The potential functions, benefits, services, and challenges of indoor vegetation could be measured any number of ways, and each stakeholder in the built environment process will be concerned with a particular metric, or a particular point of view. Could we manage to map the same properties of these vegetation systems to see where we can create synergistic opportunities to speak to multiple stakeholders simultaneously? Here we attempt to link the goals of multiple different frameworks. For example: the UN “Ecosystem Services” framework measures value through productive, regulating, supporting, and cultural services of ecosystems, while the “Indoor Environmental Quality” framework familiar to many building professionals which includes metrics of air quality, thermal comfort, acoustics, and lighting comfort, becomes a subset of the “regulating services” of an ecosystem. Image © Yale CEA
