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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Constructed Wetland

Definition: a water treatment facility which duplicates the processes occurring in natural wetlands, constructed wetlands, and which consists of complex, integrated systems in which water, plants, animals, microorganisms and the environment - sun, soil, air - interact to improve water quality