Rainwater Warehouse launches rainwater harvesting e-commerce site
January 24, 2012
Florida-based Rainwater Warehouse has launched a new website offering a complete range of rainwater harvesting systems and products. According to Principal, Jack Burden, Rainwater Warehouse provides a complete range of residential & commercial rainwater harvesting products. The company offers packaged solutions directly to green build developers, builders as well as homeowners. They also...
Tracked compact backhoe loader
JCB's latest compact backhoe loader is a tracked machine designed with skid steer ability. The 1CX T concept machine is highly compact, manoeuvrable and productive, combining the...
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Roof-mounted ladder racks
Knaack LLC recently announced improvements to the design of its roof-mounted ladder rack equipment used on commercial vans and minivans. The new design features enhance the...
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Bed redefiner attachment
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On green roofs
June 18, 2009
The concept of green roofs is not a new one.
Probably, the best and earliest known example of the concept would be the hanging gardens of Babylon, which were built somewhere around the 9th century, B.C. According to www.greenroofs.com, the inspiration for contemporary green roofs came from Iceland, where sod roofs and walls have been used for hundreds of years.The organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities states that “a green roof system is an...
