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Australia’s largest Junglefy Breathing Wall opens in Melbourne

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Australia’s largest Junglefy Breathing Wall opens in Melbourne

Australia’s largest Junglefy Breathing Wall opens in Melbourne L-R: Jock Gammon, Junglefy; Deputy Mayor Arron Wood, City of Melbourne; Scott Mosley, Lendlease Australia’s largest Breathing Wall was unveiled on Friday 13 October at 485 La Trobe Street in Melbourne. At 88sqm, the large-scale Breathing Wall sets an aspirational benchmark for incorporating living infrastructure in our cities. The Junglefy Breathing Wall was officially opened by Scott Mosely from Australian Prime Property Fund Commercial, Lendlease and Deputy Lord Mayor from the City of Melbourne, Arron Wood who said, “The refurbishment at 485 La Trobe St demonstrates Lendlease’s ability to reposition an asset with sustainability as the first principle, guiding [...]

Vanessa Lasses 2017-10-19T11:21:52+00:00 October 18th, 2017|Categories: Breathing Wall, Events, Industry News, Living Infrastructure, News|Tags: Biophilia, Breathing Wall, green infrastructure, Green Wall, green walls, green workplaces, junglefy, lend lease, living infrastructure|

Sydney Design Awards for Breathing Wall projects

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Sydney Design Awards for Breathing Wall projects

Sydney Design Awards for Breathing Wall projects The Atlassian office in Sydney has received a Gold Award at the 2017 Sydney Design Awards for its interior office fitout by Siren Design. The fitout, featuring cascading plants and the Junglefy Breathing Wall, fulfilled the brief to create a practical and flexible workspace whilst providing a unique and highly creative space that would live up to Atlassian’s credentials as “The Best Place to Work”. Receiving Silver in the Sydney Design Awards, is Orange Regional Museum for its architecture by Crone. The project was recognised for its innovative blend of architecture, public meeting place and [...]

Vanessa Lasses 2017-09-04T16:24:10+00:00 September 4th, 2017|Categories: Awards, Breathing Wall, Green Roofs, Living Infrastructure, News|Tags: barangaroo, Breathing Wall, Crone, green roof, Green Wall, lend lease, living infrastructure, Siren|

Junglefy Breathing Wall Wins 2017 Good Design® Award

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Junglefy Breathing Wall Wins 2017 Good Design® Award

Junglefy Breathing Wall Wins 2017 Good Design® Award Good Design Award 2017 Best In Category 'Product Design, Commercial and Industrial': Junglefy, Breathing Wall! June 9th 2017 - We won! The Junglefy Breathing Wall has received the Best In Category Award for Commercial and Industrial Product Design at the 2017 Good Design® Awards. According to the Jury “We were blown away by the modularity and versatility of the wall and its components. This is a beautiful example where nature, technology and elegant interior architecture are all seamlessly blend into each other. More like this please.” This is Junglefy’s second award win for its Breathing Wall system and its fourth [...]

admin 2017-06-13T22:21:57+00:00 June 13th, 2017|Categories: Awards|Tags: award, Breathing Wall|

Green motorways. Contradiction in terms or potential reality?

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Green motorways. Contradiction in terms or potential reality?

Green motorways. Contradiction in terms or potential reality? This article was first published in Sourceable A few years ago I was stuck in hellish Sydney traffic, with the temperature soaring close to 40oC, and as I entered the tunnel surrounded by huge walls of concrete, pollution and heat haze and I suddenly thought, ‘this is a great place for plants’. It sounds crazy, but the right plants combined with the right technology could do wonders for this harsh urban infrastructure, and I believe that science, investment and pure necessity are all at the perfect meeting point to make it viable, and I would argue essential, to turn it green [...]

admin 2017-06-14T12:51:19+00:00 May 30th, 2017|Categories: Published Articles|Tags: Air Pollution, Breathing Wall, green infrastructure, living infrastructure, urban development|

An assessment of the potential fungal bioaerosol production from an active living wall

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An assessment of the potential fungal bioaerosol production from an active living wall

The team at UTS recently had an article published in the academic journal Building and Environment, Volume 111, January 2017. Here's an abstract of the article: Active living walls, or indoor air biofilters, have been proposed as a sustainable and aesthetic means of improving indoor air quality. However these systems have yet to be adequately assessed for their potential contribution to airborne fungal proliferation in indoor spaces. The current work represents a simulation study to determine, under realistic office conditions, whether a typical active living wall makes a quantifiable contribution to the airborne aeromycota. We found that the living wall studied made no significant contribution to the density or diversity of [...]

