The Benefits of Indoor Landscaping

If you have contemplated adding indoor landscaping in your offices, factories, school, hospital or malls as solely as a decoration, you might be surprised to know how much the landscaping can promote a healthier life and even save up your money. Indoor landscaping can also provide a pleasant and peaceful environment in work productivity or to relax. The psychological impact of landscaping in the office environment is beneficial. In a “plantscaped” office, people recover from stress quicker (Helen, 2000). Productivity increased 12% when people completed tasks on a computer with plants, compared to people who performed the same task in a room without plants (Lohr, 2000).

By adding indoor landscaping to your building is something that everyone should want to do for these benefits:

• decrease noise levels indoors
• reduce stress
• increase productivity
• improve air quality
• cost savings

Effective Noise Barrier

We can’t avoid experiencing noise pollution in our daily lives. Places like the malls, offices, museums, hospitals, restaurants, etc can be annoyed with unpleasant sounds made by the people, escalators, lifts, moving objects, etc. Most people find it disturbing especially people who are sensitive to noise. It also can harm one’s health, affect the employees’ productivity and distracts people to focus on work. Landscaping has long been used to decrease noise from busy roads and recent research has shown that indoor landscaping can help to reduce background noise levels inside buildings, too.

Although some shopping trends beliefs that loud noises and energetic environment target for young people may improve shoppers experience but the fact is, all shoppers desire to have a peaceful and calm environment when spending their money. In order to reduce noise and distraction factors, the landscaping experts are replacing stale cubicles for “tree walls” and other types of landscaping in the premises as stated by Associated Landscape Contractors of America (Surendra & Rahul, 2016). Plant such as vines on walls and lawns or ground cover planting helps to deflect noises.

Plants and their leaves absorb and reflect background noise, thereby producing a more comfortable environment for the occupants. Indoor landscaping has many recognized advantages to their environments and the people in them. Noise reduction is one of those less-known benefits of landscaping. There are several ways landscaping can reduce noise and we at Atalian are always ready to bring peace and tranquillity to your business with the best solution.

Address “Sick Building Syndrome”

Research has shown that it is possible to have an energy-efficient building without “Sick Building Syndrome”. It is widely known through the respected research done by Dr Roger S. Ulrich of Texas A&M University, Helen  Russell,  Surrey University, England as well as the recent studies conducted by Dr Virginia Lohr of Washington  State  University that indoor landscaping significantly lower workplace stress and enhance productivity. It offers a means to decrease stress while enhancing productivity by 12%. The indoor plant scent can help employees become more productive and more alert.

According to the University of Vermont Extension, indoor landscaping can prevent illness and diseases by 23% in the business, malls, hospitals, and schools (Sanders, n.d.). The company can save costs from the employees’ medical expense, the expense of replacing new teachers or the costs of lost work. Some indoor landscaping is able to remove toxins in the air and prevent the bacteria and mould growths. The plants can improve indoor air quality as it removes benzene and air pollutant. It also prevents people from developing allergies and relies on allergy medication.

This indoor landscaping is an affordable solution in any building and planting bigger landscaping consists of more leaves helps to purify the air. A substantial body of academic research has shown conclusively that indoor landscaping has dramatic effects on the wellbeing of building occupants. People in the offices are more productive, take fewer sick leaves, make fewer mistakes, and they are happier because indoor landscaping improves their environment. Professional landscape designers understand people psychology better and they know what’s pleasing to the eye. In fact, it’s these same principles that advertisers and web designers and many other professionals use to entice your sense of sight.

In the end, the function of any good landscape is to reinforce the good feelings you want to project about your workplace or building. Atalian Global Services Vietnam provides you with experienced and knowledgeable grounds maintenance teams who can create and maintain landscape solutions that are tailored to suit your needs.

Improve Air Quality

Most employees will likely spend 90% of their workday indoors. The air inside the buildings can be heavily polluted with mould, chemicals, and carbon dioxide. Indoor landscaping can help tackle poor air quality, excessive background noise and inadequate control of light and humidity by reducing carbon dioxide levels, increasing humidity, reducing levels of certain pollutants such as benzene and nitrogen dioxide, reducing airborne dust levels and keeping air temperatures down. The plants release moisture into the air through the process of transpiration which is when moisture evaporates from the leaves. In addition, indoor landscaping creates humidity in air natural by releasing water and oxygen vapour.

Good indoor landscaping not just purifies indoor air, adjust the indoor temperature and humidity, beneficial to human body health. The plants absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis to evaporation, release oxygen while some plants can absorb the harmful gas, secretion, and sexual material, kill the bacteria in the air.

Cost Savings

Indoor landscaping can also reduce the electric energy cost without running the humidifier. This moisture promotes the cooling effect in the building. Factories, malls, and offices can be crowded with people in such spaces that use high air conditioning usage. It is common that the business faces high electricity bills. Therefore, the indoor landscaping can help to reduce the reliance on air conditioning, which will lower the electricity bill. Placing the indoor plant at abundant natural lights can reduce lighting electric bills and maintain them. The indoor landscaping garden is able to lower down the temperature and keep premises cool naturally in warm weather. According to the University of Vermont, Extension stated that the plants release moisture into the air through the warm building, as it is able to lower the temperature by 10 °C (Sanders, n.d.). They can help to reduce heating costs by adding humidity to the room.

It’s not just about obtaining luxury landscape design services to make your office, commercial building, hotel or mall stand out but trimming your electric and energy bills in the process. Atalian Global Services Indonesia provides professional landscaping and ground maintenance services that are tailored to your specific needs and dedicated to beautifying your landscapes for your business. On this season, we can put a fresh new face on your indoor landscaping gardens that will look inspirational. Do contact us today for a free consultation and more information about our services.