Green Roofs Inforamtion

Image courtesy of earth pledge depending on the structure the green roof is being built on green roofs can either be intensive or extensive.

Green roofs inforamtion.

As a green diva of course i love that green roofs are beneficial to the environment. Green roofs transform the tops of houses and businesses into urban gardens. They fall into three main categories extensive intensive and semi intensive. The green roof acts as a bio filter basically as a big sponge that sucks up dirt and pollution in the air.

A green roof or living roof generally incorporates a system of layers that include waterproofing drainage soil and growing vegetation. They act as a kind of trap for storm water absorbing 50 to 80 per cent of rainfall and cooling the excess before it washes into the storm drain system. The international greenroof greenwall industry s resource and online information portal. It has since been surpassed as largest in the world but is still the largest living roof in north america at 454 000 square feet 10 4 acres.