Sustainability and Green Design in Roofing
Ducker Worldwide offers the roofing industry proprietary market insight, market trend and analysis, strategic consulting, and custom intelligence. Companies serving and operating within the roofing industry recognize the need to assess the market as well as understand the changes and demands of the market. Sustainability and green design is one of the largest growing trends driving change in the roofing market. Ducker Worldwide partners with its clients to achieve performance goals and pursue growth opportunities through comprehensive market intelligence, critical thinking and strategic market planning.
Garden Roofing Benefits
Garden roofing systems provide many eco-friendly benefits including:
- Additional insulation to help reduce energy requirements
- Better storm water management
- Lessening the urban "heat island" effect
- Reduction of noise, carbon dioxide and pollutants in the surrounding atmosphere.
Garden Roofing Maintenance
There are two types of garden roofing systems; intensive and extensive. Intensive roofs designed for use by occupants typically contain a wide variety of aesthetically pleasing plant life. While intensive systems may be more attractive to the eye, they generally require more maintenance than extensive systems including regular irrigation, feeding and trimming. Depending on the type of vegetation, an intensive garden roof can require deeper soil contributing to cost as well as weight and stress on the buildings structural support.
Dissimilarly, extensive systems make use of extremely hardy, drought resistant perennial plant species that require little maintenance besides sporadic weeding and fertilizing. From soil composition to choice of vegetation, extensive roofs are designed to survive local climates with minimal care. Consequently they require less soil depth than intensive systems and they demand less additional structural support.
Garden Roofing Costs
Despite their many benefits, garden roofs can be expensive. The up front cost of a garden roof can vary drastically; which includes materials, preparation work and installation with varying maintenance costs.
Garden Roofing Research
Ducker Worldwide's industry research and consulting services within the roofing industry and garden roofing systems include:
- Market and segment definitions such as size, growth, market drivers, and key trends
- Channel overview including distribution channels/segments, size and growth
- Competitive overview including major players, sales and marketing strategies, market shares, branding and competitive threats
- Product and technology development for garden and other green roofing materials
- Investment analysis
For more information on Ducker Worlwide's research and strategic solutions within the roofing industry and green roofing systems please contact one our industry experts at 1-877-538-2537 or email us at info@ducker.com.
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