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“Should I consider building a green roof ?”

I love a green roof, which is lucky… I live underneath one! They’re an architectural feature that perfectly answers many of the challenges of our time, be they aesthetic, ecological or environmental.

A growing roof softens the boundary between building and nature with plants, flowers and buzzing insects. As well as supporting wildlife, there have been other, less obvious benefits, too. The soil

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