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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Green Roof"”.
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Plants Roots Penetration Mechanism on Green Roof Waterproofing Membranes
Green roof waterproofing membrane tests faces critical limitations of being overly reliant on visual inspection. This result from the absence of a method which allows clear observation of plant roots during its growth. Preliminary study based on the Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung …
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More Than a Green Roof: An Analysis of Low Impact Development Policies and Practices
While the concept of green infrastructure is becoming increasingly popular, practitioners and institutions that implement it have varying perspectives on its meaning. This case study aimed to understand how a medium-sized municipality defines green infrastructure as a concept and incorporates it …
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DESIGNING FOR BIODIVERSITY TO INFLUENCE HABITAT ON A GREEN ROOF IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
… to enhance pollinator and avian diversity on a green roof in the District of Columbia. Biodiversity trends on green roofs in Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States are discussed. Focusing on North America, reconciliation ecology is explored through the use of case …
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Green Roofs in the Garden City: Exploring the Opportunities for Green Roof Policies in Missoula, Montana
… posed by urban environments, the practice of green, or vegetative, roofing has been promoted through policy measures by a number of cities in the United States and abroad. This project explores green roofing and the policies used to encourage the practice with the goal of recommending what …
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Green Roofs in the Garden City: Exploring the Opportunities for Green Roof Policies in Missoula, Montana
… posed by urban environments, the practice of green, or vegetative, roofing has been promoted through policy measures by a number of cities in the United States and abroad. This project explores green roofing and the policies used to encourage the practice with the goal of recommending what …
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Green Roof Exposure and Office Workers' Mental Health: Work-related Distress, Mental Fatigue, and Perceived Restoration
… health and wellbeing (Kaplan and Kaplan 1989). Green roofs can be one of the most easily accessible nature places for office workers in city centers. This study examines the relationship between green roofs and work-related distress, mental fatigue, and restoration. An online survey of 179 …
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Extensive green roof design in the City of Cape Town : barriers and opportunities for developing a green industry
In today's world of increasing energy costs and rapid ecosystem service decay, a result of direct human disturbance from development, habitat loss and fragmentation and the increasing frequencies of extreme weather events, it is critical that building practices in the next decade adopt a more …
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Evaluating the Hydrologic and Thermal Performance of a Green Roof in Syracuse: Measurements and Modeling of a Full-Scale System
… of traditional infrastructure rehabilitation, green infrastructure, which mimics natural systems, has become a popular solution. Green roofs are one prominent example of green infrastructure. These are engineered vegetative systems positioned on the top of roof structures have been widely …
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Exploring the response of urban storm sewer system to the implementation of green roofs
… of urban watersheds has become a hot topic. Green roofs, which have been reported as an effective means of reducing urban storm water runoff, have been widely used in Europe and are gaining increasing attention in the US. This thesis presents a method to study the changes of urban catchment …
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EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOF SUBSTRATE COMPOSITION: EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ON MATRIC POTENTIAL, HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY, PLANT GROWTH, AND STORMWATER RETENTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC.
While green roof (GR) systems have gained popularity as storm water management tools, more emphasis has been applied to studying performance aspects, including stormwater retention. Of particular importance is the substrate layer in which the vegetation grows, which contributes the majority of …
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The Effectiveness Of A Specifically Designed Green Roof Stormwater Treatment System Irrigated With Recycled Stormwater Runoff to Achieve Pollutant Removal and Stormwater Volume Reduction
… In this research, investigated is the use of a green roof irrigated with recycled stormwater runoff to remove pollutants from stormwater runoff and reduce the volume of stormwater runoff leaving developed areas. The green roof properties of interest are the filtration and biological processes as …
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Reliability analysis of green roofs under different storm scenarios
… in runoff caused by increasing impervious area. Green infrastructure offers an alternative method of runoff reduction, by using natural processes to infiltrate, store, and treat runoff at its source. In particular, green roofs can promise multiple benefits in terms of runoff reduction, air …
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Energy saving potential of various roof technologies
Unconventional roof technologies such as cool roofs and green roofs have been shown to reduce building heating and cooling load. Although previous studies suggest potential for energy savings through such technologies, many factors affect potential savings. To further investigate these factors, a …
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a garden in the sky
… become cramped, unhealthy, and unattractive. The rooftops of urban buildings offer exciting opportunities for remedying these trends. New rooftop designs highlight the need for more plant life and green space in urban areas, improve energy efficiency, and offer urban residents gardens to enjoy and …
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A Decision-Making Framework for Vegetated Roofing System Selection
… the "optimal" solution to a design problem. Green roofs have many different characteristics based on a variety of variables. Designers typically weigh the impacts of these characteristics in an implicit process based on intuition or past experience. But since vegetated roofing is a relatively …
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Vertical greening in compact cities applying vertical landscape in downtown Chicago with integrated analysis and design approaches
Compact cities as the globally norm are suffering green space insufficiency. Vertical greening (VG) including a green roof, living wall system and green façade is proposed as an effective solution for that. Benefits of VG are well-known, however, the success rate for its application is still low. …
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New York City local law 97 : an analysis of institutional response & decision making towards groundbreaking carbon emissions legislation
… Bill De Blasio) enacted its own version of the Green New Deal called the Climate Mobilization Act, a local law to amend its charter and administrative code to achieve certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Act comprises a series of ten bills passed by the New York City …
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