It’s time to embrace the ‘living wall’ years
Ellina Webb looks at some of the most successful examples of living walls in the UK Over the past few years the number of buildings with living walls both internally and on the external facade …
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Why Hotels should specify Living Walls to communicate Green Credentials?
Hotels across the UK have some great environmental and social initiatives in place, but how do they tell their customers about them? Many sustainability and green messages fall by the wayside – lost in the …
Living Walls for Health and Well-being
Biophilia, the innate human attraction to nature, is a concept that has been recognized for several decades by the scientific and design communities, and intuitively for hundreds of years by the population at large. Biophilic …
Sustainable, secure perimeters for high density urban developments
As our urban centres grow, so pressure builds on our green spaces. The drive to build new domestic, commercial and industrial property is hampered by a lack of available space and a need to often …
You don’t need to think lateral or big to green our new designs
Green has been the in-vogue colour for new developments for several years and it looks like it will remain that way. Of course it’s not the colour green, but the concept of adding living foliage …
You don’t need to think lateral or big to green urban spaces
In its 2012 report on health indicators of sustainable cities, the World Health Organisation recommended 9 square meters of green space per inhabitant of urban spaces. Of course, the WHO was referring predominantly to the …
Greening the urban environment
As the urban environment grows, with new developments taking up brownfield sites and encroaching on greenbelt areas, there is an increasing challenge in ensuring towns and cities incorporate enough greenery and vegetation. The benefits of plants …
International Green Wall Conference 4-5th September 2014
Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent Meeting the Challenge of a Sustainable Urban Future: the contribution of green walls Anyone concerned with the quality of life in urban areas will find the conference of interest. Green walls are …
Green screens key to war on air pollution says Staffordshire University
Green screens will have a bigger and more instant impact on improving air quality than green roofs says Professor John Dover, Head of The Science Centre at Staffordshire University whose team have set up a …
Manchester apartment block gets green facelift
A block of flats owned by Eastlands Homes in east Manchester has been given a green facelift with the installation of a living, ivy wall that runs up the full height of the nine-storey building. …
Mobilane launches a ‘picture’ worth a thousand breaths
Sean Farrell of green screen company Mobilane explains how LivePicture – a living, breathing picture of plants – can enliven any wall, bringing a breath of fresh air to even the most compact interior or …
Green and pleasant screens
They absorb pollutants, deter graffiti artists and have a calming effect on those who live around them. Sean Farrell of green screen supplier Mobilane explains why ‘living walls’ can help us breathe more easily – …
Living hoarding helps hospital become NHS sustainability champion
Urban greening company Treebox has installed a living hoarding at Guy’s Hospital in London to help the hospital minimise its carbon footprint and achieve its ambition of being a sustainability leader in the NHS. Guy’s …
MOBILANE LAUNCHES ‘PICTURE’ WORTH A THOUSAND BREATHS
Leading green screen company Mobilane is breathing fresh air indoors and out with the launch of its latest innovation, LivePicture – a framed arrangement of plants that can be hung on either interior or exterior …
Vertical louvres living wall system takes Treebox to new heights
Urban greening company Treebox has unveiled an innovative style of living wall for use in both residential and commercial projects. Living walls are becoming increasingly popular in both external and internal settings due to their …
LIVING HOARDINGS IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND PROVIDE SECURITY
Mobilane’s Living Hoardings have been installed at Ponders End in Enfield as regeneration work takes place following the 2011 riots. The council has leased the Living Hoardings for three years to help create an aesthetically …
Green Screens Security Fencing
Mobilane Green Screens provide a perimeter security solution which satisfies environmental and social sustainability requirements, and which delivers a wide range of further benefits including; security, aesthetics, improved air quality, low maintenance, ease of installation. …
Green Screens give social housing a lift
Building work does not take place in a vacuum. When a new development is planned and built, careful consideration needs to be given to the environment in which the new building is located. Increasingly, designers …
LIVING, BREATHING, GREEN INTERIORS
Sean Farrell of Mobilane explains how living walls are moving from building exteriors to create healthy interiors. It is widely accepted that greening the urban environment is a positive step towards increasing the sustainability of …
