Green roofs use an engineered substrate, rather than natural soil, to support plant growth. There are a number of commercial varieties available, but these are often shipped considerable distances from supplier to consumer and can be expensive. To reduce the cost of our roofs, it would be best if we could produce our own green […]
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Here is a green roof and deck we are designing for a job in Park Slope Brooklyn. The deck area ranges from 900-1100 square feet. It would be made out of salvaged fir or possibly Black Locust if budget permits. The pergolas are intentionally without many beams. The vegetation will be the main source of
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Here is the Green Roof Tax Abatement. The green roof tax abatement makes a green roof a very sound financial investment. With the rebate it barely costs more to get a green roof than it does to install a crappy tar roof. And if you include that a green roof lasts at least twice as
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As brooklyn green roofers the first thing we suggest is a green roof. It has so many benefits and is at an affordable price where it would be silly not to. If that is not possible a cheaper alternative is to simply paint the roof white. The reduction in air quality both inside the house
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I just met with landscape designer Rachel Poritz who is designing a green roof design for some gas stations. Hey, even gas stations can benefit from a green roof. The gas stations are not just any pit stop though. They are Gaia Certified gas stations. They will sell gasoline derived from socially and environmentally responsible
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We have built a pergola on the green show house for solar pv and thermal. This raises it above the green roof. Green Architect Roxanne Ryce-Paul sketched up the drawings for it: It looks really great. Eco Brooklyn green builder and project manager Jack Watson built it with his crew.
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Here is the list of sedum we installed on the Brooklyn green show house green roof installation. We got them from motherplants.net, a great source of green roof plants. We picked these sedum because they will do well in Brooklyn. SEDUM ACER Sedum acre, a yellow-flowered, short-statured plant that does well on cold climate roofs,
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If you are putting a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone (like we just did) chances are you don’t have a lot of space for soil and plants to be laying around. This means you need to get your materials the day before you plan on installing your green roof. We recommend getting the plants
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We just installed the green roof on the Brooklyn Green Show House. Here are the material costs to build a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone. Total Roof area 600 sq.ft. Green Roof area 500 sq.ft. Roof Prep This stage is about getting as much insulation and waterproofing on as possible. A green roof gives
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In Brooklyn there aren’t that many pitched roofs. You get a lot of them in certain areas, especially Ditmas Park. We have a client in that area who approached us to replace their asphalt roof with the same. We are green roofers in Brooklyn so we come up when people do internet searches. But since
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