Green Roof Systems in the N.Y. Metropolitan Area

Green Roof Systems

Green Roof Services offers customers the most comprehensive line of green roofing systems
available today. Ranging from roof gardens to fully recyclable assemblies, Roof Services’ green roof offerings include:

• Garden Roofs
• Solar Roofs Integrating Photovoltaic Arrays
• Energy Star Qualified White Reflective Roofs
• Environmentally Friendly VOC Free Roofs
• Fully Recyclable Metal & Single-Ply Roofs
• Long Lasting 30 Year Warranted Roofs
(the greenest roof is the one you don’t replace)

A green roof helps the environment in many ways. By replacing the typical, black asphalt roof that gets very hot on a sunny day, a green roof helps cool a building and makes the air conditioner work less, saving energy. The local, indigenous species planted on a roof will remove carbon from the atmosphere and release oxygen. Rain water will mostly be collected and absorbed by the roof vegetation providing valuable rain water storm mangement controls.

Storm water runoff carrying oil, gasoline and chemical by-products are often the cause of pollution to rivers, streams and bays preventing the enjoyment to the beach and boating communitites when high bacteria counts close our waters.

A Brooklyn condo board began with a leaky roof. Understanding that it needed to be replaced to be watertight, they asked themselves “What else should our roof do?” They answered by deciding that they wanted a roof that was not only watertight but that also provided a beautiful community space. This objective lead them to Roof Services and our green roof partner firm, Greensulate. Together we installed a new TPO roof system with a 20 year warranty and an semi-intensive garden roof which features paths and decks set among a rolling garden.


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