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 ...

SafetyPro GuardRail – Collective protection systems

Solutions for Sustainable Architecture That Make Us Feel Better and Live Better

Green infrastructure, such as green roofs and walls, can fulfil several urban and ecological functions, providing natural resource sinks to assist urban climate control, water management and form important green networks. Importantly, it also has positive social and ...

Beat the Four Horsemen: The Urgency of "Green" in Architecture ​

We live in a time when the impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt more regularly. Intense weather events, such as droughts or floods, as well as wildfires and pollution, have become a part of the everyday news cycle and must be addressed – not with fear and panic, ...

Walk the talk! Green roof versus brown roof

Imagine, that you are taking care of a green space around your house or in a park. Will you put the sole substrate on the ground and watch it regrow on its own, observe which invasive plants will burst the first ones? Probably not. You will either use prevegetated lawn mats or ...

PAINT IT GREEN

If you google the word »Landscape«, you learn that the term comes from the Dutch word landschap, the name given to paintings of the countryside. So, geographers have borrowed the word from artists. If you google images, the majority of photos will show you almost endless shades ...