Green roofs | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/06/2019

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00:02:46 1 Environmental benefits
00:02:57 1.1 Thermal reduction and energy conservation
00:06:08 1.2 Water management
00:08:42 1.3 Ecological benefits
00:10:03 1.4 Carbon sequestration
00:12:39 1.5 Other
00:13:22 2 Costs and financial benefits
00:17:39 3 Disadvantages
00:21:33 4 Types
00:24:59 5 History
00:29:37 6 Brown roofs
00:32:08 7 ASLA Award Green Roof Projects
00:35:01 8 Examples by country
00:35:12 8.1 Australia
00:37:47 8.2 Canada
00:40:31 8.3 Costa Rica
00:41:06 8.4 Egypt
00:42:20 8.5 Finland
00:43:19 8.6 France
00:44:01 8.7 Germany
00:50:06 8.8 Greece
00:52:42 8.9 Iceland
00:53:00 8.10 Switzerland
00:54:22 8.11 Sweden
00:56:16 8.12 United Kingdom
00:59:22 8.13 United States
01:06:49 9 See also



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A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is debated. Rooftop ponds are another form of green roofs which are used to treat greywater. Vegetation, soil, drainage layer, roof barrier and irrigation system constitute green roof.Green roofs serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, increasing benevolence and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by providing a more aesthetically pleasing landscape, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. Green roofs are suitable for retrofit or redevelopment projects as well as new buildings and can be installed on small garages or larger industrial, commercial and municipal buildings. They effectively utilize the natural functions of plants to filter water and treat air in urban and suburban landscapes. There are two types of green roof: intensive roofs, which are thicker, with a minimum depth of 12.8 cm (5.0 in), and can support a wider variety of plants but are heavier and require more maintenance, and extensive roofs, which are shallow, ranging in depth from 2 cm (0.79 in) to 12.7 cm (5.0 in), lighter than intensive green roofs, and require minimal maintenance.The term green roof may also be used to indicate roofs that use some form of green technology, such as a cool roof, a roof with solar thermal collectors or photovoltaic panels. Green roofs are also referred to as eco-roofs, oikosteges, vegetated roofs, living roofs, greenroofs and VCPH (Horizontal Vegetated Complex Partitions)