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Longo’s Living Wall at Maple Leaf Square Part of Award-Winning Interior

October 17, 2011Media, News,

NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

Suspended two-sided wall first of its kind

BRESLAU, ONTARIO: October 17, 2011 – A two-sided living wall that is a centerpiece of the Longo’s location at Maple Leaf Square in downtown Toronto was recently recognized as part of an award-winning design at the 2011 edition of the ARIDO (Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario) Awards.

The Award of Merit was presented to Sam Chan of Watt International, in recognition of his work at one of the newest Longo’s locations.

“We are honoured to have had the opportunity to work with both Watt International and Longo’s on this project,” says Dr. Alan Darlington, president of NEDLAW Living Walls. “It was an exciting installation to work on and we’re very pleased that the parties involved were recognized for their efforts.” Darlington says the NEDLAW Living Wall installed at the Longo’s Maple Leaf Square location is unique for a number of reasons including the fact that it is below grade and completely artificially lit. Additionally, he notes that this was the first time the company suspended a two-sided living wall. The wall is 16 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

Award winner Chan, says the recognition from ARIDO is rewarding. “The Longo’s store at Maple Leaf Square is a flagship location. It is a very unique location in the sense that it is a full size store, in a basement location that required some creativity to help attract and drive people to the basement to shop. The award from ARIDO in recognition of our efforts to address these challenges and create a wonderful shopping experience for Longo’s customers is very much appreciated.”

Chan notes that the living wall installed as part of his design for the store, is an excellent tie-in with Longo’s ‘a fresh tradition™’ new brand positioning. “The living wall provides a very tangible expression of freshness that is a key part of the Longo’s customer experience.”

Paul Collette, project manager for real estate and construction with Longo’s, says “the living wall plays an important part in establishing the unique grocery environment for shoppers at the Maple Leaf Square location,” adding that its design and functionality are also indicative of the company’s ongoing efforts to raise and contribute to environmental awareness.

The living wall at Longo’s Maple Leaf Square location was built by RFB Construction.

NEDLAW Living Walls improve the aesthetics and physical work environments of the facilities in which they are installed. They bring natural outdoor air cleaning processes inside and use interior plantscapes and a patented air biofilter system to effectively remove many common indoor air contaminants at a fraction of the cost required for traditional ventilation and conditioning systems.

Last year, a NEDLAW Living Wall at One Kids Place in North Bay, Ontario, was recognized through an ARIDO Award as part of the Project of the Year award won by Mitchell Architects Inc. One Kids Place provides a range of services to help children, youth and their families with physical, developmental and communication delays and disabilities.

About NEDLAW Living Walls

NEDLAW’s patented living wall biofilters utilize green plants and beneficial microbes to produce high quality indoor air and beautiful plantscapes. They are the only living walls that act as both biofilters and plantscapes to actively remove chemicals, dust and spores from indoor air, returning fresh air to the living environment. For more information about NEDLAW Living Walls, visit our website.

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For additional information, please contact:

Dr. Alan Darlington
NEDLAW Living Walls
519-648-9779
alan@nedlaw.ca

Paul Collette
Longo’s
905-264-4110 (ext.4321)
paul.collette@longos.com

Sam Chan
Watt International Inc.
416-364-9384 (ext. 521)
schan@wattintl.com

NEDLAW Living Walls and the Nedlaw Living Walls logo are trademarks of NEDLAW Living Walls Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

New Living Wall at Drexel University

September 26, 2011News, , ,
Living wall biofilter in the atrium at Drexel University
Photo credit: Sean Corbett, Drexel University

Nedlaw Living Walls is excited to have completed our project in Philadelphia at Drexel University. This indoor air biofilter appears as a vertical garden in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building and is the centerpiece of the project designed by the Toronto Firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects. Additional photos and project details are available on our project page, and you can also find out more on Drexel University’s website.

