FRAIMwork: Green wall impacts on urban microclimate, CO2 sequestration and air quality

The Horizon Europe project FRAIMwork aims to improve green wall installations across Europe. Based at WSL Lausanne, this project focuses on quantifying the carbon sink strength, water-use efficiency, and air-quality impacts of green wall vegetation under contrasting environmental conditions. The objective is to understand how environmental and microclimatic factors, such as light, water availability, and temperature, affect plant functioning, and to provide stakeholders with benchmark data identifying the most resilient and high-performing plant species. Measurements and analyses are conducted at multiple sites across the EU and integrated with soil–plant–atmosphere modeling to estimate annual carbon and water budgets.

Vegetation impacts of green wall elements on the urban microclimate will be studied in collaboration with industry partners that already provide the green wall elements at several sites throughout Europe