Plants are a Critical Addition to any Green Building Design.
Why It Matters:
It is in our human nature to connect with the outdoors. Research indicates that interior landscaping is not only desirable but a “must do green initiative” to keep employees, clients, and tenants happy and healthy. A professionally interior landscaped green business space can positively affect your bottom line while lifting one’s spirits. If not convinced of the power of going green, please examine this sample of the data on the subject
Plants:
1. Reduce absenteeism
2. Make buildings look more welcoming
3. Improve the indoor environment
4. Make a design statement
5. Increase occupancy and retention
6. Affect productivity and satisfaction
7. Increase retail spending
8. Soften less attractive building features
9. Reflect the holidays and changing seasons
Reduce Absenteeism: having a few selected quality specimens can help moderate the noise level and reduce stress, keeping employees happier and at work.
Make Buildings Look More Welcoming: Subtle settings created by plants alleviate the harshness of the buildings environment. They’ll do all the work and create a warm inviting refuge.
Improve the Indoor Environment: plants take on many indoor environment health problems by reducing levels of carbon dioxide, increasing relative humidity, reducing airborne dust levels and gassing levels of certain common interior pollutants.
Make a Design Statement: Interior landscaping is emerging as a fashion-oriented business. It can be the finishing touches to the overall design or stand as focal points to catch the eye.
Increase Tenant Occupancy and Retention: By maintaining healthy plants in attractively designed containers and displays, the character and appearance of the building improves. People want to stay, their perception is positive.
Affect Productivity and Worker Satisfaction: When a company provides and maintains plants for their employees, a message of goodwill is sent. Workers feel management cares by spending money on something whose only function is to look good. In one study, workers have demonstrated 12% more productivity with plants present!
Increase Retail Spending: Extend your outside environment inside for the retail customer. Provide a more interesting, cheerful, less stressful experience for your shopper, diner or overnight guest!
Soften Less Attractive Building Features: Utilizing the versatility in size and shape, plants affect the less attractive features of the structural environment with elegant, functional solutions to service areas, kitchen entries, connecting walkways etc.
Reflect the Holidays and Changing Seasons: Don’t forget about the holiday season, it is hard to beat the visual beauty and grace of plants. They express our cultural beliefs and help celebrate our seasonal holiday.
