One of the results of urbanization is the increase in impervious surfaces and decrease in vegetation, resulting in an increase in runoff into our water ways. This has resulted in a push for green architecture with an emphasis on planter boxes and plants to absorb water and help to purify the air. However it is […]
The Gold Coast Titans for the first time have a community club. Parkwood Village has undergone a rapid transformation to its food, beverage, events, entertainment and golf operations to enable it to provide the Fans and members of the Gold Coast Titans a home base of which they can be proud. The new Village Lane […]
In May 2014 plans were drawn up for the construction of the $230 million Healthscope-operated Gold Coast Private Hospital, at Parklands Drive, Southport. Included in the plans was a multistoried car park. It was decided to screen the car park with green walls.
The question now was – what is the cost efficient way of construction? […]
To provide a drain under pavers, one simply lays a full layer of Atlantis® 52mm drainage cell clipped together on a slab and then simply sits the pavers on top thereof butted together. However if you wish to have a drain under wooden or the like floor boards, how do you do this both effectively […]
Four hundred and eighty Atlantis® Flo-tank® single modules were used to create a 57,000 litre detention tank under a driveway of a commercial development at 10 Hawker Street Currumbin Waters Qld. The tank received discharge from a bio-retention basin.
The modules were wrapped in a waterproof liner which was wrapped in a geotextile with 5 by […]
Chan Chan, the largest City of the pre-Columbian era in South America is now an archaeological site in La Libertad Region, 5 kilometres west of Trujillo Peru. Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the Moche Valley and was the capital of the historical empire of the Chimor from 900 to1470, when they were […]
The City of Playford in South Australia, an area of high unemployment, decided, in keeping with its motto “a great place to live, work and play”, to construct a park, at the Northern CBD Development, to hold social events and concerts and at the same time boost employment.
The challenge was to construct an OSD tank […]
The newly built Barangaroo site requires an efficient stormwater runoff relief system that also provides water quality treatment according to the WSUD approach and best practices.
Lendlease contacted Atlantis for an efficient infiltration system capable to capture 2 km of stormwater runoff from landscape area. The development is in close proximity to the Sydney Harbour Bridge […]
Create a pocket of greenery in the city with up to $10,000 in matched grant funding.
Help make the city a cooler and more attractive place with a grant from Council’s new $200,000 Green City Grant
Program.
Greening projects must be visible from a street or other public place and can include living walls, green facades,
vertical gardens, planter […]
Kitchen Window Gets Green Wall View
Atlantis Gro-Wall® 4.5 installed on fence line for kitchen window.
This kitchen in a newly constructed home in Sydneys northern suburbs has converted an ugly view of steel Colorbond fencing into a stunning green wall vertical garden. The new green wall aspect and aesthetics has greatly improved the kitchen outlook. The […]
