The first study to compare the performance of different types of green roofs has been completed by The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and suggests that buyers ...
As the popularity of vegetated roofs grows in the U.S., Building Teams are finding new methods for greening rooftops. A recent trend is to adapt green roof technology for low- and steep-slope ...
<p>Green roofs consist of soil and plant layers placed over the roofing, usually a mastic or rubber layer, of a &ndash;generally&mdash;flat roof. Calvin College is one of the few academic institutions ...
Excavation is now underway for the new Flight Projects Building, Building 36, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The building was designed to bring in light and will include a ...
A Tongji University research project has provided evidence that green roofs can remove microplastics from rainwater, according to Anthropocene. The vegetative building toppers have long been used to ...
Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a multi-published NYC-based writer whose work has appeared in myriad publications ranging from Forbes to Real Simple to Cosmopolitan. She’s written hundreds of articles as ...
Md Sazan Rahman receives Schulish Fellowship from Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - McGill University, and Doctoral research scholarships from Fonds de recherche du Québec -Nature et Technologies ...
There are a lot of ways to size up buildings, whether by measuring their height, comparing styles of architecture or dissecting their histories. But in the era of climate change, more and more ...
When David Michaels moved to Chicago this year, he chose the Emme apartment building in part because of the third-floor green roof, which has a lawn, an area for grilling, fire pits and a 3,000-square ...
Toronto now requires up to 50% green roof coverage on multi-unit residential dwellings over six stories, schools, nonprofit housing, and commercial and industrial buildings. The city of Toronto late ...
The Denver Green Buildings Ordinance is a building code that requires buildings larger than 25,000 square feet to dedicate a section of their roofs to solar or rooftop gardens, with portions ranging ...