Friends and Supporters

ASESCUVE

Asociación Española de Cubiertas Verdes y Ajardinamientos Verticales (Spanish Association of Green Roofs and Vertical Landscaping).

The challenges that the future of construction holds for us revolve around energy saving and sustainability. We want the Spanish Association of Green Roofs and Vertical Landscaping (ASESCUVE) to be joined by all the professionals active in the field of green roofs and façades: installers, manufacturers, architects, engineers and students.

The world green infrastructure network (WGIN)

Since 2009, the non-for-profit umbrella association WGIN has expanded globally to now represent 22 National Associations and has held ten World Green Infrastructure Congresses (WGIC). WGIN has established supportive working research committees and has an active enthusiastic board of directors representing eleven nations. Primary driver is passion and a strong united belief that our world can be developed progressively with innovation however there needs to be a balance; a respect and a synergy with NATURE. The transition from ‘grey to green infrastructure’ for building and urban design is what drives our efforts as a collaborative global network because “vegetation makes it possible”!

AIPH – International Association of Horticultural Producers

AIPH, the International Association of Horticultural Producers and the world’s champion for the power of plants, has, since 1948, united horticultural producers in an international community that thrives to this day. AIPH strives to reignite and uphold an appreciation of plants that we believe is a basic human instinct. Through our Green City Programme, we lead global thinking on the successful integration of nature into the built environment, promote the essential role of plants in creating vibrant urban areas, and aim to develop an international standard for green cities as well as being a focal point for green city best practice and a source of expertise.

 H2020 project metabuilding

METABUILDING is an innovation ecosystem.
The members of METABUILDING bring opportunities and innovation to the built environment sector. METABUILDING’s focus is connecting stakeholders (small-medium enterprise’s to public bodies and large companies) from different sectors in order to create an integrated value chain.

The METABUILDING platform is the digital backbone.
The METABUILDING platform consists of several digital tools and services that help SME’s and other stakeholders engage in successful innovation. In this platform you will find services and information that will assist you in finding existing innovative technologies ready to deployed or project partners seeking collaboration on new exciting projects.

 H2020 project consortium proGIreg

ProGIreg uses nature for urban regeneration with and for citizens! The project is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme and will run from June 2018 until 2023. ProGIreg stands for ‘productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration’: nature for renewal. As front-runner cities, Dortmund (Germany), Turin (Italy), Zagreb (Croatia) and Ningbo (China) host Living Labs in post-industrial districts where nature-based solutions are developed, tested and implemented. Global cities working together: Cascais (Portugal), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Piraeus (Greece) and Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) closely follow the progress in the Living Labs and engage in city-to-city exchange to replicate the nature-based solutions. EFB is very proud to engage itself as partner of the project.

H2020 project Nature4Cities

Nature4Cities is a H2020 EU-funded project, creating a comprehensive reference Platform for Nature Based Solutions (NBS), offering technical solutions, methods and tools to empower urban planning decision making. This will help addressing the contemporary environmental, social and economic challenges that face European Cities. We will bring Nature back into innovation, planning and their implementation. This new governance implies new collaborative models driven by citizens, researchers, policy makers, and industry leaders, utilizing co-creation processes and sharing of Best Practice. Thus, the goal for implementation Projects is a positive balance between economic, environmental and societal benefits and costs. EFB is very proud to be able to supply Nature4Cities project on demand with pan-European expertise und greening buildings.

GRÜNSTATTGRAU R&I GmbH

The Austrian Innovation Laboratory for greening cities is part of the Austrian green roof and walls association VfB since early 2017. The network of currently over 350 stakeholders from business, science to city authorities stands for innovation in green smart city development, implementation and co-creation of greening buildings. The instruments of the living laboratory include MUGLI, a mobile demonstrator for NBS and renewable energy systems on tour through the Austrian cities and the interactive online platform offering various tools and services www.gruenstattgrau.at in order to spread knowledge speed up NBS and GI mainstreaming.

Livingroofs.org

Livingroofs.org is an independent organisation set up by Dusty Gedge in 2002 to promote green roofs and living walls in urban areas in the UK and around the world. The organisation has been a member of the EFB from 2006 until 2020 as the UK representative. In 2020 the Green Roof Orgnaisation (gro) was founded and became offical EFB member. Dusty Gedge is the current president of the EFB, an office he has held since 2008.

Livingroofs.org is a rich resource providing news, analysis and in-depth research into the latest innovations in green roof and  wall technology and developments in the industry, from contractors and suppliers to large-scale developers.