Group Offers Green Wall Course

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) announced the launch of Green Walls 101: Introduction to Systems and Design, a full day professional course covering the many benefits, design and implementation strategies for these technologies which allow plants to grow on the exterior or interior of buildings.

“Green walls have enormous potential to improve the health and well being of people by filtering air pollution, reducing energy use, cutting greenhouse gases and providing higher quality outdoor environments in our hotter and hotter urban spaces,” said Steven Peck, Founder and President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. “We are very pleased to have assembled the World’s best Green Wall experts to develop this new course."

“Much more than rooftops and planes out of our pedestrian view, walls of concrete, steel and glass surround us and define space in our world," said Reuben Freed of greenscreen and Chair of GRHC’s Green Walls Corporate Members Committee. "With green wall technology, panels and cable systems to support them, vines and climbing plants have the ability to selectively define, create and cover vertical surfaces within our field of view with a colorful, natural tapestry of leaves and flowers. The appeal of successful green walls is intuitive and visceral; they bring a natural exuberance to designed structures, and deliver a maximum of beauty from a minimum requirement of space, providing shade, privacy, comfort and vital, visual relief from the hardscape surrounding us."

The course features leading green wall technologies from Jakob USA, Carl Stahl DecorCable, Inc, greenscreen and Elevated Landscape Technologies.  It will be available in cities across North America for the first time this Fall, including San Francisco, Washington, New York and Boston.