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What Can You Grow On A Green Roof?
Deciding what to grow on a green roof involves lots of careful thought. But please don’t be fooled into thinking that you can only choose between sedums or wildflowers. If you design your extensive green roof buildup to include a good deep layer of substrate, you...
Essential Green Roof Maintenance Tasks For Autumn and Winter
Once you have invested in a green roof, you’ll want to maximise its performance throughout its lifespan. And that, means investing in regular maintenance. For most extensive green roofs, two to three maintenance visits per year are advised. You’ll need to check the...
How Do Green Roofs Work?
Green roofs are becoming more and more mainstream. But what are they for and how do they work? GRO explains. Green roofing advocates cite a long list of benefits from green roofing, but can they really be true? Is it possible for a few plants and a layer of growing...
Journey To The Green Roof Book Teaches Children About Green Roofing
The UK Government’ Build Back Greener Strategy aims to have the UK carbon net zero in 2050. I’m in my mid 50’s and there’s no guarantee I’ll be around to celebrate the achievement. However, by then my grandchildren will be in their 30’s and 40’s. They will likely be...
Could Green Roofing Help Protect Our Seas From Sewage Spills?
Following recent heavy rain, it has been reported that UK water companies have been compelled to discharge raw sewerage into our rivers and seas. News reports talk of the inconvenience and possible health hazards for humans wishing to swim. But of course, these...
Green Roof Maintenance Mythbusting
The GRO team regularly contribute mythbuster articles to Greenscape Magazine. Here’s an extract from our summer 2022 article which dispels the myth that extensive green roofs are self sufficient. Because extensive green roofs don’t have the same manicured appearance...
How To Choose A Green Roof Company
Green roofs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. From garden sheds and bus shelters to eco-homes, warehouses and retail outlets, its a joy (and a relief) to see that more and more buildings are sporting living roofs. But a badly designed or badly built green roof...
New E-Learning Course Unravels The Mysteries Of Green Roofing
Have you ever wished that you had a better understanding of green roofs? Perhaps you are an architect needing more details so that you can bring biodiversity net gain into your projects? Or maybe you are a roofer who’d like to extend your services to installing green...
New report highlights how green and blue roofs can help mitigate climate change
A new report from the University of Southampton Energy and Climate Change Division of the School of Engineering, commissioned by the NFRC Charitable Trust, highlights some key steps that specifiers, building owners and home owners can take to use the roof to help...