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| Progress of Victoria's Desalination Plant |
AquaSure and its contractors have brought together terrific architectures and environmentalists within a landscape and world-class technology to create one of the most significant and large scale environmental designs in Australia. It is based on the concept of a ‘green line’, featuring a modern living roof that has been fully designed to integrate the built form of the landscape and makes the plant barely visible from all public viewing points. The roof will be completely covered with living indigenous vegetation to camouflage the plant, provide acoustic protection, corrosion resistance and thermal control, to reduce maintenance needs. A prototype roof has been growing successfully in Gippsland since February 2009, using many regional and indigenous plants. The excavated soil will be kept to construct dunes that will incorporate the plant with the landscape and minimize visual and noise impacts for the neighboring areas.
AquaSure and its contractors have brought together terrific architectures and environmentalists within a landscape and world-class technology to create one of the most significant and large scale environmental designs in Australia. It is based on the concept of a ‘green line’, featuring a modern living roof that has been fully designed to integrate the built form of the landscape and makes the plant barely visible from all public viewing points. The roof will be completely covered with living indigenous vegetation to camouflage the plant, provide acoustic protection, corrosion resistance and thermal control, to reduce maintenance needs. A prototype roof has been growing successfully in Gippsland since February 2009, using many regional and indigenous plants. The excavated soil will be kept to construct dunes that will incorporate the plant with the landscape and minimize visual and noise impacts for the neighboring areas.
