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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #16 Designing green buildings
Description:
Rudi Scheuermann
Do plants hold the key to making cities healthier?
Could we design buildings that don’t take away green space, but
create it?
That don’t demand energy, but generate it?
Rudi Scheuermann of consultant Arup thinks so. By employing
a range of design techniques including cladding structures in living plant
walls and engineering bioreactive facades that generate biogas, he says that greener
buildings can improve air quality, mitigate noise pollution and create
healthier environments.
With over 4.2 billion people living in cities, and buildings
contributing to 36 per cent of glob...