•  Green Roof Maintenance & Refurb Package

•  Brown BioDiverse Roof Maintenance & Nurture Package

A great deal of the Commercial Green Roofs installed across the country are being left without any aftercare.  If you have a Green Roof that hasn’t had the proper care and attention required we can bring it back to health with a series of Living Roof Maintenance & Nurture packages.

Just quote this code in correspondence GRWN2012.

London green roofs and surrounding area will enjoy 20% (please apply for details) off the current cost.

Please pass this GRWN2012 to anyone applying to have a great roof in the next few months.

NB//  all our systems are guaranteed and comply to FLL Green Roof guidelines

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Our offer extends to the Green roof waterproof/root-proof membrane and insulation beneath the green roof system as well.

price example:  £3000 green roof will now cost £2400 installed, that is 20% off!!

OFFER FINISHES  END of FEBRUARY’s LEAP YEAR

Happy New year to you!

Like all laws, it’s complicated, but new building permit applications for residential, commercial, and institutional developments must now have green roofs. New industrial developments (as of April 30, 2012) will soon have to be green, also.

The law states a minimum roof size, so it doesn’t apply to gardening sheds. And the larger the roof, the greater the percentage of it will have to be green. People can opt out, but they have to pay toward a fund.

Efforts are already paying off: Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is reporting that the law has resulted in more than 1.2 million square feet of new green space planned on new commercial, institutional, and multi-unit residential developments. It will also keep enough rainwater runoff out of the lakes and rivers to fill fifty Olympic sized swimming pools. It’s reduced the heat island effect and led to an annual energy savings of over 1.5 million KWH for building owners.

And there are still other benefits: opportunities for parks and recreational areas. Birds and bees do well with these changes.

We only use fully researched and developed green roof technologies (and not make shift builders drainage boards that have no place as part of a green roof system, that we see under failed systems).  We also only adhere to the FLL  (German standard) and GRO Code (UK) root-zone depths and practices which enables us to roll out lifetime guarantees for the green roof system and vegetation performance.

Please enquire for the full details.

We offer short or long term maintenance and nurture packages for every type of Green Roof, from simple Sedum to large podium expanses with lawns, flower beds, trees and parks.

If you have a green roof installed by others which is now looking worse for wear or failed completely..  We can help!

Because we are preferred partner installers for most of the green roof systems on the market we are uniquely positioned to be able to offer Green Roof Maintenance to all green roof owners whether it was installed by us or not.

We can also roll out our life time green roof guarantee if the system has been installed correctly in the first place and just needs “recovery and nurture” or we can put right all the wrongs in order to get it up to the standard required for our Green Roof Guarantee.

If you added green roof layers to only one third of London’s existing flat roofs it is estimated this will have the equivalent benefit to the proposed tunnel.

•  A fraction of the cost.

•  A fraction of the upheaval of the construction.

•  A fraction of the time to achieve a solution.

And on top of all that..

•  better City Cooling

•  cleaner environment

•  better ecology for birds and insect

•  better fuel costs for the building owners or residents

•  cooler buildings in summer

•  warmer in winter

The tunnel is unlikely to completely prevent flooding and pollution overspill into the Thames.  It might be part of the answer.  Once you green the flat roofs of London you might just find you only need a small tunnel with less expense.  You might find that Greening 2 thirds of London is the way forward.

Surely green roofs for London is cheapest most brilliant way to go before you start boring into the planet?

http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/fulham-and-hammersmith-news/local-fulham-and-hammersmith-news/2011/08/05/us-super-sewer-warnings-rejected-by-thames-water-82029-29184720/

Ideal for small roof gardens, a garden office, a house extension or any dull on-looked asphalted roof surface. We have recently revised all our small green roof prices to inspire home owners to join the urban greening revolution.

The company has reviewed various statistics relating to green roofs and found the benefits include:

• insulating buildings and cutting energy costs. Recent studies show green roofs save two litres of fuel oil/m² per year.
• cutting the rate of heat absorption through the roof of a building by up to 84%, reducing its temperature and the need for cooling. This leads to further energy savings.
• lasting between 2.5 to 3.5 times longer than roofs made from standard materials, reducing roof repair and replacement costs.
• reducing urban pollution levels. 1m² of grass roof can remove 0.2kg of airborne particulates every year. They can also store chemicals and pollutants falling in the rain that would otherwise go directly into drainage systems.
• helping companies and organisations manage excess water in storms by retaining 50-60% of the total annual runoff volume in an average development, and alleviate flooding issues by retaining 90-100% of the critical first hour of heavy rainfall. This reduces drainage costs.
• providing excellent habitation areas for insects, birds and other wildlife, increasing local ecology/biodiversity.
• contributing towards government-set sustainability targets (e.g. BREEAM assessments).

Vicky Ward, ecological consultant at Atmos, said: “Green roofs have long been popular with companies that want to better the environment, and go a long way to achieving sustainability targets. Thanks to developing technology the payback periods are becoming much shorter, making green roofs a sound financial investment. We urge anyone developing new properties or renovating existing ones to consider them.”

source:  Green Build News http://www.greenbuildnews.co.uk/

They’ve tried simplify methods to avoid confusion, not sure it’s worked to that end.

Here’s the link:

http://www.nfrc.co.uk/upload/GRO%20CODE%202011.pdf

Don’t worry we will demystify it for you.