Green roofs are starting to grow in popularity (Yay!) and hopefully there will continue to be more and more…but must it be limited to the roof? What about a green wall?
PNC Financial Services Group’s Pittsburg location plans on constructing a 2,380 sq. ft., soil-based Green Living™ Wall on the One PNC Plaza’s south exterior wall. It is on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street. This green wall will be the largest in North America, wow!
According to GLT partner and co-founder George Irwin, “The PNC wall was carefully designed with plants that provide a wide variety of textures and color to accommodate not just the geographic region but the existing micro climate. This wall may require just 15 minutes of watering once a week. It also offers cooling for the building. Preliminary studies show a south facing Green Living Wall can be 70 to 80 degrees cooler than other surfaces on the same building.”
All of the plants, hardware, etc that will be used to construct the wall will come from a 500 mile radius of Pittsburg so that the construction is locally done which also reduces the carbon footprint of the project because there will not be a lot of energy used to bring all the necessary products for constructing this massive green wall.
This is such a great idea, why not have green walls when you can have green roofs? I hope other buildings follow with their own green walls.
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