Elmich’s exclusive VGM® distributor in the USA, Tournesol Siteworks, receives regular requests from designers wanting to install double-sided VGM living walls. The Sheraton Delfina pool-deck living wall, designed by major hospitality design firm Dawson Design Associates, is an excellent example of such a double-sided wall. Read more
Today’s global and volatile economy challenges organizations with exponentially increasing level of complexity and uncertainty. Continuous crisis and corporate collapses have highlighted the vulnerability of organizations to risk issues: greed, fraud, competition, increasing pace of technological and business changes, escalating compliance requirements, terrorism, reliance on IT, complexity of the supply chain, corporate social responsibility, fragility of reputation and many others. Read more
Oceano Warner Center is a new apartment community located in the Warner Center area of Woodland Hills, CA. Technically part of Los Angeles, Warner Center is an edge city, designed as an urban area to relieve traffic congestion in the San Fernando Valley. Oceano was built with an urban aesthetic, and designed to meet all LEED requirements. The property is gorgeous, as you can see from these pictures. Read more
Archifest, organized by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), and held from 6 to 31 October 2012 is an annual month-long architecture festival, in celebration of the urban environment at “The Foothills”, Fort Canning Park. Themed “Rethink Singapore”, the festival is aimed at engaging different communities to step up, collaborate, participate and rethink how they can mould the city to make it more sustainable and liveable. Read more
Elmich Australia has emerged as winner in the Landscaping and Outdoor Category and ranked 47 overall in a survey recently conducted by Infolink Top Trusted Brands 2012 in which 629 companies were nominated and over 6000 votes weres cast. Read more
Elmich’s stand at the SGBC Pavilion themed, “Green Community, Green Action”, at BEX Asia 2012, Southeast Asia’s business platform to the Build Green environment, held from 10-12 October 2012 at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre is presenting industry players and those from the building, construction community, and visitors with enhanced insights into the world of Green Roof and Green Wall systems. Read more
Beneath the pavers, invisible to all but the knowledgable, VersiJack® height and slope adjustable pedestals perform a crucial supporting role to make the water-play fountain possible at Clarke Quay, a unique hub of Singaporean nightclubs, situated upstream from the mouth of the Singapore River. Read more
An Elmich VGM Green Wall installed in August 2012 is delighting shoppers and visitors to the Fashion Valley Mall. It is amongst several other outstanding VGM modular living walls recently installed through Tournesol Siteworks, our distributor in the U.S. VGM Green Walls are now featured at Amazon HQ (in Seattle), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (in Texas). Read more
More than 6000 sq m of VersiCell® were installed to provide drainage beneath artificial turf of the sports field built on the RC rooftop of the car park at the newly completed Stamford American International School in Singapore. The high internal void volume of lightweight VersiCell® modules allows water permeating through the artificial turf, sand and rubber layers to be transported expeditiously to drainage outlets at the perimeter of the field. This efficient discharge of water enables the field to dry out quickly even after heavy rains. Read more
