Green Roofs on Pethouses A New Trend Emerges

 Encounters a climate emergency never experienced before, the green roof is becoming more and more consolidated as a trend in world architecture, as it offers several social, economic, and environmental advantages in cities. Similar to the examples of such pioneering cities as Copenhagen, cities worldwide are changing grey roofs to green in the belief that in this way they shift toward a more sustainable and healthy future. Hence, it has become a repetitive process in projects which aim at being in line with the demands of the modern urban city. This is basically the concept of a green roof, i.e.

Covering the rooftop of a building with plant life and even incorporating urban farming technologies, food production, water recycling and solar energy. The system comprises a number of layers such as the slab, waterproofing membranes, the drainage layer, the plant substrate and liquid membranes at some key locations where water may tend to stagnate.

What Is a Green Roof?

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Thus, along with aesthetic motives, it is popular also because of the multiple advantages in functional and sustainability terms. The plant substrate is more like a buffer since it is on the rooftops or terraces which are open and exposed to the elements whereby they get more heated during summer and cooling down at winter. Therefore, the building will involve fewer efforts in climate control, thus saving a lot of energy and eliminating climate change effects. Adjusting heat island and raising thermal comfort of users through picking up of solar radiations and discharging coolness produced because of the stored water in the substrate, the system provides the benefit of cooling island.

At the same time, green roofs enhance biodiversity, as plant growth permits entry of living organisms that result in preservation of nature in the environment affected by humans. Moreover, the vegetation cover enables the control of water, storage and conservation of water since the vegetation cover has the ability to collect and filter rain water and the effects of a possible flood can be reduced.

Why More Developers Are Building Green Roofs

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This manner in which the green roofs encourage the sustainable growth of cities through an adequate and systematic resolution of the environmental economic and social challenges of the cities. They do not only make a useless territory significantly valuable, add more beauty to the inhabitable environments, and inspire people to spend their leisure time and hold social events. Nevertheless, the functioning of the system is based on the essential element, which is not letting in all the water into the building. Keeping this in mind, Soprema has got Sopranature brand that provides vegetated systems.

That guarantee full waterproofing. In its products, Soprema proposes different green roofs waterproofing and insulation solutions, stops excessive water with SBS asphalt membrane (Modified elastomer asphalt), or synthetic ones, TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) or PVC (polyvinyl chloride)). On the one hand, asphalt membranes give extreme performance and durability. One of them is the Sopralene Flam Jardin.

Key Benefits of Green Roofs

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The Sopralene Flam 180 membrane has the same components, and it is suitable in two-layer systems and has strong resistance to perforation or tear as well as low temperatures. In the meantime, Drentex protect eco garden plus is polyethylene nodules membrane high density whose geotextile filters, keeping the soil and draining free water.

With Sopralene Flam Jardin and 180 they provide a convenient and exclusive system which guarantees the waterproofing of the substrate and solve the conditions of the building optimally. Synthetic systems are perfect when one needs a lightweight system besides providing the same performance and durability as the other types. By doing that, these kinds of membranes besides.

Durability and Resistance of Soprema Waterproofing Solutions

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The ease of installation are durable and with high ability of resistance to root attack and penetration, to compressions, punctures and to fungi and to heat hence, more life of the building. This is why Soprema waterproofing solutions have already been used in numerous projects (not only of residential purpose) aimed at bringing nature to the user, i.e. bringing the user closer to nature, to say a more sophisticated phrase, and, in addition, at implementing an efficient system in the perspective of sustainability. Of them, the VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre deserves to be mentioned.

Whose green roof creates the right balance between architecture and landscape that hence transforms the building into a global symbol of sustainable design. In a similar case, the Kew Garden Hills Library and the Jean Moulin High school apply green roofs in fostering well being, whereas the latter is similar to the landscape. Similar to such instances, numerous structures across the globe are having using green roofs bringing back to the residents the nature that they had lost out with the intrusive city developments. It is hence a basic premise that ecosystems form a good resource within our communities.