Green facades are the future

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 10:30 in Earth & Climate

Green facades and roofs are a current trend in building. Researcher Marc Ottele focused specifically on facades and sees considerable benefits in creating vertical vegetation. Among other things, the plants help to absorb hazardous fine dust from the air. Ottele obtained his doctorate from TU Delft (The Netherlands) on this subject on Tuesday, 28 June 2011.

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