green roofs

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green roofs

A natural heating/cooling alternative that provides thermal insulation and evaporative cooling due to water circulating from plants. See also: Heating/cooling systems

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This month's article about vegetated roofs (page 26) will help you to evaluate the bumper crop of sustainability and cost benefits that a green roof can provide.

Find Funds for Growing Your Green Roof

Admittedly, green roofs are complicated, expensive and require ongoing maintenance, but they turn an ugly, underused part of a building's real estate into a major asset.

New York's roofs the last grand green frontier

This will allow hotels, offices, hospitals and other commercial properties to finance green roofs while preserving capital and potentially qualifying for off balance sheet treatment.

CounterpointeSRE Program Announces Financing for Green Roofs

Several studies about green roofs and green walls focused on thermal performance of single roofs or walls (Cheng et al.

The effects of exterior vegetation systems on building energy use

Although the green roof market continues to grow, there is still an enormous potential for new green roofs to be installed on tens of billions of square feet across North America.

Green Roofs are Growing Food and Biodiversity in Cities like Toronto, Washington, and Montreal

Green roofs, depending on how they're set up, can also massively reduce energy usage since they insulate the roof of the building where the most heat is lost.

Editor's view

Green roofs may seem like a new development, but they've been in use for nearly 100 years.

Cities encourage green roofs

NO LONGER A novel, fringe feature, green roofs at healthcare facilities now have a good decade under their belt, during which time significant advances have been made in plant technology, installation systems, irrigation strategies, roofing structures, design processes, and maintenance protocols.

View from the top: green roofs in healthcare have come a long way over the past decade, with earlier missteps yielding plenty of lessons to be applied to a new generation of healing spaces

Green roofs also reduce the need for air conditioning, thus lessening the "urban heat island" effect--a phenomenon in which concentrated human activity and energy use make metropolitan areas hotter.

Green roofs promote urban sustainability in New York City

Green roofs are important technology and planning tools that can be used to help urban center to respond to the climate changes and improve urban environmental quality.

Influence of residents' preference of urban agriculture at rooftop garden on awareness about rooftop garden

While green roofs are incredible engineering feats that provide insulation and storm-water management, their lush greenery could be putting building owners and managers at risk for an invasion of pests.

4 tips for pest control on green roofs

Further afield, there are wineries with green roofs in New Zealand, including Mt.