with many European cities, the heavy industries declined and Glasgow was left with a legacy of industrial dereliction, widespread undermining, and extensive vacant and contaminated sites, some the infilled sites of clay pits and sand and gravel workings.