Blog Posts By Category: Living Walls

Living Walls Creates Health and Wellness

There is no doubt that living walls add visual aesthetics to the workplace environment. Studies show that stress reduction, reduced absenteeism and increased performance by office workers are achieved by the installation of interior landscapes. Living walls can have a calming effect on workers viewing living landscapes.

Indoor plants provide a filter for dust, add oxygen and can help regulate humidity.  Improved indoor air quality is another important measurable benefit to providing living walls in workspace environments. Living plants in a green wall can clean and filter the air to reduce volatile organic compounds or VOCs in the work place.  Toxins measured in workplace environments such as formaldehyde, benzene, toluene and other VOCs are attributed to illnesses and labeled as Sick Building Syndrome. Living walls can be composed of plants alone, but living walls with a specific biofilter system increase the capacity of air filtration and a reduction in indoor air toxins on a much higher level as air is drawn through the root zone where much of the work is being done. 

For more information about how living walls can improve your workplace environment and the overall health and well-being of your employees, contact Jim Mumford, CEO and President of San Diego-based Greenscaped Buildings. Greenscaped Buildings designs, installs and maintains living walls, the Nedlaw bio-filter green wall, green roofs, interior and exterior plantscaping and edible walls. 

Walls come to life at Bressi Ranch

We recently completed a living wall at ActivCare at Bressi Ranch a senior living community in Carlsbad, CA that serves the needs of those with memory loss. The facility is a beautiful location and we were delighted to have the opportunity to create a living wall for the property and for the residents to enjoy.

 

TJ Law School's Living Wall!

We've completed the 85' green wall at Thomas Jefferson School of Law! The wall, made of a mixture of succulents with a unique sunburst design, created by Nowell & Associates, is partially installed behind a granite student study counter, and can be seen from the large windows of the student lounge and library.

With the majority of the interior finished and school having already begun, we brought in a crane to hoist up the palette racks that housed the 252 pre-planted modules onto the 5th floor terrace (which, with the increased height of each floor, was actually closer to being 8 stories up)! Luckily, the crane work went off without a hitch, and by the end of the day, school officials were able to see the project nearly completed. In the next few weeks and into a few months, the plants will grow even more, eventually covering the cells and framework currently visible.

We'll be starting in on the lobby atrium in a few weeks! Enjoy the living wall pictures and stay tuned for part II of our work at the beautiful new Thomas Jefferson School of Law building in downtown San Diego!

All the teams were great to work with! We're excited about our continued work with them!