Spring 2026: The Business Case Issue

This issue explores multiple values provided by green roofs, and acknowledges that the perception of value is often the result of individual preferences. Building owners for example, may be motivated by rooftop amenity space and the resulting improvements in the marketability and value of a building. Most developers are focused more narrowly on meeting regulatory requirements for stormwater retention, a major market driver as storms and floods intensify. While individual, ‘value’ is also public in nature. Public policy underpins decision making in support of the common good provided by green roofs. Valuable community benefits include improving human health and equity, supporting biodiversity, fighting climate change and extreme heat, generating local employment, reducing flood severity and improving air quality. In some cases, green roofs are employed to provide places for rest and healing in hospitals, improve worker creativity and productivity, increase solar panel efficiency, grow food, beauty and even facilitate learning. When designers, policymakers, and insurance companies recognize the many aspects of green roof value, the business case for transforming the world's rooftops becomes insurmountable. Let’s get going! 

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The Living Architecture Monitor is a publication by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, with a mission to increase awareness of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of green roofs, green walls and other forms of living architecture. The Living Architecture Monitor also hosts the Journal of Living Architecture (JLIV), a peer reviewed, scientific journal published by the Green Infrastructure Foundation (GIF).

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