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Indoor greening and interior landscaping.
Indoor greening, as the name suggests, is an attempt to landscape the inside of buildings using live plants. Interior landscaping technologies are much the same as green roof and green wall systems in that they are fully integrated landscaping solutions which are professionally designed, installed and maintained. Indoor and outdoor greening can be combined to produce seamless natural environments in urban centres.
The FLL, which produces guidelines for urban greening in Germany will include interior landscaping in their guidelines from 2010 onwards.
It should be noted that indoor greening is maintenance and input intensive. Indoor greening systems require regular monitored irrigation, fertilisation and leaf cleaning to ensure health and correct functioning.
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An indoor greening example |
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Rain water management Rainwater harvesting Harvesting rainwater to reduce demands on high quality potable water for uses that do not require such a high standards of water like washing and irrigation, is becoming more important, globally, as each day passes. Rainwater harvesting is applicable and appropriate in residential, commercial and industrial buildings alike. Rainwater harvesting and storm water runoff management are an important part of green roof technologies. |
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Rainwater Harvesting – A global issue matures By Klaus W. König and Dietmar Sperfeld The English term “Rainwater Harvesting” has been internationally widely accepted. Interestingly enough, the emphasis has not been on the utilisation of rainwater but on its harvesting. |
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Photovoltaics and green roofs; Green roofs and photovoltaic technologies are completely compatible and do not have to compete for roof space. In addition, these two technologies are growing and evolving together. PV installation is exploding around the world. Fifty per cent of all PV panels installed globally are found in Germany. Possibly the main reason for this is the German state policy and legislation which provides subsidies and incentives for PV. |
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Grey water cleaning and irrigation systems in combination with green roofs. Some technologies are highlighted and explained in the Green Roof book by Earth Pledge 2004. download pdf
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Food production on the roofs: Green roof farming provides a fascinating opportunity for green roof technological development. There are examples of green roof food production abound from around the world. On a green roof in Vancouver, for example, 1.400 kg of vegetables were produced in a single season in a local community project. The rooftops of the world provide an unutilised space for horticulture and agriculture. Technologies are being developed to enable the exploitation of this space. Research has been done to develop a range of agriculture on green roofs starting with low tech rice paddies and rising to space age computer controlled high tech intensive hydroponic agriculture. Green roof agriculture also represents an opportunity for a more localised food production infrastructure which can aid in our requirement to reduce CO2 emissions. This applies as much in the third world as in the advanced Western world. |
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