Phytotechnologies are very interesting for public authorities wanting to recover polluted areas, industrialists wanting to contain contaminants and landscaping professionals looking to enrich the services they provide. We already dedicated a conference to phytoremediation and landscape planning at Paysalia 2017 and continue on this topic with Valerie Bert, studies and research engineer at the INERIS Clean and Sustainable Technologies and Processes Service. Continue reading…
If 3D design software is common in landscape architecture, the use of virtual reality is still in its infancy. However, far from being confined to video game, it has been adopted in a host of sectors. Taking as a starting point initiatives that already exist, Paysalia imagines what virtual reality could bring to landscapers in the years to come… Continue reading…
How can you sustainably manage a resource as precious as water when watering? We put the question to Pierre-Alain Madelaine, President of the French National Automatic Watering Association (SYNAA) for the last 11 years. He explains his vision of watering and gives his advice below! Continue reading…
Did you know that urban lighting accounts for 16% of total public authority energy consumption and 41% of their electricity bills (1)? A problem for both their budgets and the environment to which bioluminescence, a remarkable biological phenomenon often studied but little copied, could be the solution. Continue reading…
We are well into summer so perhaps you have already finished all your holiday readings. Don’t worry. Paysalia has prepared a small selection of TEDx conferences on the interaction between landscaping and towns for tomorrow’s world. Great stuff to watch lazing in the sun! Continue reading…
