Foam becomes soil
Published: 2015-01-22 09:33
Recently, the Jiangsu International Green Building Exhibition, sponsored by the Science, Technology and Industrialization Development Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Nanjing Municipal Government, opened at the International Expo Center. The reporters learned from the show, our country will building industrialization and building operation energy saving as two directions of building energy saving, a batch of enterprises are to study hard.
In Nanjing, there are such a group of people, busy in the reinforced concrete "forest" to build a three-dimensional garden. Jiangsu Yiprui Environmental Technology Co., LTD., the so-called "three-dimensional garden", is not to occupy the land, on the roof to build a garden, in the wall planting. In this way, not only can absorb urban haze, but also the walls and roofs covered by vegetation become warm in winter and cool in summer, and the electricity consumption of air conditioning can be saved by a quarter. According to statistics, the current air conditioning and heating accounts for more than 50% of the total energy consumption of buildings.
The reporter saw in the sample area, the soil of the roof garden is very special, the main component is actually foam plastic. White styrofoam is hard to biodegrade, so the company used a US patent to turn waste into treasure, creating a nutritious soil called Gaia.
"Compared to traditional soil, the advantages of this special soil is that it is light, it weighs one-third to one-fifth as much as normal soil, it doesn't cause load problems for the house, and it holds water well, between 100 and 200 percent. We also provide a full range of construction and maintenance solutions based on the location of the building and the selection of vegetation suitable for the latitude. Currently, we are building a 60,000 square meter roof garden in Xuzhuang. It's a big industry, and it's already popular abroad. The Museum of Modern Art in Queens, New York, has grown 70 kinds of vegetables and flowers in Gaia soil. The head of the company said.