Installation of Largest Active Living Wall In U.S. Complete

September 20, 2011Media, News,

NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

Drexel University Home to 1570-Plus Square Foot Biofilter

BRESLAU, ONTARIO; September 20, 2011 – NEDLAW Living Walls has completed the installation of the largest known active living wall in the United States. The 1570-plus square foot structure is located at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was designed and installed as part of the new Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building.

According to Dr. Alan Darlington, president of NEDLAW Living Walls, more than 1100 individual plants and 20-plus different plant types were used to fill the wall. “The active living wall at Drexel University is some 70 feet tall and over 22 feet wide,” says Darlington, noting that the wall, which incorporates the patented NEDLAW Living Walls biofilter system, is capable of generating between 16,000 and 30,000 cubic feet of ‘virtual’ outside air per minute.

The Drexel University wall was designed by NEDLAW Living Walls in collaboration with Toronto-based Diamond and Schmitt Architects as a key component of the sustainable design features of the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, which is targeting LEED Silver designation for energy efficiency. The six-story, 150,000 square-foot building will house 44 research and teaching laboratories for biomedical engineering, biology and organic chemistry, and a fossil preparation lab. Principal architect, Donald Schmitt, says the goal of incorporating the five-story active living wall is to “set a new standard of architectural and sustainable design excellence, one that will engage students and faculty alike in an interactive environment for learning and research.”

According to Dr. Donna Murasko, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, “the living wall not only improves the overall learning environment, but also creates an opportunity for further research into even higher quality living walls in the future.”

Darlington notes that the benefits of an active living wall extend well beyond its aesthetic contribution to the space it inhabits. “Traditionally, air quality systems in buildings replace used, ‘dirty’ indoor air with new outside air. In the summer, this new air must be cooled and in the winter it must be heated before being distributed. This conditioning of the new air represents a substantial portion of the energy costs of a building. An active living wall supplies the same quality air as what you would get outside, at a fraction of the energy cost.”

The patented biofilter system, which appears as a plant wall, is also effective at removing a number of airborne gaseous pollutants that negatively impact indoor air quality. It does this by connecting to the building’s air handling system that is used to draw ‘dirty’ indoor air over the root zone of the plants. As part of this process, the beneficial micro-organisms that make their home in the root zone of the plants, use the airborne pollutants as food and break them down into water and carbon dioxide.

Installation of the active living wall in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building at Drexel University is now complete, with an official opening scheduled for September 20th, for the upcoming academic year.

About NEDLAW Living Walls

NEDLAW’s patented living wall biofilters utilize green plants and beneficial microbes to produce high quality indoor air and beautiful plantscapes. They are the only living walls that act as both biofilters and plantscapes to actively remove chemicals, dust and spores from indoor air, returning fresh air to the living environment. For more information about NEDLAW Living Walls, visit us at www.naturaire.com.

About Diamond and Schmitt Architects

Diamond and Schmitt Architects (www.dsai.ca) is known for design excellence through unremitting attention to user needs and innovative and sustainable design solutions. The Toronto-based firm works worldwide designing academic buildings, medical and research facilities, performing arts centers, mixed-use and commercial buildings. Current projects include the Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Global Innovation Exchange at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Sick Kids Hospital Research Tower in Toronto.

About Drexel University

Founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Drexel is the 14th largest private university in the United States and ranked second among national universities in the U.S. News list of “Up-and-Comers.” Drexel is widely recognized for its focus on experiential learning through its cooperative education program and translational research initiatives.

 

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For additional information, please contact:

Dr. Alan Darlington
NEDLAW Living Walls
519-648-9779
alan@nedlaw.ca

Paul French
Diamond and Schmitt Architects
905-862-880 (ext.454)
pfrench@dsai.ca

Niki Gianakaris
Drexel University
215-895-6741
ngianakaris@drexel.edu

NEDLAW Living Walls and the Nedlaw Living Walls logo are trademarks of NEDLAW Living Walls Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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