Outdoor Engineering
LIVING WALLS
Living Walls are becoming increasingly popular due to the impressive
list of benefits they deliver. Scotscape is committed to making living
walls more accessible to everyone by driving prices down and continual
research and development of the product.
IMPROVED AIR QUALITY
Living walls breathe air into cities and purify air in interiors - leading to
improved working environments and happier staff. The University of
Lancaster found living walls to be more effective than trees at reducing
nitrogen dioxide in dense urban areas with high pollution levels. This is
due to the nature of city landscapes which trap pollution at street level,
living walls can increase the deposition rate by as much as 40% of
nitrogen dioxide and 60% for particulate matter as the cleaner air from
above the street is introduced.
LIVING WALLS PROVIDE GREAT INSULATION
Keeping buildings cool in the summer and warmer in the winter - creating
proven energy efficiencies. A year long research programme undertaken
at the University of Sheffield and sponsored by Scotscape, exposed
irrefutable evidence of the effectiveness of living walls to cool buildings in
the summer and insulate buildings in the winter.
IMPROVED URBAN BIODIVERSITY
Living walls can ‘mimic’ biodiversity in areas where green has been
stripped away and replaced with the built environment, supporting insects
and birdlife. Scotscape offers a bug habitat to all of our living wall clients to
further promote the message of the benefits that living walls bring to urban
environments.
The additional benefits of living walls include the communication of
values through green aesthetics, reduction of the urban heat island
effect, flood mitigation and the reduction of noise pollution.
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