A case for plants

Mr. Ron Wood, a research associate with the Environmental Quality Group at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, provides a comprehensive list of reasons why interior plants are key to cost effectively improving indoor environmental quality while contributing to sustainable, green building designs:

• Plants are cheaper to use than powerful air filter systems
• Plants can easily be moved or relocated
• Plants are environmentally friendly
• Plants offer aesthetic stimulants to the people in a room
• Plants do not cause acoustic problems
• Plants do not interfere with ventilation systems that are already installed
• With professional care, plants provide high results at relatively low maintenance costs
• Plants support good motivation by creating a balanced working environment
• Plants can be used as attractive room dividers in open plan offices
• Plants reduce tiring of the eyes by reflecting the yellow/green spectrum
• Introducing plants requires no change to the structure of a building
• Plants can discretely solve an environmental problem
• Plants possibility of a sudden breakdown is relatively low