Green walls

Green walls

It is not only the money that improves employee performance. It has been proved that the atmosphere at your workplace is also substantially influenced by plants. Nowadays, biophilia, which means incorporating nature and organic materials into your space, is a strong trend in workplace design. A company which is effective in covering office spaces with greenery is 4Nature System – Wertykalni.

The company from Warsaw has taken advantage of EU funds in order to develop a modular system for building vertical gardens. This is done based on an original technology consisting in automatic irrigation and lighting of plants. A vertical garden is made of recycled plastic and integrated with an automatic watering and smart control system. As a result, looking after plants is no longer burdensome. Plants in office areas have a positive influence on employee comfort, and smart control of greenery allows for optimising the costs of maintaining it. The modular vertical greenery system was appreciated by the jury of the competition Dobry Wzór (Good Design) 2018, which awarded Wertykalni a prize in the Services category.

‘We introduce living greenery into offices with the support of the latest technology. The irrigation and lighting levels are managed using a mobile application. One of our flagship solutions 4Nature Smart is provided with an application designed in compliance with the IoT (Internet of Things) concept, which significantly shortens and facilitates the plant care process’ said Beata Dziedzic, the company’s co-founder. The automatic irrigation and lighting system makes looking after plants so easy.

Accompanied by plants
Research conducted by PLGBC and the Silesian University of Technology commissioned by 4Nature System – Wertykalni:
- an average drop of 30% in the level of employees’ tension, irritation and tiredness was recorded when there were plants at their workplace
- 86% of employees positively evaluated the effect of plants on work comfort when plants were present near desks
- 84% of employees were of the opinion that plants had a positive influence on their mood
- 62% of employees had a positive opinion regarding the influence of plants on work efficiency
- 52% of employees noticed an improvement in their health
- 92% of employees are willing to have plants at their workplace

Plants in office areas improve the comfort and quality of work, soothe our senses and reduce stress. Relaxed employees are calmer, more creative and more involved in their work. Plants purify the air and increase humidity. And these are the pressing needs of city dwellers. Research conducted in 2019 showed that office workers’ satisfaction with air quality in the presence of plants increased from 46% to 80%, and fell dramatically to 26% when the plants were taken away. There can be only one conclusion: we must live and work surrounded by greenery.

Project: Innovative mobile modules with an integrated vertical garden system
Project cost: approx. PLN 375 thousand, including PLN 244 thousand from the European Regional Development Fund, Smart Growth Programme