Green roofs and walls can cool local temperatures by between 3.6°C and 11.3°C, depending on the city, according to a new study.
New Scientist reports that:
Eleftheria Alexandri and Phil Jones at the Welsh School of Architecture, at the University of Cardiff in the UK, mimicked the microclimate around and inside buildings using computer modelling. They compared [...]
Archive for September, 2007
30 Sep
Study shows green roofs cool cities
30 Sep
New green roof pics
Controlling Carbon, a blogsite run by the Innovation Studio at the Rhode Island School of Design, features these and other pics of living roofs.
28 Sep
Canada reaches new heights in rooftop agriculture
Montreal’s Gazette reports that since July, a city rooftop garden trialling an experimental ‘Biotop’ system has produced more than 113 kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetables. A 2,000 square foot rooftop produce could produce one tonne using this system, according to Marc-André Valiquette, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada biologist (pictured, right, with Action Communiterre’s Mathieu [...]
20 Sep
Green roof performance report released
The American Society of Landscape Architects has released a new Green Roof Performance Report following its green roof research project. It reports that its prototype green roof “retained thousands of gallons of stormwater, reduced building energy costs by hundreds of dollars a month, and significantly lowered outdoor air temperature”. The report examined various components of [...]
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