G4i-W

GREEN4INDOOR

Impact of Interior Living Walls  on Indoor Environmental Quality

Period :   2023 - ongoing

Context

In the current contexte of global warming, increased energy prices, heat islands in cities, and a growing concern for indoor air quality and human well-being, green walls are being studied as a solution to the improvement of current and future indoor conditions.

Objectives

• Studying the impact of interior living walls on indoor air quality
• Studying the impact of interior living walls on the energy performance of a building 
• Studying the impact of interior living walls on summer overheating in times of climate change
• Studying the impact of interior living walls on SBS
• Studying the impact of interior living walls on heat transfer through the wall
• Studying the impact of using clean and grey water to irrigate interior living walls

Project coordination

Université de Liège - BEMS

Operating partners

• SAM (Indoor Air Quality monitoring & climate chamber testing)
• BEMS (Building energy monitoring & climate chamber experiment)
• EED (Monitoring of water from indoor living walls & reuse of grey water for water supply to the plant system)
• Segefa (Fundamental and Applied economic geography study service)