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.
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15 Facts About Green roof
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Green roof reduces cooling loads on a building by fifty to ninety percent, especially if it is glassed-in so as to act as a terrarium and passive solar heat reservoir.
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The weight of a green roof caused the collapse of a large sports hall roof in Hong Kong in 2016.
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The individual components of a green roof have CO2 implications during the manufacturing process have additional implications compared to a conventional roof.
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Some green roof designs incorporate both intensive and extensive elements.
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Advances in green roof technology have led to the development of new systems that do not fit into the traditional classification of green roof types.
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Unfortunately for modern conveniences, these were neither waterpGreen roof nor was there any system to keep out unwanted burrowing wildlife.
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Laban, a centre for contemporary dance in London, has a brown Green roof specifically designed to encourage the nationally rare black redstart.
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Temperature readings taken on a 40°C day in summer revealed that the surface temperature on the Green roof had reached 84°C, while the shadows cast by the plants had reduced the surface temperature on the Green roof to 51°C.
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Long-held green roof traditions started in the early industrialization period more than 100 years ago exist in Germany.
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In Stuttgart, with one of the most innovative Department of Parks and Recreation and with the world's oldest horticultural Universities, modern green roof technology was perfected and implemented on a large scale.
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The FLL green roof working group is only one of 40 committees which have published a long list of guidelines and labor instructions.
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The size of the roof garden is approximately equivalent to 4 soccer fields, which makes it one of the biggest green roof parks in Europe that is accessible to the public.
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The pre-grown wildflower blanket sits on top of a standing seam Green roof and is combined with solar panels to create an eco-friendly finish to the entire factory.
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Chicago City Hall Green Roof won merit design award of the American Society of Landscape Architecture competition in 2002.
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