Roofmeadow

08/23/2018

Roofmeadow was selected by TD Bank for a 3-minute feature on small business innovation. Check it out!

Starting a small business is hard enough, but when you run into stiff competition, you may have to switch up your game plan. Melissa Muroff, president of Roofmeadow and Laura Hansplant, director of design at Roofmeadow discuss how they design green spaces for rooftops and how the company needed to a...

08/20/2018

Our President, Melissa Muroff, was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer over the weekend! The story was about Sustainable Business Network's important new report "Local Procurement: An Evaluation of Barriers and Solutions"

Many obstacles stand in the way of small business getting work from the city and its major employers, including complex and not well-publicized procurement processes, says a new report by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia.

03/12/2018

Our Laura Hansplant was featured in today's Globe and Mail!

Director of design at Philadelphia-based Roofmeadow discusses the challenges she has faced personally and professionally integrating sustainable landscapes into urban areas

02/27/2018

Check it out: West Philadelphia's Urban Thinkscape was profiled by the Smithsonian Magazine! Roofmeadow served as the Landscape Architect for this project, and our construction partner Roofmeadow Services Inc. put it together. Brilliant collaborators at Studio Ludo made it great and Sahar Coston-Hardy captured the stunning photos. Teamwork makes it fun!

To encourage playful learning, Urban Thinkspace and other projects put miniature playgrounds along the paths kids travel

10/04/2017

Check out this cool grocery store that sells produce from its rooftop farm!

The grocery chain aims to answer demand for organic products while reinforcing its local ties.

05/24/2017

Native and adapted flowering perennials and grasses, which were established from seed on the Temple Architecture Bldg green roof, looking good on this late May day ...

04/21/2017

It was an honor to receive the Business & Industry Award at the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin’s 35th Recognition Dinner with our partners at Brandywine Realty Trust!

It was an honor to receive the Business & Industry Award at the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin’s (WRA) 35th Recognition Dinner! Congratulations to our partners at Roofmeadow!

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04/10/2017

Two Roofmeadow projects made the secret gardens, parks, and green space list! http://bit.ly/2nZQRZa Where is your favorite secret garden?

Welcome to Curbed's map of secret gardens, parks, and green spaces throughout Philly. For the purposes of our map, the word "secret" applies to everything from tiny neighborhood gardens to some larger parks that are under-appreciated.

02/20/2017

Good people - hear ye hear ye Roofmeadow is looking for an experienced but experimental civil engineer! I love working here and so will our future colleague - spread the word... Dog-lovers a plus! :)

Roofmeadow green roof system design and installation. With over 10 years of excellence, Roofmeadow (formerly Roofscapes) is the North American leader in green roofs.

12/22/2016

Happy Holidays, Season's Greeting, Click and Enjoy -- http://bit.ly/2ikliGa

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12/21/2016

One more reason to plant your roof (as if we needed another).

The elevated gardens may help foster urban biodiversity—without taking up valuable real estate

12/15/2016

EXCEEDING INTENT: A Precedent Library is now available!

The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia’s (SBN) GSI Partners and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC), with team of leading industry professionals, have developed the following precedent library of exemplary GSI designs, systems, and approaches to inform the approval of more green and innovative stormwater management projects in Philadelphia. With greater understanding of how GSI performs, performance metrics and calculation methods can be updated, designs can continue to improve, and there can be more comfort and confidence from the development community that GSI is an effective and affordable way to meet city regulations.

The precedent library is a collection of highly effective GSI projects from urban areas across the country that have been selected for their ability to demonstrate the dynamic performance capacity of different types and classes of GSI practices, and their application at a range of project types and scales. Case studies discuss the degree to which these projects are exceeding their intents - environmentally, economically, and/or socially. This collection of case studies is complimented by peer-reviewed research that further defends the degree to which GSI performs.

This library will be used to support the successful implementation of Green City, Clean Waters and to increase the industry’s collective knowledge on the performance of GSI.

View the Precedent Library here:

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