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SUMMER MAINTENANCE


LANDSCAPING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX


Facilities Managers are key to driving the change that can see existing green assets flourish, GRITIT Grounds Maintenance explains why.


The past decade has seen a paradigm shift in the public policy and planning arenas that has placed a spotlight on the vital importance of ‘Green Infrastructure’ to both society and the environment. Natural and built landscapes are coming to be understood as playing an active role in addressing social, environmental and economic challenges – often simultaneously.


The Landscape Institute, one of the principal advocates and drivers for


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the Green Infrastructure (GI) concept, describes landscape assets as being multifunctional: On the one hand they can work to reduce the pressures of urban development by alleviating flood risks, mitigate urban heat islands and can contribute to carbon capture for cleaner air. However, there are also more immediate benefits to be gained and developers, businesses and local authorities are now seeing green spaces in terms of biophilic design, building landscapes


that – according to psychological research – offer a cost-effective way to actively drive better productivity, physical and mental health. This year’s Ecobuild conference was a case in point, with a whole track of the three-day agenda dedicated to Green Infrastructure. In other words, there is a broad range of reasons (going far beyond the aesthetic) as to why green spaces can and should be understood as an asset that can deliver much more value.


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