Boris Mints Institute to inaugurate Matanel Garden, part of TAU's 'Green Naftali Project'

• Published date: 06 October 2021
• Author: ALAN ROSENBAUM
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

On October 17, at 15:00 Israel time, 8:00 EST, and 12:00 UK time, the Boris Mints Institute at Tel-Aviv University will inaugurate the first component of the project, the Matanel Garden, which is a vertical wall and a horizontal garden on the ground. The garden, which was built due to the generous donation of the Matanel Foundation, includes the Green Wall, a 250 square-meter vertical garden that reduces the building's energy consumption and a horizontal garden, which will serve as a learning and research center. Biological pest control technologies, water recycling and renewable energy will be applied to the garden.

The Matanel Garden will include several research elements, including a monitoring system that will track energy and water inputs and outputs, thus assessing the efficiency of the various technologies used in the project, the building's energy consumption and carbon footprint.

At the Garden's opening, Tel Aviv University President, Prof. Ariel Porat and Prof. Itai Sened, Dean of the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences and Head of BMI, will extend greetings and a representative of the Matanel Foundation will address the gathering after the unveiling of the Garden's plaque. Prof. Hadas Mamane, Head of the Environmental Engineering...