Glossary

Terms for Architecture, Green Building & Energy

This glossary includes more than 300 solar terms, as well as hundreds of additional sustainable design and construction terms.

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Wetland

Definition: areas such as swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and of a duration sufficient to support - and which under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions