Green engineering

Role of IXORA

Our landscape engineers specialize in environmental restoration and sustainability projects.

Our landscape engineer utilizes the principles of science to design functional, attractive, and structurally sound landscapes.

Our Engineers work with clients and contractors to design and construct land features for public and private projects. We transfer our ideas onto paper using the technology.

Our designers must consider material selection, water drainage, erosion control, and environmentally friendly technologies during the engineering phase of the design.

Engineers often try to incorporate existing elements of the land, such as natural slopes or tall trees, into new design schemes.

We offer new irrigation technique to supply the entire field uniformly with water, so that each plant has the amount of water it needs, neither too much nor too little.

Surface irrigation

In surface irrigation systems, water moves over and across the land by simple gravity flow in order to wet it and to infiltrate into the soil, subdivided into furrow, borderstrip or basin irrigation.

Localized irrigation

Localized irrigation is a system where water is distributed under low pressure through a piped network, in a pre-determined pattern, and applied as a small discharge to each plant or adjacent to it, subdivided into drip irrigation, spray or micro-sprinkler irrigation and bubbler irrigation.

Drip irrigation or trickle irrigation

Enery-efficient landscaping

Energy-efficient landscaping is a type of landscaping designed for the purpose of conserving energy. There is a distinction between the embedded energy of materials and constructing the landscape, and the energy consumed by the maintenance and operations of a landscape.

Design techniques include:

Planting trees for the purpose of providing shade, which reduces cooling costs.

Planting or building windbreaks to slow winds near buildings, which reduces heat loss.

Wall sheltering, where shrubbery or vines are used to create a windbreak directly against a wall.

Earth sheltering and positioning buildings to take advantage of natural landforms as windbreaks.

Green roofs that cool buildings with extra thermal mass and evapotranspiration(the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land surface to atmosphere).

Reducing the heat island effect with pervious paving, high albedo paving, shade, and minimizing paved areas.

Site lighting with full cut off fixtures, light level sensors, and high efficiency fixtures.

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In this system water falls drop by drop just at the position of roots. Water is delivered at or near the root zone of plants, drop by drop. This method can be the most water-efficient method of irrigation, if managed properly, since evaporation and runoff are minimized.

Sprinkler or overhead irrigation

In sprinkler or overhead irrigation, water is piped to one or more central locations within the field and distributed by overhead high-pressure sprinklers or guns.

Center pivot irrigation

Center pivot irrigation is a form of sprinkler irrigation consisting of several segments of pipe (usually galvanized steel or aluminum) joined together and supported by trusses, mounted on wheeled towers with sprinklers positioned along its length. The system moves in a circular pattern and is fed with water from the pivot point at the center of the arc.

Lateral move (side roll, wheel line)

A series of pipes, each with a wheel of about 1.5 m diameter permanently affixed to its midpoint and sprinklers along its length, are coupled together at one edge of a field. Water is supplied at one end using a large hose. After sufficient water has been applied, the hose is removed and the remaining assembly rotated either by hand or with a purpose-built mechanism, so that the sprinklers move 10 m across the field. The hose is reconnected. The process is repeated until the opposite edge of the field is reached. This system is less expensive to install than a center pivot, but much more labor intensive to operate, and it is limited in the amount of water it can carry.