Green roof
A 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. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another form of green roofs which are used to treat greywater. Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system constitute green roof.
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- enA 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. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another form of green roofs which are used to treat greywater. Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system constitute green roof.
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- enA 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. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another form of green roofs which are used to treat greywater. Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system constitute green roof. Green roofs serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, increasing benevolence and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by providing a more aesthetically pleasing landscape, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. Green roofs are suitable for retrofit or redevelopment projects as well as new buildings and can be installed on small garages or larger industrial, commercial and municipal buildings. They effectively use the natural functions of plants to filter water and treat air in urban and suburban landscapes. There are two types of green roof: intensive roofs, which are thicker, with a minimum depth of 12.8 cm (5+1⁄16 in), and can support a wider variety of plants but are heavier and require more maintenance, and extensive roofs, which are shallow, ranging in depth from 2 cm (13⁄16 in) to 12.7 cm (5 in), lighter than intensive green roofs, and require minimal maintenance. The term green roof may also be used to indicate roofs that use some form of green technology, such as a cool roof, a roof with solar thermal collectors or photovoltaic panels. Green roofs are also referred to as eco-roofs, oikosteges, vegetated roofs, living roofs, greenroofs and VCPH (Horizontal Vegetated Complex Partitions)
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- www.researchgate.net/project/Fifth-Dimension-Green-Roofs-and-Walls-in-Urban-Areas-research-program
- www.roofmeadow.com/wp-content/uploads/Harvesting__From_GR.pdf
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- 14th Street – Union Square (New York City Subway)
- Absorption of water
- American Society of Landscape Architecture
- Aquaponics
- Arcology
- Asphalt
- Augustenborg, Malmö
- Basel
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- Blue roof
- Bo01
- Botanical garden
- Brownfield
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- Building insulation
- Burnaby
- Calamus (palm)
- Canadian War Museum
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- Cantons of Switzerland
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- Combined sewer
- Condensation
- Container garden
- Cool roof
- Dearborn, Michigan
- Derry & Toms
- Dongtan, Shanghai
- Drainage
- Ecovillage
- Efficient energy use
- Egypt
- Emporia (shopping mall)
- Energy-efficient landscaping
- Eureka Tower
- Evaporative cooling
- Evesham
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- Ford Motor Company
- Fort Dunlop
- Geisenheim
- Green Building Council of Australia
- Green infrastructure
- Greening
- Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory
- Green wall
- Green-winged orchid
- Greywater
- Greywater treatment
- Habitat
- Habitat destruction
- Hamilton, Ontario
- Hamilton City Hall
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Hannover
- Heat island
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- Horniman Museum
- HVAC
- Iceland
- Irrigation
- Jubilee Campus
- Kensington
- Kensington Roof Gardens
- L'Historial de la Vendée
- Laban Dance Centre
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
- Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne
- Low-impact development (U.S. and Canada)
- Low-impact development (UK)
- Malmö
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- Michael Bloomberg
- Millennium Park
- Mineral wool
- Moss
- Neubrandenburg
- New York City
- Ottawa
- Passive solar building design
- Pest (organism)
- Photovoltaic panels
- Pollutant
- Rain
- Rainwater harvesting
- Rainwater harvesting in Canada
- Ralph Hancock (landscape gardener)
- River Rouge Plant
- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
- Roof
- Roof garden
- Root barrier
- Sanitary sewer overflow
- Santiago Calatrava
- Scandinavia
- Seattle
- Sedum
- Sihlpost
- Simon Fraser University
- Sod roof
- Solar radiation
- Solar thermal collector
- Static load
- Steven W. Peck
- Stormwater
- Stuttgart
- Subtropical climate vegetated roof
- Sustainable city
- Terrarium
- Thames
- The Pentagon
- Tillandsia
- Tillandsia bergeri
- Toronto
- Toronto City Hall
- Toxteth
- Transpiration
- Turning Torso
- United States Coast Guard
- United States Postal Service
- University of Nottingham
- University of Toronto
- Urban heat island effect
- Urban runoff
- Urban wilderness
- Vancouver Convention Centre
- Västra Hamnen
- Washington metropolitan area
- Waste stabilization pond
- Waterproofing
- Water treatment
- Water-wise gardening
- William McDonough
- Wollishofen
- Zeckendorf Towers
- Zürich
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- Tetto verde
- Toiture végétale
- Verda tegmento
- Viherkatto
- Yeşil çatı
- Žaliasis stogas
- Zelená strecha
- Zelená střecha
- Zelena streha
- Zeleni krov
- Zeleni krov
- Zielony dach
- Πράσινη στέγη
- Зелени кров
- Озеленение крыш
- Озеленення дахів
- גג ירוק
- بام سبز
- سقف أخضر
- பசுங்கூரை
- หลังคาเขียว
- 屋上緑化
- 綠化屋頂
- 옥상녹화
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