Green Roofs

Roof Garden Jersey City, NJ Garden Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. is expanding on green roofs with a knowledgeable team of architects, gaining projects throughout the metropolitan area.

Green Roofs provide services that are eco-friendly and multi purpose, providing food, temperature control, and water conservation. These Architectural enhancements provide beauty and sunlit green spaces high above the noise and congestion of ground level traffic, enrich recreational opportunities, and process air born toxins while re-oxygenating the air. Green roofs provide great solution to impervious coverage ordinances and provide longer life to building membranes and materials.

Social Benefits:

Add beauty
Noise reduction
Stress reduction
Recreation
Improved productivity
Horticultural therapy
Decreased patient healing time
Social cohesion
Job creation
Opportunity to grow food

Environmental Benefits:

Reduce Greenhouse gas emissions
Blocking to telecommunications radiation
Reduction in combined sewer overflow
Reduction in flood incidence
Reduce ambient temperatures
Mitigate urban heat island effect
Reduction in airborne pollutants
Creation of habitat

Economic Benefits:

Reduction in energy use
Increase membrane life expectancy
Reduction in potable water use
Reduction in drain size
Extend life of infrastructure
Increase property value
Greenhouse emissions trade credits
Achieve regulatory objectives