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, ...

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 ...

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 ...