Green or Living Walls are becoming a familiar feature of the built environment. Many Living Walls are of a scale and location that presents no additional risk to the scenario, but others, applied at larger scale to a building, might have the potential to exert great influence on the safety and insurability of a building if not properly designed and maintained.

This guide provides a comprehensive review of the core principles of risk control for Living Walls and an in-depth questionnaire that allows the opportunity for the specifier, façade designer, or architect to describe the proposed Living Wall system to any authority having jurisdiction.

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