Green & climate · for business
Every summer, Genoa and cities across Italy break new heat records. The oldest solution is also the most effective: planting trees. We've been doing it since 1880.
Roof garden created by Peirano in the centre of Genoa
The problem
Asphalt, concrete and dark rooftops soak up the sun all day and release it back at night. The result has a precise name — the urban heat island — and a very real cost: city centres can run as much as 5 °C hotter than the green areas around them, air conditioning works harder, energy bills climb and air quality suffers.
Businesses feel it twice over: in their working spaces — ever hotter yards, warehouses, terraces and offices — and in the environmental responsibility that customers, employees and sustainability reports now expect them to account for.
The good news? Part of the solution doesn't need inventing. It grows.
What a tree does
Shade, evapotranspiration, absorption of CO₂ and airborne dust: a mature tree works for the environment every day, free of charge, for decades. Average figures documented in the scientific literature.*
* Indicative figures from urban forestry studies (European Environment Agency, US EPA, scientific literature): they vary with species, age and setting. A tree won't cancel out a company's emissions — but it offsets part of them and improves the microclimate, from day one and more with every year it grows.
We've already done it
This is no rendering: it's a roof garden we created in the centre of Genoa. Where there was once membrane and gravel, olives, oleanders and Mediterranean shrubs now grow — a fragment of maquis that shades, absorbs and cools. Drag the slider to see before and after.
The solutions
Four practical ways to bring greenery — and the degrees it shaves off — to where you work. Designed, planted and cared for by a family that has been growing for four generations.
Instant-impact trees for headquarters, car parks and outdoor areas: shade where you need it, temperatures down, and a company entrance that speaks for itself. We choose species suited to the Ligurian climate, plant them and look after them as they grow.
The roof is the hottest surface of any building: greening it turns it into natural insulation, holds back rainwater and gives the city back a piece of landscape. Like the one we created in the heart of Genoa.
When there's no room on the ground, you go up: green walls that shield façades from the sun, absorb noise and turn a plain wall into a living mosaic that changes colour with the seasons.
Greenery for offices and company terraces with regular care — and symbolic projects made real: a tree for every employee, genuinely planted, with photos and figures to tell the story in your sustainability report.
Why it pays
Real trees, with real numbers: surfaces greened, species planted, estimates of CO₂ absorbed. Tangible — and photogenic — material for reports and communications.
Greenery in the office and in shared spaces reduces stress and makes every room more pleasant: you notice it in the air you breathe and in the climate — including the one between colleagues.
Shade on buildings and green surfaces in place of dark ones: in summer the cooling systems work less hard, and the energy bills show it.
Premises set in greenery are lovelier to work in and stronger on the market: the landscape is the only "installation" that appreciates as it grows.
How we work
We come and see your spaces: sun, wind, surfaces, possibilities. The right project grows out of the place, not the catalogue.
Species, quantities, timings and costs — with an honest estimate of what those trees will do for your microclimate and your CO₂.
Plants from our own nursery, planted by experienced staff with the right equipment — even for large specimens.
Watering, pruning, check-ups: a tree is an investment that improves with time. Just like us, since 1880.
Let's talk
A courtyard, a roof, a terrace, the entrance to your headquarters: send us a couple of photos and a couple of lines. We'll reply with concrete ideas, timings and a quote — and if needed, we'll come and take a look in person.
