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The roofing industry is currently experiencing the swift emergence of new technologies and regulations while featuring intense competition that shows no signs of lessening any time soon which has resulted in a rapidly changing environment that’s being hampered by a severe skills shortage.  The industry faces the challenge of recruiting a massive 700,000 new workers to replace those who are retiring or moving on.  To add to the challenge, if the government wants to achieve its target of building a million new homes here in the UK by 2020, we’ll need to attract a further 120,000 workers into

As we recently reported, green roofs are on the increase here in the UK and we think we’ll be seeing many more of these “living roofs” in future.   Today we’re going to take a look at some of the benefits to building owners that can be achieved by installing a green roof.  To begin with, we’d like to point out that green roofs are nothing new – mankind has been covering buildings with all types of locally available vegetation since prehistoric times.  Buildings were constructed initially as a means of providing a rudime