Retrofit design
Wraps around existing street assets with minimal disruption.
Cleaner air, built into everyday streets
Transform existing street-light columns into environmental infrastructure.
OKLUS is developing retrofit environmental infrastructure for carefully governed council pilots. Environmental outcomes, including any contribution to cleaner air, will be tested, measured and reported transparently before wider performance claims are made.
ONE PLATFORM. TWO DEPLOYMENT ROUTES.
Retrofit what is already there. Design it in from the beginning.
The same serviceable OKLUS platform can be explored on suitable existing streets or coordinated earlier within new developments. Each route remains project-specific, evidence-led and subject to technical review.
01 · EXISTING STREETS
Unlock more value from infrastructure already standing.
Retrofit suitable street-light columns and evaluate environmental and operational value through a carefully governed pilot.
Explore the retrofit route ↗
02 · NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Build environmental capability in from the start.
Coordinate suitable locations with lighting, landscape, ecology, public realm and maintenance before specifications are fixed.
Explore new developments ↗Cleaner-air researchUrban biodiversityEnvironmental monitoringEducation and researchUrban cooling & microclimate
A practical pilot foundation
Designed around the realities of everyday streets.
Defined pilot questions
Structured trials built around the decision the route needs to inform.
Highways aware
Designed around sightlines, access, maintenance and review.
Community benefit
Visible greening, education and local engagement.
Responsible materials
Built with circular thinking and responsible recovery in mind.
Maintenance ready
Designed around access, replacement planning and practical site review.
The OKLUS Retrofit Unit
Retrofit environmental infrastructure for everyday streets.
The OKLUS Retrofit Unit is being developed around suitable existing street-light columns. It combines a serviceable physical unit, replaceable living media, planned maintenance and structured pilot learning.
Future OKLUS research could explore monitored habitat modules for locally identified pollinators and other suitable wildlife, subject to ecological review and pilot validation.
- Designed to wrap around existing lamp posts and vertical street assets.
- Low-disruption installation thinking with minimal additional street clutter.
- Living media selected for visual quality, replacement potential and pilot learning.
- Future OKLUS Insights concepts for observations, servicing and transparent evaluation.
FROM CONCEPT TOWARDS PILOT
More engineering. More research. Clearer next decisions.
ENGINEERING & ASSURANCESee the technical questions that must be resolved before a suitable deployment.Technical Assurance →
PLANT SCIENCESee how published research is informing candidate living-media specifications.Plant science →
COOLER ROUTESExplore route-level measurement of shade, surface heat and pedestrian thermal conditions.Cooler Routes →
Illustrative route concepts
Different streets. Different pilots. One careful framework.
OKLUS route concepts can help councils explore school approaches, high streets, bus corridors, parks and riverside paths without treating every location as suitable by default.
Cleaner routes for everyday journeys
Concept-led route planning for schools, streets, parks, bus corridors and community paths.
High streets and bus corridors
Visible environmental infrastructure where everyday movement is already concentrated.
Urban biodiversity
Research-led habitat, planting and ecological connectivity for selected suitable routes.
Explore biodiversity
Materials with future in mind
Responsible material choices and circular recovery thinking supported by Recov.
Evidence-led pilot learning
A careful route to observations, evaluation notes and better-informed public-realm decisions.
Maintenance and aftercare planning
Inspection, servicing and replacement responsibilities considered before installation.
Urban biodiversity infrastructure
Cleaner streets. More connected nature.
Selected OKLUS installations could explore purpose-designed habitat features for urban pollinators and beneficial invertebrates. The research question is whether suitable existing street infrastructure can create small biodiversity stepping stones between parks, verges, waterways, gardens and other pockets of urban nature.
- Integrated habitat features rather than external wooden bug hotels.
- Not every illuminated column would be suitable.
- Ecological benefit would be tested, measured and reported before wider claims are made.
Maintenance and aftercare
Built for review, service and responsible upkeep.
Future pilots should include agreed responsibilities, inspection records, issue reporting and a clear route to pause, adapt, relocate or remove a unit if required. Perrings is being developed as OKLUS’ preferred installation and aftercare support partner.
- Site review and installation planning before any physical pilot.
- Maintenance schedules and living-media replacement planning.
- Qualified partner coordination where specialist competence is required.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT POSITION
A visible route from concept to repeatable deployment.
CURRENT FOCUSEngineering + research-informed specification
ConceptEngineeringResearch-informed specificationPrototypePilotMeasurementIndependent evidenceCase studyRepeatable deployment
OUR MISSION
Better streets around the places that matter most.
Our long-term ambition is to see suitable OKLUS installations supporting streets outside schools and hospitals around the world, while giving the next generation access to the environmental data and ecological learning those installations create.
This is a direction for the company, not a claim that every location is suitable or that environmental outcomes are already proven. Engineering, governed pilots and independent evidence come first.
Healthier community routes
More connected urban nature
Living environmental learning
Read the OKLUS mission →