Hanna Gammon 2017-06-11T17:18:33+00:00 January 30th, 2017|Categories: Published Articles|Tags: Air Pollution, Biophilia, Breathing Wall, Green Wall, green walls, junglefy, living infrastructure, Research, UTS, VOCs|

Sourceable: What is research commercialisation?

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Sourceable: What is research commercialisation?

Research commercialisation refers to the process through which ideas or research are transformed into marketable products, capital gains, income from licences and/or revenue from the sale of new product. Recently, my firm landed an Innovation Connections grant from the federal government to identify an opportunity to work with a research organisation to test and develop a new idea. This new idea is a modular, living green wall system that accelerates the removal of air pollutants like CO2, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds faster than any other plant-based system on the market. The government grant allowed us to partner with the Plants and Indoor Environmental Quality Research Group at [...]

Jock Gammon 2017-06-11T17:31:10+00:00 January 20th, 2017|Categories: Published Articles|Tags: Breathing Wall, commercialisation, junglefy, living infrastructure, Research, sustainability|

Industry leaders praise the Junglefy Breathing Wall

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Industry leaders praise the Junglefy Breathing Wall

A recent tour of the Plants and Environmental Quality research lab at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) saw sustainable building leaders applaud the award-winning Junglefy Breathing Wall and its benefits. A 10m2 Junglefy Breathing Wall filters 8,400 litres of air every minute. It also removes up to 15 litres of pure carbon dioxide (CO2) each hour, offsetting the respiratory emissions of two to three building occupants during a standard working day. Maria Atkinson, Sustainability Strategist and Director at Maria Atkinson Consulting said: “What I saw on the research of the Junglefy plant system just blew my mind. How fast the plants were able to purify the air – [...]

Hanna Gammon 2017-06-11T17:59:00+00:00 December 2nd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Active Design, Air Pollution, Biophilia, Breathing Wall, Green Wall, green walls, green workplaces, Health, junglefy, living infrastructure, Research, sustainability, UTS|

Junglefy wins Sustainability Award

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Junglefy wins Sustainability Award

We are thrilled to announce that last night our Junglefy Breathing Wall won the Green Building Product award at the 2016 Sustainability Awards hosted by Architecture & Design Magazine. The Green Building Product award recognises a new product or material, which helps advance progress in the sustainable built environment. According to the judges: 'the performance data derived from University of Technology Sydney testing will reassure building designers that choosing a Junglefy Breathing Wall is actually proven to accelerate the removal of air pollutants and thus help provide safer, more comfortable and productive working and living environments'. Accepting this award was a huge honour and recognition that others are as excited as we are [...]

Hanna Gammon 2017-06-11T17:59:01+00:00 October 14th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Air Pollution, barangaroo, Biophilia, Breathing Wall, Green Wall, green walls, junglefy, lend lease, living infrastructure, Research, sustainability, UTS|

Award nominations for Junglefy Breathing Wall

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Award nominations for Junglefy Breathing Wall

It’s award season and we’re holding our breath for the Breathing Wall. The Junglefy Breathing Wall has been nominated as a finalist for three awards! We’re pretty excited about our Breathing Wall and to know others are as excited as we are is fantastic. Here’s what the Green Globe judges said when they announced us as a finalist: “Plants cleaning the air, saving energy and beautifying our workplaces… brilliant!” Aww shucks, we think so too. Now here’s a bit about each of the awards we’re up for: Architecture & Design 2016 Sustainability Awards Established in 2007, the Architecture & Design Sustainability Awards celebrate excellence in sustainable design and building. In [...]

Hanna Gammon 2017-06-11T17:59:01+00:00 October 11th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Active Design, Air Pollution, Biophilia, Breathing Wall, green walls, green workplaces, junglefy, lend lease, living infrastructure, Research, sustainability, UTS|

Junglefy Breathing Wall @ SEE Sustainable Experience

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Junglefy Breathing Wall @ SEE Sustainable Experience

Junglefy was a production partner last week at the second annual SEE Sustainable Experience event. We provided a couple of stand alone Junglefy Breathing Wall prototypes at the entry to the expo and Suzie Barnett (Good Marketing & PR) facilitated a session with Dr Fraser Torpy (UTS), Matt Williams (Lend Lease) and myself on the importance of science in living infrastructure systems, in particular the research behind the Junglefy Breathing Wall and how this impacted on the commercial decision at Lendlease to install it into their new global HQ in Barangaroo, Sydney. It was fantastic to be able to finally tell this story, here is a little summary on what [...]