Conquering Extreme Climates: Innovative Solutions for Urban Environments

Preparing Green Roofs for Winter: Essential Maintenance Tips

Just few weeks ago, we published a blog about unbearable heat wave and its consequences - which can be mitigated with the vegetated rooftops and other types of green urban infrastructure. And now, holding cup of tea in hand and looking through the window at morning freeze, we ...

Managing Outflow and Green Roof Detention Systems: Enhancing Water Management

As urban populations soar, cities are facing unprecedented challenges. As they become more and more densely populated systems, they are increasingly marked by a host of daily social, energy, logistic, waste, traffic, and environmental challenges, all unfolding atop solid, ...

GREEN ROOFS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

Hot summer day in a city. Looking for breeze of fresh air, relief for body and soul in greenery. Sounds familiar? Very recently, just few days ago the Olympic games 2024 in Paris ended. You might have already heard about serious issues facing future summer Olympics - by 2050, ...

The Significance of Lightweight in Green Roof Systems: comparing Different Designs

Summer holiday time is ideal for travelling. If you stop in Austria, don't miss the attractive, greened Kunst Haus in Vienna. Magnificent building, eye-catching with breeze of the fresh air coming from the plants, successfully incorporated into building envelope. It feels good, ...

HARNESSING ENERGY EFFICIENCY WITH GREEN ROOFS: REDUCING THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT

The fact that a green roof contributes to buildings' energy efficiency is already well known. Our readers could find information about Urbanscape green roofs effect on energy efficiency in the last decade in our blogs as well as published articles. Nevertheless, the topic ...

Ensuring Fire Safety: The Non-Flammability of Urbanscape Green roll

Fire is important, but unpredictable and powerful force - if not controlled it has destructive consequences for our lives, property and nature itself. Use of non-combustible materials is thus one of key prerequisites in building sector, ensuring safety and health of inhabitants.

Transparent environmental information for green roofs: how and why should it be disclosed

At the first glance, it is not easy to understand the complete array of green roof’s environmental impacts. There are many attempts and comprehensive studies of this topic.

REALLY HOW GREEN ARE GREEN ROOFS: WITHOUT GREEN WASHING!

There are thousands of green roof benefit claims widely available out there. In this enormous amount of different information, facts and figures, how to distinguish what is green washing and which claims are based on actual evidences, time series measurements and data analysis?

FUTURE CITIES: How Many Green Roofs Does It Take To Make A Difference To Climate?

Of course, there is no single answer to this question. Many factors need to come into play for our environments to begin to heal and improve. However, while we dream of futuristic, utopian green cities, fully built from sustainable materials, rich with plantlife and inviting ...