Garden Roof Systems (GRS) are specialized roof systems that support vegetation growth on rooftops. Industry claims that the GRS offer a number of benefits such as longer service life for the waterproofing membrane, reduction in the heating/cooling needs of a building, thereby lowering the energy demands and associated greenhouse gas emissions. It is also expected that GRS can reduce storm water runoff and improve water quality. Technical advances in roofing membranes and components offer techniques to install GRS in different climatic conditions. To quantify the engineering performance of the GRS in cold climates, National Research Council Canada instrumented and monitored the field performance of a generic GRS at its Ottawa campus.Les toit...
Conventional green roofs have been widely accepted as a climate change adaptation strategy. However,...
Although green roofs (also called garden roofs) provide many benefits such as reducing heating/cooli...
<p>Purpose: To see how temperature, soil moisture, and light availability differ between green and c...
Rooftop gardens or green roofs have the potential to reduce urban heat island and storm water runoff...
There is increasing interest in the garden roof system as a sustainable building design option in No...
Les concepteurs nord-am\ue9ricains sont de plus en plus nombreux \ue0 consid\ue9rer les toitures-jar...
Garden roof systems (GRS) are specialized roofing systems that support vegetation growth on rooftops...
Green roof technology has been used within Canada as early as the first French settlers (1600) in th...
Garden roofs, sometimes known as green roofs or rooftop gardens, are specialized roof systems that s...
Vegetation, primarily forests, has been identified as an important component of any strategy to redu...
Increased urbanization leads to an increasing amount of impervious surfaces and a decrease ofthe nat...
Roofs in Canada are exposed to a wide variety of structural and climatic stresses: from snow loads a...
Over the past 20 years, a large number of studies have been published on reducing storm runoff by va...
Global average temperatures have continued to rise as a result of global warming in the past two dec...
The hydrology and stormwater management benefits of green roofs (GRs) when integrated with photovolt...
Conventional green roofs have been widely accepted as a climate change adaptation strategy. However,...
Although green roofs (also called garden roofs) provide many benefits such as reducing heating/cooli...
<p>Purpose: To see how temperature, soil moisture, and light availability differ between green and c...
Rooftop gardens or green roofs have the potential to reduce urban heat island and storm water runoff...
There is increasing interest in the garden roof system as a sustainable building design option in No...
Les concepteurs nord-am\ue9ricains sont de plus en plus nombreux \ue0 consid\ue9rer les toitures-jar...
Garden roof systems (GRS) are specialized roofing systems that support vegetation growth on rooftops...
Green roof technology has been used within Canada as early as the first French settlers (1600) in th...
Garden roofs, sometimes known as green roofs or rooftop gardens, are specialized roof systems that s...
Vegetation, primarily forests, has been identified as an important component of any strategy to redu...
Increased urbanization leads to an increasing amount of impervious surfaces and a decrease ofthe nat...
Roofs in Canada are exposed to a wide variety of structural and climatic stresses: from snow loads a...
Over the past 20 years, a large number of studies have been published on reducing storm runoff by va...
Global average temperatures have continued to rise as a result of global warming in the past two dec...
The hydrology and stormwater management benefits of green roofs (GRs) when integrated with photovolt...
Conventional green roofs have been widely accepted as a climate change adaptation strategy. However,...
Although green roofs (also called garden roofs) provide many benefits such as reducing heating/cooli...
<p>Purpose: To see how temperature, soil moisture, and light availability differ between green and c...