Bringing Nature into the City: The benefits of living with nature

Eden is an 11-storey office building in Manchester with a host of sustainability goals. This session will focus on the benefits of its living wall. Featuring 350,000 plants and 32 different species the system replaces regular cladding at a reasonable cost. Attracting birds, bees and bugs, it will provide a huge increase in biodiversity. The plants also remove air pollutants, reduce urban temperatures, and ultimately capture carbon. The team behind it will present:

• how and where it can be installed
• what needs to be done to maintain it
• as a soil-based system how it compares to other living wall solutions
• what are the benefits for carbon sequestration and a host of other sustainability metrics

Chairperson Angeli Ganoo-Fletcher, Landscape Director - PRP Speakers Chris Scott, Development Director - Muse Places Steve McIntyre, Principal Environmental Consultant - Viritopia Carolin Gohler, President-Elect - Landscape Institute