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Blooming Blog: this is how biodiverse urban green delivers economic value

Urban greening pays off: it prevents climate damage, saves energy, increases social activity, and raises real estate value.

When presenting our green plans to a client, the first question usually is: how much does it cost?

Understandably, because doing it right (and we like to do it right) requires a significant budget for landscaping. However, it’s better to ask a different question: what does it yield?

We mean money. Because while it’s known that more greenery leads to better biodiversity and a nicer landscape, our new blog provides seven reasons why you should see landscaping not as an expense but as an investment.

After all, it prevents climate damage, saves energy, increases social activity, enhances job satisfaction, reduces vacancies, and raises real estate value. Neglecting greening is detrimental to your real estate portfolio. Find out h

Blooming Blog: Green Building, BREEAM and the advantages of a truly Green Building

More and more organizations are committing to greening their spaces. Certification methods like BREEAM-NL and WELL are useful tools, but they don’t always result in truly green buildings.

BREEAM and WELL aim to make buildings more sustainable, social, and healthy. However, achieving the required checkmarks often becomes a goal in itself, sidelining genuine greening efforts.

That’s a missed opportunity: real greenery not only helps meet BREEAM and WELL criteria but also provides many additional benefits, including financial ones. Discover more in our full article.

Blooming people:Meet Keely, our Chief Plant Officer

The roots of Keely, our Chief Plant Officer, are in Australia. At Blooming Buildings, she is responsible for managing all projects and designing interior plantings. Do you have a plant question? Keely undoubtedly has great advice!

Blooming Blog: The Commercial Benefits of Climate-Adaptive Planting

To minimize or even prevent climate risks, it is crucial to make vulnerable areas less vulnerable and take climate-adaptive measures. The simplest way is through quality planting. With planting as a nature-based solution, you ensure that heavy rainfall is effectively absorbed and that temperatures are tempered on hot days. But it doesn’t stop there; planting brings many more benefits. Here are some good examples of how that works.

Climate Adaptive Solution against Water Overflow is Greenery

By literally greening our cities, we can capture the water, thereby reducing water overflow. Every construction and real estate party would do well to give greenery a permanent place in their future plans. How exactly? Read the article and view the examples.

News: Visit us at the Provada 2024!

Provada 2024, ‘The real estate meeting point’ has begun! And we are also participating. Among plants, of course. Are you coming too? Drop by and visit us! You can find us in hall 12, stand 65.

Are you coming on Thursday? Make sure you don’t miss the knowledge session on planting as a profitable addition to your ESG strategy by our own director Tanja van der Knoop and Erwin Wessels from Altera Real Estate. Thursday at 1:00 PM in the room at the Kennisplein. See you there!

RadboudUMC geveltuin en zelfhechtende klimpanten

Green plants for healing environment Radboudumc

Radboudumc hospital faced the challenge of making the entrance more attractive and part of a healing environment for patients, visitors, and staff. A green living and working space contributes to healing, as evidenced by various studies. The planting design, featuring more than 150 plant species, provides an inspiring experience for both animals and humans 365 days a year. This direct contact with nature cheers people up and radiates tranquility.

Natuurlijke beplanting in een kantoor, zicht op persoon achter laptop door groene bladeren

Blooming Blog: good green for better employee well-being and health

Many employers struggle with the question: how do I get my people to the office? Our solution: more greenery in the form of high-quality, biodiverse planting that offers something to experience 365 days a year, both indoors and outdoors. How does it work? By providing good planting indoors, you not only create a work environment where people want to come, but also one in which they are more productive. With good planting, you improve the air quality and acoustics of a space. Additionally, plants have a calming effect on people, reducing stress. For example, looking at Lab Digital, for which we designed the interior planting, you can see how distinctive greenery helps them not only retain staff but also attract new employees. An employee survey even revealed that the planting was the main reason to come (back) to the office.

Office Jungle impacts employee health, well-being and satisfaction

A green welcoming entrance sets the tone for the entire office and provides a distinctive proposition. A diverse, lush green entrance rewards with a calming and productive environment – an impression that lingers with every visitor. Be inspired by the Jungle office we created for Lab Digital!

Blooming Blog: Biodiversity in the city

The greater the biodiversity, the healthier the ecosystem. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Many people think that where there are cities, there can be no nature. But on a building, around that building, against that building, and in that building, nature can indeed flourish. You just have to do it right. Read about it here.