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Mind the Edge: How to Select the Best Edging for Your Project
Selecting the proper edging technology for your green roof project takes more thought than you think, with a wide range of materials and functions available to choose from. Proper edging selection involves matching edging material and functionality with the design goals of your project.
How the Living Architecture Performance Tool Can Advance Social Equity
Living architecture also offers us an opportunity to right historical environmental injustices and meaningfully engage the communities in which these projects are built. We can leverage green roof and wall investments to achieve not just environmental and economic goals - but also social ones.
How the Living Architecture Performance Tool Can Make Green Roofs and Walls Part of a Climate Strategy
Living architecture offers immense promise as a part of a climate strategy, with green roofs and walls offering the ability to help mitigate against climate change and also adapt to its impacts.
Wind Design Process for Vegetated Roof Assemblies Using New Standards
Canadian Standards Association CSA A123.24 was the result of a multi-year research program led by the National Research Council Canada (NRC), in collaboration with the members of the North American green roof industry, to study the wind performance of green roofs.