Category: Green Roofs

Kansas City, Mo., to Spend $2.5 Billion to Cut Sewer Overflows

By CostBenefit on Jun 9, 2010 | In Water, Land + Water, Legal, Fines, Government Report, Floods, Green Roofs, Midwest, Regulatory Analysis, Contamination Cost, Costs and Benefits, Wastewater, Free Report at Time of Entry | Send feedback »

May 18, 2010) - The City of Kansas City, Mo., has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems, at a cost estimated to exceed $2.5 billion over 25 years, to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution le… more »

Green roofs offer mix of beauty and practicality

By CostBenefit on Jun 6, 2010 | In Green Roofs, Midwest, Newspaper/Mag/TV/Media Story, Costs and Benefits, Wastewater | Send feedback »

...While the low-maintenance rooftop gardens [that have sprouted on Quad-Cities buildings] offer plenty of practical advantages, capturing rain water and improving the energy efficiency of their buildings by insulating them ... they offer a lot of oppo… more »

Seoul to Build 122 Rooftop Gardens By Year-End

By CostBenefit on Jun 5, 2010 | In Asia, Green Roofs, Newspaper/Mag/TV/Media Story, Costs and Benefits | Send feedback »

More than 100 buildings in Seoul will be equipped with rooftop gardens by the end of this year.The Seoul city government announced on Thursday that it will earmark 11 billion won or about 8.3 million US dollars to build 52-thousand square meters of r… more »

Gardens That Grow on Walls

By CostBenefit on May 21, 2010 | In General, Air, U.S., New York City, Real Estate Construction Housing, Preservation & Open Space, Green Roofs, Newspaper/Mag/TV/Media Story, Canada, Costs and Benefits, Free Report at Time of Entry | Send feedback »

According to Kristina Shevory writing in the New York Times on May 5, 2010:Michael Riley ... was eager to move beyond potted plants in a way that hadn’t yet occurred to many others. ... By 2003 he had figured out how to grow a wall of plants inside his… more »

Potential for rainwater use in high-rise buildings in Australian cities

By CostBenefit on Oct 27, 2009 | In Water, Land + Water, Green Buildings, Real Estate Construction Housing, Academic Study/Journal Article, Green Roofs, Australia, New Zealand, Costs and Benefits, Wastewater | Send feedback »

Abstract: Rainwater is a traditional but underutilized water resource that has today had a resurgence due to the worldwide water crisis. This paper demonstrates the outcomes of research on the feasibility of rainwater use in high-rise residential envelop… more »
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