One strategy for addressing impacts associated with urban development is to reduce the functional area of developed surface. The European community, and especially Germany, has opted to do so by re-vegetating roofs. Green roofs have been associated with a variety of environmental and economic benefits, including the ability to retain precipitation, filter pollutants, reduce maximum rooftop […]
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We have been commissioned by a company in Manhattan to do a green roof. The first step was to do an engineer’s report, price analysis and 3D drawings. With that information they will have the ammunition to move the process to the next step of installing the roof. Here is the inspection and drawings. The
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A lot of numbers are being thrown around for the cost of green roofs. If you buy a modular grown off site system it can be $45 per square foot. I’ve even heard of systems costing $200/sq.ft. If you install it yourself with the bare minimum of materials off the shelf it can be $5
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We are designing and building a green roof in Manhattan. As one of the few green roof companies in Manhattan it is a very exciting time. Differance of Green Roof Beween Manhattan and Brooklyn Building a green roof in Manhattan is a totally different feeling than doing a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone. Putting green
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If you have ever wondered how much it would cost to install a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone, how long it would last, how much you would save in heating and cooling, the payback and all sorts of other information then you can go to this green roof cost/benefit calculator. It is called the
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The Brooklyn green show house has a green roof, solar panels, and solar water heater panels. Needless to say that is a lot to fit on a 600 square foot space. So we’re looking at ways to fit it all in. Considerations are: Make it look nice from the street and back yard. Make it
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I love the abundance of energy emerging for green roofs in Brooklyn and New York. Installing a green roof in Brooklyn is the smartest think I can think of. When I go on a Brooklyn rooftop and see all the plane flat roofs I see a possible forest of verdant green and fauna. I see
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Things are looking good for green roofs in Brooklyn! As this article states there is a growing interest amongst local politicians in supporting green roofs. The surge is really gaining momentum. We have so many thousands of wonderful, flat, sun filled roofs in Brooklyn – prime real estate for a verdant canopy of green and
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