This fact makes green roofs more practical for new development rather than retrofitting. There are a number of design considerations that will affect the efficiency of green roofs. Some of these ...

Mayor Kasim Reed this morning is unveiling the city’s design for a 1,000-space, $48 million parking deck at Grant Park that will replace the space-wasting, seven-acre parking lot off Boulevard ...

Green roofs are part of a design movement to integrate nature into cities. The principles underscoring the movement are clear: Nature benefits human health and well-being. Menu.

Green construction has been a growing trend for several years. Daylighting, green roofs, solar panels, water management, and certification under the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership ...

A green roof, anything about 10 to 15 centimetres deep with soil, plants and a growing mat, can reduce surface temperature by as much as 20 degrees, a study by Irga and colleagues Fraser Torpy and ...

Scores of companies are selling membranes, soils and irrigation systems, but Scholz-Barth who teaches a class on green roofs at Harvard's Graduate School of Design says these complex green roof ...

Carole Hunter and Bil Taylor's roof is green, but not because they have an odd sense of style. Their roof is home to an environment-friendly, thriving desert garden. "It's unique, and people are ...

This week, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require that certain new buildings be built with a green roof—an eco-friendly design technique that sows plants above a roofline. This ...

Bill Clinton likes to brag about his presidential library being an eco-friendly building. Now even the roof is going green. Over the past two weeks, workers have been hoisting 90 species of plants ...

A green roof on San Francisco's Bernal Hill. (Credit: Courtesy of Ike Edeani) (This post originally appeared in the online science magazine Hawkmoth. Follow @HawkmothMag to discover more of their work ...

The parking lot makes is tucked underground to make room for a new city park that ... A clever and eco-conscious design, not only does the green roof lot keep unsightly pavement from ...