Here is Santa Clara County’s first large-scale attempt at a green-building “vegetated roof.” You can also call it a living roof complete with soil and plants that absorb storm water. Silicon Valley, the world’s technology capital’s first newfangled “living roof” will start rising next year on. It claimed a headline in the news as it is an affordable-housing project too. Surprisingly it is a subsidized single-room-occupancy project with rents as low as $375.
This project rightfully illustrates that even in a high-cost market like Silicon Valley, affordable-housing and green-building can go hand in hand. The developer’s varying green technologies and strategies aren’t just environment-friendly and provide healthy-living, but also help keep long-term operating costs down!
Via: Biz Journals
