http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/prem...arden-20131018
Published October 18, 2013
Singapore CBD is home to world's biggest vertical garden
THE world's largest vertical garden can now be found in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District (CBD). Standing 19 metres high and 110 metres wide - as big as eight tennis courts - this green wall of plants belonging to Ocean Financial Centre is a curtain made up of 51,000 potted plants of 25 species. The pots have been arranged to make up a map of Singapore, South-east Asia and the world.
The wall serves a purpose beyond the aesthetic. It is designed to reduce the surface temperature of OFC's carpark, which sits behind the wall of green. It is also a green lung which filters out vehicular emissions and provides visual relief from the dense concrete landscape of the CBD.
Proprietary landscaping designs have been adopted to secure the pots of plants in place; an automatic irrigation and fertilisation system ensures minimal maintenance.
Keppel Land, OFC's developer, put up the green wall in a show of support for the National Parks' vision of creating a "City in a Garden" out of Singapore.
The vertical garden is just one of OFC's many environmentally-friendly features. Others that use state-of-the-art technology include a 400 square metre solar panel system installed on its roof and a hybrid chiller system; its paper-recycling system saves more than 5,600 trees a year.
Keppel said that with these features, OFC is able to achieve overall energy savings of 35 per cent.
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