MIT students have established a start-up called Roofscapes to convert the pitched roofs of Paris into green spaces using timber structures. The structures would offer an opportunity to grow local food ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. The boldest feature of a completely “green” building is a ...

The “green” is a layer of vegetation planted on top of a building, incorporated into the roof structure. The resulting roof-plant concoction has been hailed as a significant step toward an ...

Many cities have created goals to reduce their carbon footprint over the next couple of years. One way they have found to do this is through the roofs of buildings, i.e. "green" and "cool" roofs. You ...

When technology companies such as Amazon and Apple roll out plans for a new campus, architects, engineers and landscape designers must come up with cutting-edge solutions. That's because tech firms ...

Green walls are regularly used throughout Europe and Asia, and in Tokyo they are considered more valuable than green roofs for cooling the city. But the vegetated green wall is still new to the ...

DENVER (CBS4) – A group of activists is pushing for a new building code that would require rooftop gardens on large structures across the city and county of Denver. Specialized gardens known as green ...

<p>Green roofs consist of soil and plant layers placed over the roofing, usually a mastic or rubber layer, of a &ndash;generally&mdash;flat roof. Calvin College is one of the few academic institutions ...

K2, a mounting system supplier, showcased a range of new solutions at Intersolar Europe, including a new mounting structure for green rooftops. It allows for portrait and landscape module elevation at ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Starting Monday, it’s official: Denver will have the nation’s most stringent, far-reaching mandate for rooftop gardens — a requirement that will affect both ...