urban development with green roofs
A green roof can transform dark urban structures into a green scape. There are many benefits related to green roofs:
· Green roofs improve insulation: reduce heating and cooling (green roofs could decrease urban temperature)
· Green roofs are known for their ability to reduce storm water run off: storm water run off carries contaminants, including hazardous heavy metals from paved surfaces and rooftops. Storm water run off has been identified as a major source of water pollution.
· Filter pollutants and CO2 (carbon dioxide) out of the air
· Green roofs can even lengthen the life span of roofs resulting in decreased maintenance and savings in replacement costs (economic benefit)
· Green roofs reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect: Conventional building materials absorb the sun's radiation and reflect it back as heat, making cities hotter than surrounding suburbs. Reductions of the Urban Heat Island Effect will also minimise the spreading of dust and production of smog. This, in turn, can potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
· A green roof provides habitat for plants and animals
· Leisure facility for building users
· Sound insulation
· Aesthetic appeal
· Green roofs can increase the value of the property and marketability
For more information on green roofs and to see ground-breaking green roof projects in Australia, click on this link: Green Roof
Stylish sustainability
Outrageous green roofs
DécoR Pebble has been a major supplier of decorative pebbles and recycled crushed glass for many green roof projects, which present a great deal more to the urban scenery than simply the apparent environmental benefits. The (sad) truth is that not everyone may be inspired by these ecological benefits. As such, we need to communicate the fact that green roofs are not only aesthetically appealing, but there is also the possibility of having 'wicked' and uncanny green roofs, inspired by post-modern art that many of us still do not appreciate.
Green roofs: Why are green roofs important to our future?
green roof, green roofs, sustainable landscaping
Even though a green roof is an ancient concept, many of us fail to realise the importance of green roofs and what exactly they are. We are constantly bombarded with messages telling us that our climate is dramatically changing and that we need to do something about this. Green roofs are a solution. Green Roof project
green roof projects with decorative pebbles and crushed recycled glass
Green roofing transforms the crowded and dark urban structure into a green and luxuriant landscape. The newest green roof project is Baulderstone Hornibrook's Breakfast Point development in Sydney designed by Newcastle based landscape architects EJE, showing the recreation of the adjoining Parramatta River on the two lower rooflevel decks of the building, following the application of a waterproof membrane. This emergent universal fashion of roof scaping incorporated the use of compressed recycled coloured glass and manufactured natural stone tumbled pebbles. A mid blue coloured glass was used in 40cm wide strips to create the shape of the river with the infill 'water' utilizing a 10-15 mm Jade Green pebble. The land areas were fashioned using a Black Jade pebble with the focal arterial roads in the area set using Bushstone Red crushed recycled glass. The current range offered includes DécoR Glass and DécoR Pebbles, which offer ideal light weight permanent coloured aggregate for use in the roofscaping of urban apartment roof decks. The 5-10mm glass & pebble aggregates can be loose laid or mixed with an adhesive epoxy or acrylic resin to permanently hold them in place.
Well designed green roofs give rise to balanced, living ecosystems. Their protective and sustainable attributes preserve energy and moderate sound reflection and transmission. Green roofs have the ability to lessen the warming effect of urban heat islands. Another noteworthy advantage of a green roof is control of storm water overspill, an increasingly significant ecological aspiration of sustainable landscape design.
Thus, green roofing not only makes the cityscape a striking structure it also has environmental benefits.
