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Scissor lift in action maintaining a city green wall (Image: Fytogreen)

Machinery and green infrastructure

07/07/2023 admin 654 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Michael Casey

Green Infrastructure installations are fast becoming an inclusion in our cities as we work towards finding solutions to mitigate the negative effects of climate change.

These installations, located around our cities, appear on rooftops, sides of buildings, within tight spaces, and in locations that makes the installation and maintenance of green spaces much more difficult than what we commonly install at ground level.… Continue reading

Growing substrate ‘blown’ onto roof garden by the use of a truck mounted hopper (Image: Michael Casey)

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Exploring substrates – no substitution for future infrastructure projects

05/06/2023 Michael Casey 668 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Michael Casey

Substrates provide anchorage for plants and hold water which is key to their survival and growth through their effective absorption and storing of nutrients. Substrates, much like other living organisms, require a careful selection process to ensure they’re fit for purpose for green infrastructure projects.… Continue reading

Folia Apartments biodiversity planting throughout all balcony gardens (Image: Michael Casey)

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Biodiversity built for purpose

04/05/2023 Michael Casey 660 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Michael Casey

Global cities continue to develop at a rapid rate, and with an increase in size comes more people, more built structures, and in a lot of cases fewer green spaces for biodiversity to thrive. To counter the reduction of biodiversity, city planning needs to incorporate larger dedicated green areas rather than commonly creating small green spaces.… Continue reading

Solar panels integrated with green roof on Daramu House, Gadigal Land (Image: Lendlease)

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PV panels and green roof combinations are taking charge

11/04/2023 Michael Casey 960 Views 0 Comments Garden Design, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design

By Michael Casey

Our cities are full of built structures with buildings of all shapes and sizes dominating our skylines, and they all have one thing in common – in most cases, they have an underutilised roof space.

Over the course of decades, roof spaces of all shapes and forms have been used to store HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) installations, and until recently, photovoltaic panels (PV).… Continue reading

Urban forest will play a role in managing the environment (Image: Michael Casey)

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The tricky business of planting and managing trees in our built environment

06/03/2023 Michael Casey 886 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Green Infrastructure, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Michael Casey

Urban greening is becoming an important tool in helping to address climate change by adding greenery into our built environment. The one design inclusion that green infrastructure experts are starting to use more and more is the installation of trees into, and onto, buildings.… Continue reading

Green wall constructed by Evergreen Infrastructure (Image: Michael Casey)

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Greening cities gets a boost with a new Green Infrastructure industry body

09/02/2023 admin 827 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, GreenInfrastructure, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, urbandesign

By Michael Casey

With more than 70% of the global population projected to be living in cities by 2050, coupled with the need to meet sustainability targets in 2030 and 2050, government and city planners will have to rethink how the future of cities will need to look and work.… Continue reading

Parkroyal extensive gardens (Image: Michael Casey)

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Successful plant selection for green infrastructure installations

20/12/2022 Michael Casey 681 Views 0 Comments

By Michael Casey

With urbanisation spreading from the cities into our peri urban environments, we are sure of one thing, our built environments are going to lead to more problems that will affect the ways in which people comfortably live their lives.… Continue reading

Layers of greenery (Image: Karen Smith)

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Singapore’s Khoo Teck Puat Hospital prescribes nature

04/11/2022 Michael Casey 1032 Views 1 Comment

By Michael Casey

In urban environments, we often praise the efforts of designers and planners when the landscape and the built environment merge seamlessly to become one. We enjoy the aesthetics of what greenspaces achieve with grey infrastructure, and even more so when we see evidence of the biodiversity that these green spaces attract.… Continue reading

Tebet Eco Park, South Jakarta (Image: SIURA)

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Park in Jakarta falls victim to its own success

05/10/2022 Michael Casey 962 Views 1 Comment

By Michael Casey

The pilot park in Jakarta that’s fallen victim to its own success quickly implements a revised park management plan.

It was an email I received from an industry news outlet that captured my initial attention related to an innovative project that was in the pipeline for the people of South Jakarta.… Continue reading

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The greener the street, the greater the asset

09/07/2022 Michael Casey 785 Views 0 Comments

By Michael Casey

In most cases, when the term green infrastructure is used in a planning and design context, by default most of us think about green roofs, walls and facades but what about the many other applications that can be used to ensure built environments are designed with the inclusion of plant life. … Continue reading