Green Roof System Plays an Important Roal in Environmental Protection

2015-08-11

One of the popular international definition of green roof is everything from planting techniques to gas, its coverage is not just a roof planted include balconies, rooftops and balconies, the top of the underground garage, the wall, overpasses, and all with the ground, the soil relative to the green space of the connection of all types of buildings and structure. People under the ecological conditions on the building roof structure characteristics, loads and roof, the growth habit of the construction of green landscape with suitable plant material, through a certain skill, at the top of the building and other special space.

To save the land and to open up the urban space, Green roof use an effective way of "packaging" of buildings and urban building. Green art collusion particular note is the role of green roof in the protection of the urban environment which can not be ignored. According to scientific measurements, a city roofs utilize green then the carbon dioxide in the city compared with no green is lower 85%. Japan has always attached importance to the greening and has a world class environmental protection and greening facilities and Germany have reached a very high level in the building on the roof garden.  In addition to increasing the balcony to provide a green area, Building design, also the highest level of the roof in Japan was built in the "open", the entire roof together into one, to make it into a vast high altitude venues. Residents can grow flowers  and plant with their own preferences grass; in Germany further update the buildings built ladder or pyramid residential group. When people arranged from the various forms of roof garden, they can seen from a far the Banbi Huashan close look also deemed to gorgeous canyon, overlooking the like a giant carpet of colorful, beautiful, refreshing.  In Russia, major cities, Australia, Italy, Switzerland and other countries also have a varied and beautiful scenery and a roof garden.

in the early 1960s, The domestic roof garden has a small amount of practice , at that time, some cities like Chengdu, Chongqing and others use the factory floor, office buildings, warehouse roof platform to carry out agricultural and sideline production, the cultivation of fruits and vegetables. The 1970s, China's first large roof garden built in the 10 story roof of Guagnzhou Dongfang Hotel, which is one of the earliest Western synchronization built in accordance with the unified planning the design and construction of the roof garden, gardening methods, to create a local ethnic characteristics of the space environment. In the 1983The west side of  Beijing Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in the main building built in northern China's first large-scale open-air roof garden on the lower roof. Since then China has successively built Shanghai Huating Hotel roof garden, indoor atrium garden of Guanghzhou White Swan Hotel, Beijing Capital Hotel roof garden, Chongqing Spring outside floor, opened the prelude of a construction roof garden in China.

All in all, the green roof has already developed for decades, both theoretical support and technical support are ripe for many developed countries. But for china, our research and practice on the green roof is just in its infancy. At present, the increasing deterioration of the living environment, building up a lot of green space etc., all this has a serious impact on the living environment of mankind, the role of the green roof is particularly important at this time.

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