26   Artículos

 
en línea
Marek Chabada, Pavol Durica and Peter Juras    
Current building envelope greening systems are not just areas covered with vegetation. Today?s systems can maximise the functional contribution of vegetation to a building?s performance and become part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy. The impact ... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Zaloa Azkorra-Larrinaga, Naiara Romero-Antón, Koldobika Martin-Escudero and Gontzal Lopez-Ruiz    
Green roofs are artificial ecosystems that provide a nature-based solution to environmental problems such as climate change and the urban heat island effect by absorbing solar radiation and helping to alleviate urban environmental, economic, and social p... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Behrouz Pirouz, Stefania Anna Palermo, Gianfranco Becciu, Umberto Sanfilippo, Hana Javadi Nejad, Patrizia Piro and Michele Turco    
Climate change is a significant problem that many countries are currently facing, and green roofs (GRs) are one of the suitable choices to confront it and decrease its impacts. The advantages of GRs are numerous, such as stormwater management, thermal ne... ver más
Revista: Hydrology    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Ming Fai Chow, Muhammad Fadhlullah Abu Bakar, Jee Khai Wong and Lloyd Ling    
Extensive green roof is one of the sustainable urban stormwater management alternatives to manage and mitigate the urban surface runoff. In order to implement green roofs more effectively, suitable plant species and substrate components for tropical clim... ver más
Revista: Water    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Giacomo Bagarella, Filippo Busato, Francesco Castellotti, Andrea D?Ascanio, Renato Lazzarin, Fabio Minchio, Daniele Nardotto, Marco Noro and Lorenzo Zamboni    
At the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) of the University of Padova (Italy), the research team led by Prof. Renato Lazzarin, formed by the authors, worked during the first fifteen years of the millennium on different topics focused on susta... ver más
Revista: Applied Sciences    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Approximately 10 km2 of new green roofs are built in Germany every year. About 85% of these are Extensive Green Roofs (EGR). An EGR with several research features was installed on new buildings belonging to the University of Applied Sciences N... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Birgitte Gisvold Johannessen, Tone Merete Muthanna and Bent Christen Braskerud    
Climate change coupled with increasing urbanization has made extensive green roofs, both for retrofitting and new developments, an attractive way to bring nature back to cities, while managing stormwater. This study has investigated extensive green roof ... ver más
Revista: Water    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Stuart Alan Walters and Karen Stoelzle Midden    
The practice of producing vegetables on green roofs has been gaining momentum in recent years as a method to facilitate agricultural sustainability in urban areas. Rooftop gardens are becoming an important part of the recent rejuvenation of urban agricul... ver más
Revista: Agriculture    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Shruti Bhairappanavar, Rui Liu and Reid Coffman    
To maintain the navigational depth, 1.15 million cubic meters (1.5 million cubic yards) of sediment is dredged out from the federal harbors every year from Lake Erie, Ohio Coast. Treating this huge amount of dredged material is a major challenge due to t... ver más
Revista: Infrastructures    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Agnieszka Bus and Anna Baryla    
Green roofs are an effective stormwater measure due to high water retention capacity and the ability of delaying stormwater runoff. However, low importance is still given to the pollutant leaching potential of substrates used in green roof construction. ... ver más
Revista: Water    Formato: Electrónico

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