Green Roof Survery 2015

Buildings with a living roof are all the rage with the current focus on ecologically minded construction techniques.

Green roof survery 2015. Read the press release for the most recent green roof industry survey. Green roofs for healthy cities encourages municipalities regions states and provinces to adopt policies in support of green roofs and green walls in order to build healthier more sustainable and resilient communities. The uk green roof market survey 2016 consists of several stages. This figure is published in a report by the european federation of green roof and wall associations efb.

Our last guestimate was in 2015. The survey report also provides valuable market intelligence on green roof installation hot spots and tracks the size source and variety of green roofs that have been installed. 2016 green wall industry survey report providing information and analysis on the north american green wall market for calendar 2015. The survey results also point out that there were several new municipalities reporting green roof.

European green roof market efb 2015 until now we have relied upon a market guestimation. Originally european and historically planted with turf grasses green roofs are popular worldwide for reducing pollution and runoff and improving insulation among other environmental benefits. By shad ing the surfaces of a roof they reduce heat gain through it by nearly 100 percent. Green roofs contribute to energy and water saving goals both directly and indirectly.

Visit the green infrastructure store to purchase the most recent survey report. In the survey grhc also saw a 12 percent reduction in growth rate for green roofs in 2014. The north american green roof industry experienced an estimated 10 3 growth in 2016 over 2015. Strong policy support in cities like washington d c.

Green roofs present an opportunity to provide large areas of vegetation that could serve as bird habitat in urban areas. The toronto green roof by law of 2009 requiring green roofs on most new buildings has resulted in the permitting of more than 2 million square feet of green roofs. Toronto on july 13 2017 green roofs for healthy cities grhc the north american green roof and wall industry association is pleased to announce that the industry grew by double digits in 2016 according to its 2016 annual green roof industry survey released today. And toronto is driving market growth.

For the first time grhc corporate members reported that toronto ontario had the most square footage of green roofing. In addition a green roof s soil and vegetation layer absorbs and filters rain preventing it from quickly.