Green Roof People
The thermal benefits that green roofs provide may also have indirect benefits for people living or working within the building.
Green roof people. 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. However green roofs in many cases are meant to retain water over a longer period of time to slow stormwater runoff and to nourish the plants. This has not been researched but anecdotal evidence from germany in the late 1990s is of interest. Green roof development involves the creation of contained green space on top of a human made structure.
Green roofs for healthy cities grhc is the north american industry association for the green roof and wall sectors. This green space could be below at or above grade but in all cases it exists separate from the ground. Grhc develops and protects the market by increasing the awareness of the economic social and environmental benefits of green roofs green walls and other forms of living architecture through education advocacy professional development and celebrations of excellence. A roof is designed to protect the building and to shed precipitation.