In 2015, Intrinsyx was retained by a Fortune 100 client with a campus being developed (late 2018 opening) at a highly contaminated former aerospace manufacturing facility. We worked with the client’s Environmental Health & Safety team, their architectural firm, their landscaping firm, as well as state and federal regulators. We developed a tailored planting scheme for their campus using our specialized trees inoculated with pollutant-degrading microbes that can survive and thrive on highly contaminated sites while remediating the contamination in soil and groundwater and beautifying the campus.  

 

Site notes: 

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• The client site has several pollutants in the groundwater 

• Several decades of expensive Pump & Treat systems yielded little change 

• For Phase 1 (March 2018), we installed 750 trees inoculated with pollutant-degrading microbes 

• By using our proprietary collection of trees and microbes, these inoculated trees can survive the site’s high saltwater (recycled water use and proximity to the ocean) 

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RESULTS:

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The hybrid poplar trees are thriving, with pollutants safely being accumulated and degraded inside the trees, and the campus is open. Many trees are now 40-50 feet tall.

 

Our Integrated Biological Systems may earn LEED Points for: 

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• Stormwater management 

• Remediation of contaminated sites 

• Innovation 

• Added shade (heat island effect) 

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We are proud to work with Atlas Labs, an innovative Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art practice based out of Sacramento, CA.