Landscape & Urban Design Issue 43 2020 | Page 50

GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVING URBAN LANDSCAPES WITH LIVING WALLS Increasingly, living walls are playing a major role in transforming urban landscapes where improving sustainability and reducing carbon footprints are key drivers. As well as their visual appeal, living walls reduce air pollution, improve air quality and increase biodiversity – all while lifting people’s spirits. MOST WATER EFFICIENT SYSTEM FIRE SAFETY SPECIFICATION WORKING TOGETHER Biotecture is the only living wall company with a compliant rainscreen cladding system that has been independently tested to CWCT standards. Our B-s3,d2 compliance certification, together with our Engineering Assessment for reaction to fire, confirm excellent levels of fire safety and have proved crucial in recent project specifications in achieving Planning approval criteria. At Biotecture, we offer our partner contractors a choice: we can provide a complete managed service, covering design, installation and maintenance of our living wall systems, or we can supply our product in kit form, along with comprehensive training, so that partners can maximise their returns on our very competitively priced and easy to install modular system, PlantBox. Biotecture has been designing, supplying and maintaining living walls since 2007. Lightweight and flexible, our modular hydroponic system is the most water efficient living wall system as it directs water straight to the root zone and uses three to four times less water than an equivalent area of horizontal landscape. 50 www.landud.co.uk Follow us @ludmagazine