Relief Applications partnered with UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre (Europe & North America Unit) to transform the existing Wind Energy Guidance into the new bilingual Guidance on Wind and Solar Energy Projects in a World Heritage Context. Our team redesigned the user journey, migrated English-and-French content, and released the site on schedule, ensuring that States Parties and developers can more easily balance renewable-energy ambitions with heritage protection.
The legacy “Guidance for Wind Energy Projects” site had grown into a dense collection of references, case studies and technical notes spread across long pages. Mobile navigation was cumbersome, page hierarchies were inconsistent, and every update had to be repeated in French. WHC wanted a redesign that integrated new solar content, worked seamlessly on phones and tablets and remained maintainable inside its custom ColdFusion CMS.
Our approach
First, our designer produced an interactive Figma prototype where a horizontal menu gives one‑click access to every chapter, and collapsible sections cut scrolling time. A floating action button replaces the old mobile side‑bar, opening a quick‑jump panel. To keep authors productive we built an Angular “sandbox” that mirrors the CMS environment; editors could paste draft HTML, see the result instantly and then move the code into TinyMCE. Modular Bootstrap components ensured visual consistency with UNESCO branding. Development and content integration moved forward in weekly sprints, tracked in JIRA. While UNESCO’s team finalised graphics, we converted Word drafts into semantic HTML, first in English then in French. Thanks to this workflow, late‑arriving material could still be published the evening before launch.
Live site: whc.unesco.org/en/renewable-energy
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