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City Council to Vote on Green Roof Study
The City of Austin's green ambitions are well known, and another step towards making Austin the green city may soon be realized.
This Thursday, the Austin City Council will consider funding (up to $10,000) work between the University of Texas and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to further research on vegetated rooftops and how they are affected by Austin's sporadic rainfall. This collaboration between UT and the Wildflower Center is the first such study on the impact of green roofs in a Central Texas-like climate.
"[Vegetated roofs] are good at cooling, they're good at cleaning water, they're good at holding back storm water," Mark Simmons, a researcher at the Wildflower Center, told News 8 Austin. He added, "Globally, there is so little research done in warm weather systems. We've attracted a lot of attention from around the world just because we're looking at green roofs in hot climates."
Successful results could see more roofs going green in and around Austin.
