Sentences with phrase «kind of green roof»

Before you begin, you need to determine what kind of green roof you want, there are three main types:

The 50 - year life - cycle cost analysis found that even the most inexpensive kind of green roof (with no public access and consisting of only sedum, or prairie grass) costs $ 7 per square foot more than black roofs over 50 years, while white roofs save $ 2 per square foot compared to black roofs.

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Green roofs are kind of a new industry and people don't really know about them.

Or perhaps build some kind of «green» home with roses on top of the roof, and the ceiling is steel and are all glass from floor up to the roof (even the roof is glass), solar powered... Blah, blah, blah.

Perennial roofs are semi-intensive green roofs with a media depth of 6 - 8 inches and may need irrigation, depending on the regional climate and the kind of plants used.

From sand banks on green roofs for ground - dwelling bees to a 5 star hotel for all kinds of insects, TreeHugger has featured plenty of creative solutions for artificial habitat that don't involve either leaving your garden in a mess or putting up one of those folksy but rather plain bee boxes you see in garden centers and advertised online.

1) What kind of species can benefit from green roofs?

«Amerigrow is exactly the kind of long - standing, respected business we want to partner with, and we're happy to have a blender to serve the growing green roof industry from the Florida Keys to Orlando.»