Also called green roofs, garden roofs, eco-roofs and living roofs, vegetative roofs offer many benefits to the building owner and surrounding community. Studies worldwide have clearly shown that vegetative roofs make a positive impact on their local environment that ripples through the larger eco and economic systems they affect.

• Clean the air of particulate matter
• Create habitat areas for indigenous wildlife
• Provide aesthetic appeal to surrounding locations
• Reduce the urban heat island effect prevalent in many metropolitan areas
• Control storm water run-off, absorbing it and then releasing it slowly

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