Biotecture and Balfour Beatty Living Places are set to fork up a UK first on behalf of Southampton City Council , as works to set up the first hydroponic living bulwark on a highways scheme start this summer .
Hydroponic life walls are sustainable , erect instalment containing living plants and foliage which acquire without the penury for soil . These gullible and support structures help to remove air pollutants through the absorption of gas such as Carbon Dioxide , Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide , as well as hazardous particulate thing .
Forming part of the newly reconstructed Millbrook Roundabout that Balfour Beatty Living Places successfully completed in advance of agenda earlier this class , the company will now deploy the understructure and six - metre - high-pitched steel frame , while Biotecture will design and set the hydroponic living paries .
Balfour Beatty Living Places Managing Director , Steve Helliwell , said : “ We are fabulously proud to be working with Southampton City Council and Biotecture on this flagship projection – a first in the UK . This is a project which has the potency to translate the path we sustainably deliver main road schema across the industriousness .
“ Sustainability is at the meat of what we do and in the solutions we provide to our customer . Through this project , we will not only ameliorate air caliber for local residents but improve the aesthetic of the roundabout for the travelling populace and the wider community of interests in Southampton . ”
" We have committed to making Southampton a fresh , green , sustainable and successful metropolis through our Green City Charter . The Living Wall project at Millbrook Roundabout is the first of its sort in the UK . It ’s an exciting mode to make our public spaces more attractive whilst at the same time having a good outcome on the environs . vest in greening project like this will play an important part in safeguard our local environment for future generations " , say Cllr Jacqui Rayment , Cabinet Member for Transport & Public Realm .
Richard Sabin , Managing Director of Biotecture , said : “ Yet to be seen on the UK route web , the Millbrook green column are evocative of the Via Verde main road pillar in Mexico City , and they ’ll aid with aviation contamination reduction . We are very activated to be working on this flagship dodging in Southampton . ”
Works commenced this summertime with project completion expected in fall 2019 .
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