NEW TRENDS: green roofs and living walls

A recent trend in building design and renovation actually goes back to a much older tradition: making houses and other structures blend in with the landscape , even going so far as to building WITH landscape. In the spirit of "everything old is new again", green roofs and living walls return to a way of design and construction as old as the ancient viking culture.

Besides providing insulation, they both clean air, sequester carbon, reduce stormwater flows to reduce risk of flooding and improve stormwater runoff quality that otherwise pollute our rivers, lakes and oceans.