Biotecture Case Study—Birmingham New Street Train Station 1 Project Details The living wall overlooking the New Street Train Station tracks was originally installed by another living wall supplier in 2012 but despite several full replants, by 2017 a good proportion of the plants had died. Network rail commissioned Biotecture to remove the old, soil based, living wall system and reconstruct an all new hydroponic living wall to replace it. There have been on-going concerns about air quality in the station and surrounding area because even through the whole station was converted to electric in the 1960’s a high number of services still run on diesel trains, meaning that pollution, in particular levels of NOx are very high. In addition, Birmingham was named by the world health o

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