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Green roof of the Day - Green roof training HQ Green roof training HQ is now over twenty years old. It was constructed using the material from the footing. Just clay earth. This tends to mean it browns off quickly in the summertime. However it still surprises. I...
This green car port is in Essex. It has a lovely meadow green roof and also a straw-bale wall at the higher end of the building. Green and sustainable architecture in action. This is one of our favourite roofs. Like a Greek mountainside, even in November, the native...
Green roof of the Day 2 - Freight container with outdoor classroom A freight container is a perfect 'vehicle' to create a green roof. This small building acts as a classroom for a school in North London. Our sister company, Greenroofshelters, constructed this building...
Small scale green roof of the day is a shed green roof in England. Even a shed can be adapted to take a good green roof. Not just a thin layered sedum blanket but one which also includes wildflowers, sedums and grasses. Perfect for biodiversity and enriching the...
Pre-development hydrology? Well it took a visit from an expert from Colorado to explain this term to John and Dusty. Not that they hadn't been involved with the idea - just that we refer to the issue as 'humps and bumps'! Or topographic variety to be technical....
The Virtual Green Roof and Wall Summit will feature a talk by John and Dusty on small scale green roofs. The summit runs throughout the runs from April 6 through May 31, 2015. . https://youtu.be/jnGDzdn7fmM The Virtual Green roof Summit Trailer The trailer above...
Bees and wildflowers are what make us tick at green roof training. Although this video is not filmed on a small scale green roof, it does show the kind of wildflowers that flourish. These species are classics and should be considered in any planting scheme. The roof...
The latest video updates were filmed just before Xmas at John’s house in Essex. We had a few suggestions that needed to be addressed. Latest Video Updates - Short geotextile on edge detail The first one shows how to deal with the extra piece of geotextile along the...
John's wildflower recommendations for the new year cover some of his favourite green roof plants. With the skies grey and cold this should bring a little cheer and colour for January. John's wildflower recommendations 1 - Orange hawkweed or Fox and cubs. Not strictly...
Now this one hell of a view. A small scale green roof with an Alpine view in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Built on top of a garage in Vex, this is the home of the parents of a good friend of ours, Nathalie Baumann.. Nathalie has been researching and working on...
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