The green metal roof on the new Cabela’s store in Gainesville, Virginia, reflects the company’s lodge-inspired style. The store features high ceilings, raw exposed wood, stone masonry and more than 20 ...
Think about it. If you are remodeling or repairing your home, you probably aren't going to use the same building materials that you would have used 20 years ago. Insulation, windows and siding have ...
Over the last several years, the green-building movement has really taken off. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with “green” buildings, I am talking about buildings that are sustainable and ...
Forget shingles, gravel or asphalt. Instead, try a roofing material that you may need to mow. Across the Lower Hudson Valley, businesses and homeowners are installing what are understandably called ...
Green roofs color the skylines in Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto and other North American cities, but Hoosiers have to look high and low to find similar examples of the plant-filled building tops in ...
Asbury Woods' Nature Center, for the past two decades, has utilized a green roof, also known as a vegetative roof, made of living plants. Green roofs offer environmental benefits such as reducing ...
Green roofs are gaining acceptance in dozens of countries, joining other forms of green infrastructure that are being used to mitigate environmental problems of urban centers. For example, vegetated ...
Perched 18 floors above Madison Street is a rooftop oasis. Capping the M Street Apartments are beds of crimson and tan grasses, corrugated metal tubs that hold still-green tomatoes and basil, and a ...