Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, is built along the upper Clyde estuary and lower River Clyde. Areas of central Glasgow form part of an urban regeneration priority for Scotland over the next 25 years.
Finnieston Bridge, Glasgow — sometimes known as Squinty Bridge. BGS © 51.
The is intended to stimulate economic growth and tackle concentrated deprivation resulting from industrial decline.
To underpin this regeneration, the Clyde Urban Super Project (CUSP), led by the BGS, developeda series of shallow-earth 3D models in partnership with Glasgow City Council and other organisations. Thismultidisciplinaryproject aimed to improve knowledge of the subsurface beneath the city of Glasgow and make geoscientific information more accessible to the wide range of users involved in the sustainable regeneration and development of the city.
The CUSP project has been used as an exemplar for other cities in Europe and the wider world. Lessons learnt in Glasgow have been shared, especially through the European Cooperation in (SUB-URBAN; TU1206). This has focused on sustainable urban subsurface use and transforming relationships between those who develop urban subsurface knowledge and those who can benefit most from it — the planners and developers of the cities of tomorrow.
Research themes and main outputs
- 3D attributed geological modelling
- 3D geotechnical modelling
- 3D hydrogeological modelling
- 3D modelling visualisation
- geothermal potential and the UK Geoenergy Observatories
- groundwater in the Clyde valley
- knowledge transfer systems for developers, policymakers and planners
- natural and contaminant geochemistry
- sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
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- Please see our Clyde Basin Geochemical Survey page for further information and information on associated publications.
- Abertay University
- Clyde Gateway
- Deltares
- Glasgow City Council
- Middlesex University
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Glasgow
- University of Strathclyde
- Scottish Enterprise
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)
- South Lanarkshire Council