Living Walls

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Green Roofs

Benefits of Green Roofs Green Roofs provide financial, personal and environmental benefits. Not only do green roofs improve the look of an asphalt on a roof, it can create an interactive patio, reduce indoor noise, and reduce the indoor temperature of a building by up to 8 degrees during hot weather. This would translate into a savings of up to 25% in air conditioning costs! The environment benefits greatly from green roofing, by helping to reduce city temperature by cooling the air and slowing air movement through urban heat island mitigation. Green roofs also reduce storm water runoff and create a natural habitat for butterflies, insects and songbirds.

What kinds of plants are used in green roofs?
Traditional sedums and succulents are used as well as herbs such as chives and thyme. Coastal and Xeric native wildflowers and groundcovers closely mimic the roof environment.

Biotecture is the the Florida installer for LIVEROOF modular greenroof system. www.liveroof.com

Floating Islands

Water Quality Improvement
Floating Islands are concentrated wetlands - they provide a huge surface area for microbes which remove harmful pollutants from the water. A 266 square foot island provides over an acre of wetland surface area.
Microbes help remove nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and heave metals which enter our waterways through fertilizers and waste product from other human activity.

Water Treatment Wetlands
Effluent ponds, stormwater ponds, farm ponds..... water in these ponds is typically nutrient rich and often in viloation of federal and local environmental regulations. Engineered solutions are typically beyond the reach of many small communities or land owners. With a floating island, you can afford to treat your water.

Habitat Restoration
Fish find shelter and shade, ducks and geese roost on them, and a myriad of small life forms burrow in their fibers... and make a wonderful food source for the above.

Gardens and Parks
Floating islands make an innovative and dramatic display in parks, gardens and zoos while benefitting the water. Golf course ponds are full of nutrients which a floating island can remove naturally.

Beautiful Living Walkways
People always love to walk on water! Whether it be a bridge, a jetty or a pier make it a living system. Custom made floating docks and walkways add to the beauty of the environment.

Benefits of a Living Wall

Air Quality Improvement:

Gaseous pollutants are absorbed through photosynthesis and airborne particulate matter is trapped in the leaves.

Gas exchange by the plants helps to add oxygen to the air therefore helping reduce smog.

Living Walls cool the ambient air temperature (reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect) in cities which means less smog days.

Cleaner air is a direct benefit to asthma suffers the elderly and young who are limited to indoor activities on Bad Air days.

Temperature Regulation:

Living Walls help address the Urban Heat Island Effect which is the phenomenon of thermal differences between developed and underdeveloped areas.

Most of the sun's energy is re-radiated as heat. Planted areas only reflect 20% of the sun's energy.

Living Walls insulate buildings by external shading, cool industrial buildings and create microclimates, which can alter climate of a city as a whole.

Reduction of Storm Water Runoff

Improvements of Building Performance

Studies have shown that plant material growing on a GreenRoof and Living Walls can help a building retain up to 50% of the heat typically lost to convection.