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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 ...

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Regulation for the allocation of incentives

REGULATION FOR THE ALLOCATION OF INCENTIVES - SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS Rehabilitate and improve the energy and water performance of buildings Rehabilitating and making buildings more energy efficient enhances the achievement of multiple objectives, namely the reduction of the country's energy bill and the country's energy dependence, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improving levels of comfort and ...

BiodiverCities – Novi Sad

BiodiverCities Project The National Green Roof Association, Serbia will be a representative of the City of Novi Sad during the European project- BiodiverCities. The BiodiverCities project has invited ten cities to participate in citizen engagement activities that improve urban nature. The cities are Leiden, Palma, Valongo, Stavanger, Vilnius, Sofia, Maribor, Novi Sad, Palermo and Regalbuto. Also Oslo, Varese and Lisbon are committed to closely follow the project. ...

Green Market Report Austria

Austrian Green Market Report FACTS AND FIGURES Green roofs and walls industry at a glance 09/2020 Climate change adaption and urban green roof and wall strategies The Alpine Region is facing severe climate change impacts. Extended heat periods with over 25°C will raise up to 120 days per year. Heavy rain and stormwater events occur more frequently. 2 out of ...

EFB won the IFLA Award 2019

IFLA Europe Award 2019 goes to European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB)! It is the aim of IFLA Europe to recognise the work of exceptional people who believe that our way of perceiving and understanding the world – derived from our profession – could contribute to its development. This year we presented our Award to European Federation of Green ...

ADIVET on excursion in Vienna

ADIVET on excursion in Vienna On the green roofs and facades of the Austrian capital.... Vienna is a decidedly "green" city, half of whose surface area is made up of green spaces, not only thanks to parks and gardens but also to green roofs and facades. This first study tour proposed by Adivet (the French Association of Green Roofs and ...

Czech market report about green roofs

The area of green roofs increased again in 2018 Press release of the Czech Green Roof Association under the Czech Landscape Gardening Association (SZÚZ) Brno, August 23, 2019: Green Roofs 2018 - Market Report As in previous years, this year the Czech Green Roof Association (Sekce Zelené střechy) under the Czech Landscape Gardening Association (Svaz zakládání a údržby zeleně) also ...