Integrated Green Roofs Apartments

- Some of the work for promoting green roofs in Sweden is now carried on by the Scandinavian green infrastructure association, a NGO linked to the former institute. The new Bo01 urban residential development (in the Vstra Hamnen (Western Harbour) close to the foot of the Turning Torso office and apartment block, designed by Santiago Calatrava) is built on the site of old shipyards and industrial areas, and incorporates many green roofs.

- Department of Transportation Headquarters extensive green roof Washington, DC Sidwell Friends School extensive green roof Washington, DC Thin Flats Sustainable Urban Community extensive green roof Philadelphia, PA Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints intensive green roof Salt Lake City, UT Grant Park Village Apartments intensive green roof Portland, OR Center for Sustainable Landscape at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden intensive green roof Pittsburgh, PA EPA Region 1 Headquarters intensive green roof Boston, MA Next slide

- Impressive for all its benefits and environmental functions, Living Roofs green roof system in Asheville, North Carolina collects rainwater that lessens the use of municipal water in the apartment building below, promotes biodiversity, and reduces the urban heat island effect.

- Forward-thinking architects integrate greenery from the start. Natural materials, strategic daylighting, and living walls blur the line between inside and out, satisfying our innate need to connect with nature. Park Landing Apartment Homes installed a 20,000-square-foot green roof, meeting open-space codes for 70 units on just 2.2 acres.

This particular example perfectly highlights why Integrated Green Roofs Apartments is so captivating.

- For the past 15 years, the green roof projects I have worked with were mostly on large commercial facilities such as municipal buildings and hospitals. The residential structures I encountered were multi-tenant buildings like condos and apartments, with reports that the units fill faster, stay full longer, and lease or sell for more per unit if the residents have access to a green rooftop amenity space.

- When David Michaels moved to Chicago this year, he chose the Emme apartment building in part because of the third-floor green roof, which has a lawn, an area for grilling, fire pits and a 3,000-square-foot vegetable garden.