Infrastructure & Transport
Transform how you measure and report on nature with scalable an nature intelligence & biodiversity metrics for long-term monitoring, powered by eDNA.
Speak to the teamWhy nature evidence matters in infrastructure & transport
Nature underpins the resilience of every road, railway, reservoir and water network, and the scrutiny on how it is managed is climbing. For UK water the shift is concrete: AMP8 sets the most demanding biodiversity requirements the sector has faced, and chemistry data alone will not satisfy them.
Developers and utilities need evidence of real biological recovery, tracked over the long horizon from consent to operation.
£10.4bn
AMP8 water-sector investment for 2025-0, 77% above AMP7
~2km
of river evidenced per eDNA sample, taken from the bank
0-100
Freshwater Condition Index, calibrated to the Water Framework Directive
Sources: Ofwat PR24 / AMP8; NatureMetrics Freshwater ECI
How NatureMetrics can help
The applications where nature evidence changes the outcome in the infrastructure & transport sector
Roads & rail EIAs
Habitat and protected-species baselines that satisfy consenting authorities and reduce Environmental Impact Assessment rework and objections.
30 year monitoring
Auditable, always-on monitoring that aggregates condition across thousands of sites over the consent-to-operation horizon.
AMP8 nature-based solutions
eDNA captures the macroinvertebrate community to prove Nature based solution interventions are delivering real biological recovery across the catchment.
WFD alignment & WINEP
Replace hazardous field surveys with water and soil sampling, reducing safety risk in remote and sensitive locations.
Invasive and endangered species
eDNA reliably and efficiently finds hard-to-detect species in complex environments. Plus, NatureMetrics Intelligence Platform automatically flags species of interest, reducing the risk of you missing invasive and endangered species.
Solutions for infrastructure and transport
eDNA
Species-level detection from water and soil, replacing hazardous field surveys and catching cryptic species traditional methods miss.
The Nature Intelligence Platform
The portfolio dashboard and system of record that centralises nature data across thousands of sites.
Bioacoustics
Passive acoustic monitoring of birds and bats, central to wind consenting and to continuous early-warning signs
Species & Habitat Insights
Comparable, standardised metrics from site to landscape, to benchmark across a global asset base and track recovery.
Global Nature Risk
A 0-1 nature rik score per site to screen operating, development and legacy assets and prioritise where survey effort matters most.
Permitting and EIA
The portfolio dashboard and system of record that centralises nature data across thousands of sites.
Case study
Leading I&T companies choose NatureMetrics as their nature intelligence partner
Delivering meaningful and lasting change for nature.
10x
more soil species detected
3000
species across fungi, bacteria, vertebrates and soil fauna
Client challenge
Create new woodland habitat as mitigation for biodiversity losses from a major road widening project in Scotland.
Solution
Soil eDNA metabarcoding on 80 samples across four habitat types. On-site teams collected samples with NatureMetrics field kits; laboratory analysis and bioinformatics completed centrally.
Results
Clear, quantitative distinction established between grassland and ancient woodland soil communities — defining the biodiversity baseline the restoration programme.