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CASE STUDIES
GREENFIX
Tel: 01608 666027 | email: [email protected]
Website: greenfix.co.uk
The Greenix Envirolok Vegetated
Bag System is designed to provide
permanent vegetated solutions in
a range of applications. In addition
to providing an alternative for
traditional walls, the system can
accommodate a variety of slope
conditions, making it ideal for
watercourse restoration, slope
protection and erosion control.
A recent project in Hampshire
highlighted the lexibility of the
vegetated bag system.
Used to stabilise an undermined
streambank, Greenix’s solution
was selected due to the ease of
moving bags on the restricted site.
The bags were supplied ready illed
with a mixture of soil, gravel and
seed and were built up to ensure
correct interlock between courses.
The grass seed included in the
ready-illed bags had begun to
germinate within a few days of the
bags arriving on site, which in time
will give complete cover of
the bags.
Greenix Envirolok is designed
for simple installation using spikes
to connect the bags vertically
adding sheer strength to walls.
The patented open spike design
will not impede root growth like
solid connector plates. The bag
system is also compatible with
proven reinforcing techniques,
such as Geogrid or earth anchors,
providing added strength for larger
and more complex installations.
Contractor Michael Green said,
“For someone new to installing
Erosion Control, the bags were
easy to use. They bedded well in
the stream and there will be no
problems with scour that a hard
landscaping product would have.”
Standard design details are
available and bespoke design
suggestions can be provided.
LIVINGREEN DESIGN
Tel: 0131 440 9804
email : [email protected]
Website : www.livingreendesign.com
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Landscape Insight | December 2017
This client based in the south
of France came to Livingreen
Design with a problem. They had
a shopping centre that required
planters and benches but they had
been speciied in concrete and
the loor wouldn’t take the weight
loading.
The technical team at Livingreen
Design came up with the perfect
lightweight solution without
spoiling the overall design.
Only three shapes were used
to create attractive planting
areas surrounded by benches in
a colour and inish chosen by the
client, adding Iroko hardwood
slatted seats and LED lights to the
underneath lip of the seats for the
evening.
All of the units joined together
from the inside and cannot be seen
from the outside.
These displays are all
throughout the centre, some
inside and some outside. The
three shapes were also used to
create snake shaped seating areas
throughout other areas.
Everything was handmade at
Livingreen Designs’ facility in
the UK. The irm has hundreds of
standard products and specialises
on bespoke projects, distributing
between 300 – 500 planters a week.
Planters were delivered by truck
directly to the centre.
At Livingreen Design, our
directors are horticulturally
trained so can also offer the best
advice on all planter aspects.
The client was delighted and
said, “It’s always a pleasure to
work with Livingreen Design, a
perfect solution and great service.”