MMA GREEN WALLS
35c FOURTH AVENUE
WESTFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
MIDSOMER NORTON
RADSTOCK
SOMERSET BA3 4XE
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Suppliers of: Green Wall Systems, Green Walls, Living Walls, Plant Walls, Jakob Stainless Steel Green Wall Systems
Jakob Stainless Steel Green Wall Systems - From MMA Architectural Systems UK
Green Wall Benefits – our systems combine great design scope with a range of ecological and performance advantages.
- Improves aesthetics: A well designed and maintained Green Living Wall can significantly enhance a building’s appearance – whether for example, it’s to add a new aesthetic dimension, disguise a car park, refresh a tired façade, introduce flora and fauna, or add colour and texture to a complete wall or section.
- Protect building façades: Green wall systems can help to protect a building’s façade and further extend its life. Acting as an effective shield to frost and heavy rain and helping to protect from the damaging effects of UV light.
- Improve air quality: A green wall in an urban area can help improve local air quality. The living walls absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, as well as trap dust and other pollutants. Learn more about how Green Living walls can help clean the air we breath.
- Reduce noise: By adding a layer of insulation (both thermal and acoustic) green walls absorb sound, making a positive impact for both the building’s occupants and the local environment.
- Regulate temperature and reduce carbon footprint: A green wall used on appropriate elevations can reduce energy costs by providing an additional layer of insulation. In the winter, green walls keep heat in, similarly in the summer acting as a screen to the sun, they keep the building cool.
- Provide wildlife habitats: With appropriate planting, a green wall provides an ideal habitat for wildlife. In many cases, it can also provide an alternative habitat for any wildlife displaced during construction. Bird houses and bat boxes can also be integrated within the structure to provide wildlife habitats.
- Deter graffiti: In areas where graffiti is a potential problem, green walls can act as an effective deterrent; making the application of graffiti to the building structure almost impossible.
Commercial Green Wall Systems
Our Commercial Green Walls have been used in projects large and small across the UK. We have supplied simple panels to decorate what would otherwise be bare expanses of brickwork, up to more complex structures with full irrigation and planting schemes on multiple building facades.
Used in retail, leisure, health, education and office developments; in local and central government programmes and for both new build and refurbishment projects, this modern, precision engineered green wall system provides great design flexibility. Working closely with customers, we develop solutions that meet virtually any location and performance requirements, or budget constraints.
Equally suitable for internal or external use, our systems fix into timber, concrete, steel or brick structures. Tailored to suit the characteristics of different plants.
Residential Green Wall Systems
Our modern, stainless steel residential green wall kits bring a new dimension to garden design. Giving homeowners and landscape designers the opportunity to create living walls; adding life to tired buildings, garden features and boundary walls.
- Offering great value for money, our residential green wall systems are drawn from a range of precision-engineered components. This provides real design flexibility and means that a system can be tailored to meet almost any dimensional requirements.
- From entire walls to fans, narrow panels to L-shapes, a Green Wall can be simply created and installed, providing a new visual aspect to any garden project, large or small, and tying in easily with existing features such as columns, pergolas or summer houses.
- Amongst the many benefits, our residential green walls are virtually maintenance free and, fast and easy to install, they can be fixed to most standard structures, including timber, brick, concrete and steel. Different plant varieties can be accommodated; so too can different locations and fixings – and budgets.
Green-walls.co.uk is part of the MMA Architectural Systems family, together with solutions for Car Park Safety, Animal Enclosures and Bridge Safety. We are also exclusive UK suppliers of Jakob Rope Systems and Geggus Entrance Matting Systems.
How can Green Walls benefit Biodiversity Net Gain?
How can Green Walls benefit Biodiversity Net Gain?
09 July 2024
The development of residential and commercial areas can pose significant threats to an area’s established biodiversity, including the loss of natural habitats and increases in both air and noise pollution.
To help address these negative impacts, ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’ is now a mandatory requirement in the UK, its objective being to encourage the construction industry to leave urban areas in better shape than before development and so to preserve, protect and enhance natural habitats for flora and fauna.
In short, the initiative has been introduced to ensure that developments retain and respect the local environment, ensuring natural habitats are available for wildlife to thrive.
One way that this can be achieved is through the introduction of Green Walls.
When adding Green Walls to urban areas, we usually imagine they will be perfectly pruned and manicured – perhaps to reflect the precision and elegant lines of the buildings they adorn. However, the Green Wall installed at 351 Caledonian Road proves that this does not have to be the case.
Facing a railway, the Green Wall has been installed to help trap dust and other pollutants from the local area, with the leaves and tendrils effectively absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. As a result, the plants are actively helping to improve the quality of the local air and so reduce pollution.
Allowing the plants to grow and thrive is a great way to create a plentiful and varied natural habitat for wildlife. With the right plant selection, greening can attract bugs and bees and can also be used in conjunction with bird and bat boxes. This ensures that Biodiversity Net Gain is acknowledged, and that the local environment is left in a suitable state.
Plants can also absorb certain amounts of sound, which makes them great for acoustic insulation, with the reduction in noise pollution enhancing the local environment as well as benefitting the building’s occupants.
Proven in projects worldwide, our durable Green Wall systems provide a modern, sustainable solution, bringing nature back to urban environments.
To learn more about our Jakob Green Wall Systems, or discuss your specific project requirements, please contact us on 01761 419427 or email sales@mma-architecturalco.uk to talk to our technical team.
MMA Green Walls Greening Data Centres
As the global demand for Data Centres continues to rapidly grow, so too do concerns regarding their environmental impact.
With extremely high energy and water consumption and significant greenhouse gas emissions, a good deal of work is being done to help improve their environmental footprint. Clearly no single action is going to remedy all these issues, but a combination of co-ordinated measures can be used to deliver tangible benefits.
A great example is the installation of a green wall system. Proven to provide a multitude of benefits, green walls (also known as living walls) can be part of a sustainable solution that addresses the ever-growing requirements for Data Centres.
Data Centres require a huge amount of cooling to maintain optimal functionality, which means they are extremely energy intensive. The introduction of greening to their façades creates natural insulation, enabling the cooling systems to be less energy intensive.
Significant noise can also be generated by server operations and cooling systems. Fully planted Green Walls help absorb and so dampen sound, which mitigates noise pollution. As a result, a more pleasant environment can be created.
Green walls can also improve the aesthetic of these otherwise very functional looking buildings. And when properly designed and maintained, they significantly enhance a structure’s appearance by adding interesting colour and texture to the façade. They also provide a perfect natural habitat for flora and fauna, creating a positive impact on biodiversity in the local environment – and a convenient stopping-off point for bugs as they navigate their way through towns and cities.
We supply and install residential and commercial green wall systems across the UK. Our systems consist of stainless steel wire rope, rods and Webnet wire mesh, creating trellises that can be fitted to building façades, providing structures for plants to be grown up or cascaded down.
To learn more about our Jakob Green Wall Systems, or discuss your specific project requirements, please contact our friendly technical team on 01761 419427 or email sales@mma-architecturalco.uk
