Business Ideas in Romania

Green facades

• Posted by Sara on June 14th, 2007 filed in Homes and housing

While Anca and I were in Bruxelles for the Green Week these past few days, we met some interesting companies that we will be featuring over the next couple of days. For example - Lico Art, a Hungarian company that was proposing a technology that allows ivy coverings to extend over the entire wall of a building, regardless of the height.

From their website:

“The innovative technology consists in modular tanks fixed to the facades of (big, mostly housing) building, filled with prepared soil, connected by an automatic or manually controled irrigation system (water & nutritives); this provides optimal conditions to grow creeper plants (e.g Hedera helix) permanently. The substance of the innovation is a new application of the already known horticultural irrigation system on buildings’facades. Due to the modular tank system fixed on the vertical walls, the plants covers uniformly the surfaces, independently from the ground’s distance, shield from eventual damages.”

In Romania there are many buildings covered in ivy. While I would prefer to see a way to integrate this into a modern facade, it still is a very interesting business that could be successful in countries where the sight of ivy-covered buildings is enjoyable. The people at Lico Art are looking for partneres in other countries, if you’re interested.