Overview
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Green or living walls are becoming popular in sustainable architecture as a means to reduce the overall temperatures of buildings, thereby reducing energy consumption. They can recycle or reuse water (such as grey water) by absorbing the dissolved nutrients and can efficiently utilise limited space for to urban agriculture or urban gardening.
Green walls or living walls consist of modular panels with an irrigation system, a growing medium and vegetation. A number of commercial green wall modules are available on the market. These differ in the material used to make the panels and the growing medium contained within. This project will compare the following aspects of different modules:
- Water usage (volume of water used, moisture levels in growing medium at different times of the day
- Fertiliser requirements (quantity recommended by manufacturer)
- Quantity and quality of run off water (pH, nutrients)
- Performance of plants (survival and growth rates)
- Suitability of plants for SE Queensland subtropical climate
- Testing the suitability of a range of SE Queensland native plants for use in greenwalls
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Tanya Scharaschkin
Ms Susan Loh
