Intensive green roof

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/udi/index.html Urban Design International is an essential forum for the exchange of information and debate concerning issues of urban design and management. The article ‘More green space in a denser city: Critical relations between user experience and urban form’ interests me. This article informs about new approach on how urban design affects green space accessibility, how urban structure distributes open space to people and how it creates users and…

An overview of green roof systems including benefits and descriptions of the types: intensive, semi-intensive, and extensive.

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Intensive Roof with Rainwater Harvesting and Irrigation System from Jay R. Smith Mfg Co. For more information about Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co.'s Green Building Products, please visit www.jrsmith.com/green_building

Fig. 1. Summary of green roof types based on IGRA classification (IGRA, 2008). (For interpre version of this article.) - "Green roof systems: a study of public attitudes and preferences in southern Spain."

“Heather with Lavender” is the ideal green roof system build-up for growing a wide variety of blooming perennials, aromatic shrubs and ornamental grasses.

RoofsThe threat of climate change is leading to an increased demand for green and blue roofs from planning authorities. BMI UK & Ireland product systems manager Amanda de Sousa explores the needs they meet in the context of drainage.

Jun 14, 2013 - SUNY ESF is the oldest and most distinguished institution in the United States that focuses on the study of the environment.

Green Roof systems are assemblies of different engineered layers, mimicking natural soil profiles to cultivate plants on man-made structures.