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Could Green Roofing Help Protect Our Seas From Sewage Spills?
Following recent heavy rain, it has been reported that UK water companies have been compelled to discharge raw sewerage into our rivers and seas. News reports talk of the inconvenience and possible health hazards for humans wishing to swim. But of course, these...
Green Roof Maintenance Mythbusting
The GRO team regularly contribute mythbuster articles to Greenscape Magazine. Here’s an extract from our summer 2022 article which dispels the myth that extensive green roofs are self sufficient. Because extensive green roofs don’t have the same manicured appearance...
How To Choose A Green Roof Company
Green roofs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. From garden sheds and bus shelters to eco-homes, warehouses and retail outlets, its a joy (and a relief) to see that more and more buildings are sporting living roofs. But a badly designed or badly built green roof...
New E-Learning Course Unravels The Mysteries Of Green Roofing
Have you ever wished that you had a better understanding of green roofs? Perhaps you are an architect needing more details so that you can bring biodiversity net gain into your projects? Or maybe you are a roofer who’d like to extend your services to installing green...
New report highlights how green and blue roofs can help mitigate climate change
A new report from the University of Southampton Energy and Climate Change Division of the School of Engineering, commissioned by the NFRC Charitable Trust, highlights some key steps that specifiers, building owners and home owners can take to use the roof to help...
GRO Code of Best Practice Launch
We were delighted to see so many trade associates, members and future members join us for the GRO Code of Best Practice Launch Meeting on the 10th June 2021. Following the success of World Green Roof Day 2021, the momentum carried us through to an exciting and...
NFRC Roof Top Podcast with Dusty Gedge
Ahead of World Green Roof Day on The NFRC, Roof Top Podcast interviewed green roof expert and former UK Roofing Award judge, Dusty Gedge. Dusty is the president of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and founder of Livingroofs.org, and is a...
GRO green roof installations, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Members of the Green Roof Organisation (GRO) have worked together to install green roofs on 20 play structures at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which is on a mission to encourage people, after a year spent largely indoors, to reconnect with the incredible nature...
BALI launches fresh new brand
The British Association of Landscape Industries has unveiled its new look ahead of its 50th year in business in 2022, marking the start of a new chapter in the Trade Association’s prestigious history. Spearheading the brand is the Association’s fresh, contemporary new...