A university has added a green roof on its campus so scientists can study the impact of growing plants on top of buildings.

Join Columbia Green Technologies team at the upcoming Seattle Building Enclosure Council 2025 Symposium, May 13, 2025.

In the two decades since it was installed, the green roof at Asbury Woods has helped reduce runoff and carbon dioxide, contributed to the cooling of the building beneath it and offered a home to ...

A biodiverse green roof may be designed to replicate habitats similar to those found ona brownfield site - a place such as a wasteland or post-industrial area. Rubble, sand, concrete and crushed ...

Green roofs provide many benefits including storm water runoff control, mitigation of urban heat-island effects, building energy conservation, and provides habitat for wildlife and pollinators. The ...

<p>Green roofs consist of soil and plant layers placed over the roofing, usually a mastic or rubber layer, of a &ndash;generally&mdash;flat roof. Calvin College is one of the few academic institutions ...

This is designed to enhance the interdisciplinary environmentalism that drives the life of the building. Green Roof: Like the overall landscaping of the Roux site, the green roof utilizes native and ...

Meet the Keynote Speakers for the Upcoming World Congress on Green Roofs and Facades in Basel on June 5-6, 2025.

Kansas City’s premier art museum, centered in a Beaux-Arts building about to hit 92 years old, is expanding to the west, with ...

Green roofs now cover less than 0.1% of the city’s million-plus buildings, but their impact punches above their weight, especially here. Five standout projects illustrate how they’re reshaping ...

and to support Sheffield City Council vision of Sheffield as the UK’s green roof capital. Most buildings the University has built since 2005 feature intentionally vegetated green roofs; and some ...