Constructive Use of Vegetation in Office Buildings

The engineering benefits of plants include acoustics, water polishing, deciduous shading, air scrubbing, humidification and evaporative cooling. Vegetation offers the opportunity to create, at low cost, a building services installation that makes almost no noxious discharges to its surroundings. Plants have been polishing water, filtering and scrubbing air, humidifying and cooling adiabatically long before engineers started creating these processes to deal with the sometimes very difficult conditions in which many of us work.

09-Jun-2004

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