The name of our program, Green Plants for Green Buildings speaks to the urgent need to educate the influencers and decision makers involved in green building interior systems regarding the environmental multi-tasking function of indoor plants. When fully exploited, interior plants can produce the same desired environmental effects as many 'green' engineered products at a considerably lower cost.
How do plants impact life indoors?
Green Plants for Green Buildings exists to answer just this. An asset to any built environment, plants are actually 'green activists' offering significantly more than decor...
"...in the presence of plants CO2 levels were reduced by 10% in offices in the air-conditioned buildings, and by approximately 25% in the naturally ventilated building."
Tarran, J., Torpy, F & Burchett, M.
Proc 6th Int. Conf. on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings
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In addition to providing visitors with a valuable source of health and environmental information, it is hoped that this site– and our galleries in particular – will help to provide a spark of inspiration when designing the interior of a building.
"Upon discovering my lung capacity had shrunk to 70%, I started using green plants to clean my office air. I hardly knew then that it would lead me to the discovery of a revolutionary approach to office buildings."
Kamal Meattlem
Developer,
GreenSpaces--1.73 million square ft office building
