A bare roof rarely inspires anyone. Cover that same surface with grasses, flowers, and winding paths, and it becomes one of the most striking parts of a building. Living roofs are changing the way ...

One of the main roles of any roof is to keep water out, and that’s why flat roofs are prone to problems. Because they have no slope, they can’t effectively discharge rainfall or snow melt. Wherever ...

Fieldston Power helps apartment buildings install solar panels that they otherwise couldn’t afford—and helps lower electric ...

An FIU professor has a plan to get rid of the blue tarps that inevitably appear on rooftops after a hurricane. Arindam Gan Chowdhury has patented a concrete roofing system that aims to replace the ...

Years ago, I walked onto the roof of the Palo Alto Research Center. The nondescript beige building in Silicon Valley, known for groundbreaking technology, is the birthplace of the mouse, laser printer ...