Green Roof Benefits
Green Roof Benefits. The main benefits of having a green roof are that it is a sound barrier, an insulator. Sedum is a carbon catcher there by cleaning and cooling the air around it through a process called evapotranspiration. Also urban concrete surfaces absorb and reflect heat back.Green roofs do not there by cooling the local environment. Green roofs also help with storm water run off. A green roofs hold around sixty percent of rain water that falls on it and then realises the excess water slowly. Green roofs are an attractive place for butterflies and bees and certain times of the year not to mention the micro-world that flourish in the substrate. And if that isn't enough a green roof will double the life of your existing roof as it will protect from all the elements all year round