The Green Roof

A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium planted over a waterproofing membrane.

The green roof.

They fall into three main categories extensive intensive and semi intensive. Green roofs for healthy cities grhc is the north american industry association for the green roof and wall sectors. Yet there is a new trend that breaks up the monotony of common roofs. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems.

Green roof systems may be modular with drainage layers filter cloth growing media and plants already prepared in movable often interlocking grids or loose laid built up whereby each component of the system may be installed separately. Green roofs are also known as vegetative or eco roofs. Long popular in europe green rooftops have begun to appeal to homeowners businesses and even cities as an attractive way to promote environmentalism while solving the problems of conventional roofs. The international greenroof greenwall industry s resource and online information portal.

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