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Included in the addition and renovation to the Bayview Glen School is this living roof. Not only does it provide respite from the urban surroundings, it provides students an opportunity to interact with the environment.

These living roofs are incorporated into the architecture of Centennial College’s Ashtonbee Campus renewal. Incorporating innovative engineering and sustainability features, this building achieved LEED Gold status.

Divided into three section and covering a significant portion of the school’s roof, this living roof provides energy savings while enhancing the learning environment of the school’s students by bringing nature closer to the classroom.

Designed to help Station 106 integrate into its surrounding environment, this green roof provides energy savings to the building and contributed to its winning the Award of Excellence in the 2013 Urban Design Awards.

Goodes Hall, home of Queen’s University School of Business, blends an old Victorian schoolhouse with contemporary architecture; these three living roofs, building on the centuries’ old tradition of vegetated roofs, contributes to the fusion of old and new.

Installed alongside rooftop terraces, this extensive living roof provides a space for faculty and staff to enjoy the outdoors.  As one of our maintenance sites, it is also an example of a green roof that has successfully incorporated biodiversity principles into its maintenance program.  Maintained as a meadow grassland, the green roof features logs and branches […]

The sloped living roof on this City of Waterloo property not only helps the building meet its energy usage goals, but also highlights the versatility of green roof systems.

The semi-intensive living roof installed at the Queensway Health Centre is one aspect of Trillium Health Partners green conservation measures for the Centre, and will help the building meet it energy usage targets through improving building installation, consequently reducing the need for heat in winter and air conditioning in summer.

Part of a building rehabilitation program designed to repair the building’s structural issues, this living roof, with its membrane leak detection grid that detects and locates roofing leaks, has not only contributed to the resolution of the structural issues, but has also lengthened the lifespan of the roof by 20 to 25 years while at […]

In 2015, the Institute attained LEED Silver certification for environmental sustainability; a designation to which this living roof, spread over five separate roof areas and part of the building’s energy conservation measures, played a role.