AG. TD Centre’s ‘living roof’ like a farm in the city. This week I stood on the freshly greened roof of the Toronto-Dominion Centre banking pavilion, surrounded by a field of creek sedge grass.
Bounded on all sides by steel and concrete skyscrapers, the oasis was surreal and thrilling. It felt strangely illicit – as if a tract of farmland had been floated down on the city’s financial district. The transformation of heat-absorbing asphalt roof-scapes into energy-saving canvases of greenery is being embraced not only by businesses, but university and condominium developers.
Living roofs are also increasingly being promoted as therapeutic tools for health-care facilities. There are courtyards at CAMH on Queen Street West, an extensive fragrant garden at the CNIB, and the Royal Victoria Health Centre in Barrie has just installed nine green roofs. The TD Centre, one of the urban masterworks by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with John B. What might Mies have said about the greening of his rooftop? Toronto Becomes First City To Mandate Green Roofs. Summer is just around the corner, and for those who live in big cities, that means spring warmth will soon give way to searing heat.
Green roofs can help regulate city temperatures, giving people, and the electrical grid, a much needed break. Toronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we're not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun's rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable indoor temperatures as a result. Toronto's new legislation will require all residential, commercial and institutional buildings over 2,000 square meters to have between 20 and 60 percent living roofs. Live Green Toronto. The Eco-Roof Incentive Program promotes the installation of green and cool roofs on Toronto’s existing buildings and new buildings not subject to the Green Roof By-law.
Applications are currently being accepted for green and cool roof projects and will be reviewed on a monthly basis, subject to funding availability. The City of Toronto launched the Eco-Roof Incentive Program in 2009 to support the uptake of eco-roofs by building owners, make buildings more sustainable and promote the creation of green jobs. A Rooftop Garden is a Fun and Exciting Way to Container Garden. Rooftop Garden Advantages They cool and shade buildings, which reduces the 'heat island' effect of a city.
Retains and utilizes rainwater, provides wildlife habitat, and enhances the roof membrane life. Has an aesthetic appeal creating a private haven. Removes heavy metals such as: cadmium, copper, and lead from runoff. Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and improves the air quality by trapping and absorbing nitrous oxides, volatile organic compounds, and airborne particulate matter. Container Gardening The first option for rooftop gardening is container gardening . In rooftop container gardening, few to no modifications are made to the existing roof structure; containers – anything from plastic swimming pools to recycled-wood planters – are placed on a rooftop and filled with the desired soil type and plants.
One problem you might face here, is the soil in rooftop containers might thaw on a warm winter day. Lightweight Rooftop Gardening Systems. September 11, 2009 Kuraray Co., Ltd.
(The Kuraray Group) Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka City, President: Osamu Asaba) announces the release of a lightweight, thin-layer rooftop gardening and corrugated plate roof-greening system on September 16, 2009. This system was developed jointly and will be sold by the eight member companies of the Thin-Layer Rooftop Gardening Research Group. It features reduced load on buildings and superior low-maintenance capabilities. Limitations on the amount of soil used in order to reduce the load on buildings have been an issue for conventional rooftop gardening systems. . * Surface: silver-colored, polyethylene mesh; bottom: white-colored polyester and polyethylene cloth stitched into a pouch shape Examples of Thin-Layer Rooftop Gardening and Corrugated Plate Roof-Greening System Constructions Key Characteristics of the Thin-Layer Rooftop Gardening and Corrugated Plate Roof-Greening System 1.
Sales route Sales targets Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd.