Vertical Meadow Permanent Facade System

该项目的基础是为建筑立面开发一种创新的永久性“活墙”系统。它是对现有的专利临时生活墙系统的发展，该系统将原生野花草地垂直生长成永久立面系统。生物墙系统的设计是为了鼓励生物多样性和增加城市环境中的绿化。它还被设计为最小化维护需求，这是目前采用的主要障碍之一。垂直草甸生物墙系统的永久版本建立在一个临时垂直草甸生物墙系统的成功商业化基础上，该系统基于建筑工地和其他临时场地的脚手架板。永久性系统，先前已经作为单个面板进行了测试，但由于生产演示器所需的前期投资，其开发已被搁置，同时开发临时版本。该原理的永久版本在英国获得了专利，在其他地方正在申请中。我们在这个项目中开发的永久性生活墙系统的设计原则是一个雨幕幕墙系统，与现有的产品相比，它被认为是一个低成本的系统。垂直草甸技术的原则USP是，它允许植物从种子在原位生长，而不需要温室和预先生长的面板/植物，按照99%的现有垂直绿化系统。与现有系统相比，它的维护成本也很低，每年只需切割一次，大大降低了运营成本。它的设计方式与现有的金属雨幕立面相同，生活方面附着在它们的前面，使其施工友好，因此安装成本更低。它是一种基于金属的系统，使其成为全球唯一满足严格消防安全要求的系统之一。它也可以完全拆卸，以满足循环经济原则。该项目的目的是利用现有的知识产权（IP），并开发新的知识产权，以生产示范性产品，作为大规模的概念验证。我们希望生产一系列互连面积约为40m2的面板。这么大的演示器的好处不仅是测试水如何在模块之间流动，还可以向潜在客户演示系统。它不仅将用于证明技术和环境原则，还将用于证明成本和建设性原则，以便在项目结束后作为产品交付。它也将被用作一个销售工具，通过邀请潜在的客户来查看获胜的项目。示范性产品的开发将允许对生物多样性、循环经济和火灾效益进行评估，作为一种为该产品提供超越其经济节约的强有力的商业案例的方式。

The basis of the project is the development of an innovative new permanent "living wall" system for building facades. It is the development of an existing patented temporary living wall system that grows native wildflower meadows vertically into a permanent facade system. The living wall system has been designed to encourage biodiversity and increase greening within urban environments. It has also been designed to minimise maintenance requirements one of the key barriers to adoption currently.The permanent version of the Vertical Meadow living wall system builds on the successful commercialisation of a temporary Vertical Meadow living wall system based on scaffolding sheeting for construction sites and other temporary sites. The permanent system, has been previously tested as single panels but owing to the upfront investment required to produce a demonstrator its development has been put on hold whilst the temporary version is developed. There is a patent granted on the permanent version for the principle in the UK and pending elsewhere.The design principles of the permanent living wall system we are developing in this project is a rainscreen façade system that has been conceived to be a low cost system compared to the existing offerings. The principle USP of the Vertical Meadow technology is that it allows plants to grow from seed in situ dispensing with greenhouses and pre-growing of panels/plants as per 99% of existing vertical greening systems. It also requires low maintenance requiring one cut per year significantly reducing the operating expense compared to the existing systems. It has been designed in an identical way to existing metal rainscreen facades with the living aspects attached to the front of them making it construction friendly and therefore cheaper to install. It is a metal based system making it one of the only systems globally available that meets strict fire safety requirements. It can also be fully disassembled to meet circular economy principles.The aim of the project is to utilise the existing intellectual property (IP) and develop new IP in the production of a demonstrator as a large-scale proof of concept. We are looking to produce an array of panels that interconnect of approximately 40m2\. The benefit of a demonstrator this big will not only test how water flows between modules but also demonstrate the system to prospective clients. It will be used not only to prove the technical and environmental principles but also the cost and constructive principles in order that this can be delivered as a product following the end of the project. It will also be used as a sales vehicle for winning projects by inviting potential clients to view it.The development of a demonstrator will allow for assessments of the biodiversity, circular economy and fire benefits as a way of providing a strong business case for the product beyond its economic savings.