COLOURFUL

WALLS

GREEN FAÇADES OF TECHNICAL

DEVELOPMENT BUILDINGS ON

PTÁCKÁ STREET DON BEAUTIFUL

AUTUMN COLOURS

Dobruška 16

Opočno 20

Kolowrat Forests

22,000

Kvasiny 28

Solnice 1,374

T

he Emission and Engine Centres compound is located a stone’s throw from

Mladá Boleslav Castle, which is why the

company strove to plant as much green

here as possible. Today, passers­‑by can’t

miss the walls covered in greenery. It has

been four years since the green façade of

the Engine Centre was created, and many

of the plants have reached the expected

height. The Emission Centre building is

newer, which is why the climbing plants

there are not yet fully grown. The greenery climbs the façade from the ground up,

while other plants are growing from the

roof down and meeting the fully grown

ones in the middle. There are about five

types of climbing plants on the buildings –

both evergreen and deciduous. The roofs

are decorated with various kinds of grass,

alpine plants and xerophilous plants, all of

which thrive in harsh conditions.

For both buildings, the carmaker decided to use plants that grow fast and do

not require constant care and watering.

The company tends to the greenery three

times a year by cutting out overgrown

leaves, starting irrigation in the spring

and winterising the whole system in the

autumn. Drip irrigation is controlled automatically through a sensor that is activated during dry spells.

Green roofs and façades have a positive impact on people’s mood and the environment. Moreover, in summer they retain rainwater, which cools the buildings.

EVA JAROŠOVÁ

Gardening tip

The fastest climbing plant in the

world is the Virginia creeper, or

Parthenocissus quinquefolia. It is

a flowering plant that belongs to

the grape family. In ideal conditions,

it can climb 30 metres, and thanks

to adhesive pads on the side of its

leaves, it easily creeps up smooth

façades. It blossoms between July

and September.

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ŠKODA MOBIL NOVEMBER 2018

Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Lupenice 54

Záměl 25

FORESTED REGION

ŠKODA AUTO PLANTS NEARLY 24,000 TREES IN RYCHNOVSKO

T

he Kvasiny plant is located next to al- we have carried out in the Rychnov region.

most 24,000 young trees. The plants This spring, for instance, volunteers in Kvasiny

will grow into new forests and park- joined the ‘Clean the world, clean the Czech

ways, renew the damaged parts of the forest Republic’ project, as more than 200 particiand increase biodiversity.

pants collected over 7 tonnes of waste around

A s p a r t o f t h e Š KO DA

the plants in Mladá Boleslav

Trees project, the carmakand Kvasiny“, comments Jiří

Černý, the executive manager

er has planted new plants not

only in Kvasiny but also in the

of the Kvasiny plant.

YEARS OF

surrounding villages, includŠKODA Trees focuses mainTHE PROJECT

ing Solnice, Lupenice, Záměl,

ly on critical locations in the

Dobruška and Opočno. This

Krkonoše National Park, where

year, a wide scale of tree vari154,000 plants have helped to

TREES IN MORE THAN

renew the forests. In 2007, the

eties was planted, from elms

100 LOCATIONS

brand initiated the project as

and hornbeams to lime trees

a pledge to plant one tree for

and cherries. Most greenery in

the form of container plants was used to re- every car sold in the Czech Republic. Every

vive forests in the Orlické Mountains, which year, its funding scheme grants applicants

had been damaged by strong winds and are the financial resources to buy the correspondmaintained by Kolowratské lesy. With great ing number of plants. In this way, employees

help from volunteers, including employees, in- in all plants become actively involved not only

terns and students of the ŠKODA Vocational in planting but also in searching for suitable

School, the woods were expanded by adding locations. ŠKODA AUTO has opted for this

cooperation as a symbol of its Green Future

almost 22,000 new plants.

„The ŠKODA Trees project completes the strategy, which has forest and landscape culseries of ecologically focused CSR activities tivation as one of its pillars. RED

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820,000

Forests, parks, lanes

Solnice

Boosting forest biodiversity by planting elms

Planting cranes and hornbeams at

a children’s playground in Ještětice

Planting a lime­‑tree lane

Lupenice

Creating parkways

Kvasiny

Renewing greenery in the village

(maple, ash tree, crane, lime tree, bird cherry)

Záměl

Cherry­‑tree parkway planted along the cycling road

Dobruška

Recovery of the horn­‑tree parkway at the local

stadium

Opočno

Cherry­‑tree and lime­‑tree parkway behind the

kindergarten

Kolowrat Forests

Renewing forests after natural disaster