As small air pockets between soil particles fill with water, the green roof acts like a sponge and soaks up as much rain as it can hold. This mitigates the problems of urban stormwater runoff in two ...

Mark Winterer, co-founder and owner of Recover Green Roofs will give a presentation on Green Roofs: Rewilding Our Cities on ...

Bees, rare orchids and hoverflies are just some of the wildlife that can live on urban green roofs. Green roofs are designed to allow plants to grow on their surface. They need to be strong enough to ...

Urban heat islands (UHIs) are becoming a major concern for cities worldwide. As the summer sun blazes down, concrete jungles ...

Mark Winterer, co-founder and owner of Recover Green Roofs will give a presentation on "Green Roofs: Rewilding Our Cities" on ...

Urban green infrastructure, including man-made features such as vegetated roofs and walls, produce regulating, provisioning and immaterial ecosystem services such as improvement of microclimate, ...

Stainless steel ropes and Webnet from Jakob Rope Systems were used in the Oerlikon Green Shade ... to redefine urban spaces. Inspired by Oerlikon's industrial heritage, the shade roof spans ...