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The Swedish Green Roof Handbook

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook - a new updated version The Swedish green roof handbook is a local adaptation of the knowledge that has been gathered over many years in Sweden, Germany and other parts of the world. The idea with our handbook has been to not only point out how to do but also try to explain how and ...

Scandinavian News: The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 & The Blue-Green Event

An update on past events and awards in Scandinavia The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 The Green Roof Award has been given out annually to the best green roof project in Scandinavia since the award's inception in 2000, as an initiative of The City of Malmö. The award is intended to inspire the Scandinavian green roof market toward excellence and ...

New reference-project in Budapest

New reference-project in Budapest The abundant brownfield lands of Budapest possess special potential in the green infrastructure politics of the Hungarian capital. The Millenáris Széllkapu Park completed in 2019 provides an excellent example for the development of these areas. The fact alone that one of the most valuable properties of the city has been used for urban green area development ...

ÖNORM LL1136 – New standard for vertical greening

Austrian standard for vertical greening (ÖNORM L1136) New standard for vertical greening is published "The aim of the new ÖNORM is to establish and maintain sustainable greening of façades all year round, taking into account seasons, geographical and climatic location as well as the greening objective" explains Ing. Stefan Brunnauer, VfB’s Head of Technical Committee for green walls. The standard ...

GReENERGY – Greening the cities

GReENERGY The cross-border project that brings green infrastructure and green energy in urban environments The GReENERGY project, entitled "Greening the cities - Development and promotion of energy efficiency and sustainable urban environment in the cities of Croatia-Serbia cross-border region", is a project funded by the European Union through the Interreg-IPA cross-border cooperation program Croatia-Serbia 2014-2020. The total value of the ...

BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020 published

BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020 published Over 7.2 million square metres of new green roofs in Germany in 2019! With the “BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020”, the German Association of Building Greening (Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. – BuGG) publishes for the first time an overview of the most important available facts and figures on green ...

Communicate Green Roof Business Rules

Communicate Green Roof Business Rules Construction in France is framed by norms that refer to so-called “current techniques”. When the revegetation of non-accessible roofs developed and intensified more than twenty years ago, the profession drafted professional rules for the design and realization of green terraces and greenroofs, validated by the competent authorities, to establish the recognition of these new techniques ...

Grooves, a study to assess the environmental benefits of green roofing

Grooves a study to assess the environmental benefits of green roofing Adivet (the French association of greenroofs and greenfacades) was one of the partners of the ARB (Regional Biodiversity Agency) of Ile-de-France which carried out a three-year study on 36 greenroofs. The study, called Grooves (for Green ROOfs Verified Ecosystem Services), ran from 2017 to 2019. The roofs concerned had ...

SoGreen Movement

EFB is part of the SoGreen movement a sector organization of Global Green "SoGreen unites the green world" Henrik Bos (president of ELCA) On 20 November 2020, Henrik Bos, president of the European Landscape Contractors Association (ELCA), has launched the SoGreen movement, a global stakeholder group that unites all green industries. ‘To start this international sector organization for the global ...

Green Roofs – A Vision for the Future

Green Roofs – A Vision for the Future Post-conference reflections Experts from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Austria or Italy presented contemporary trends at a September conference called Green Roofs – A Vision for the Future, organized by the Czech Green Roof Association under the Czech Landscape Gardening Association on September 10, 2020. Despite the fact that the conference was somewhat ...