Mexico City Building Green Roof

From a skyscraper turned wind turbine to a shopping complex inspired by termites discove the operating secrets of 18 of the greenest buildings around the world.

Mexico city building green roof.

On the central building of the infonavit national workers housing fund institute located in the guadalupe inn neighborhood a peculiar green lung was built. This year the investment is expected to rise by a third. Between the months of may 2017 and january 2018 at the infonavit headquarters building in mexico city our team redesigned and installed the new version of the green roof covering 2500 square meters composed of 149 species of mexican succulents agavaceae cacti and others and herbaceous foliage plants on a 5265 square meter rooftop. The hsbc s mexico city offices are equipped with environmentally friendly recycled furniture and the building is equipped with latin america s largest green roof and a water treatment plant construction review online 2010 in 2005 hsbc bank approved the transformation of five bank rooftops in the city of mexico as a pilot program and.

The next largest category of research is materials and resources. Green building research is being done by national laboratories private companies universities and industry. Last year mexico city spent almost 1million on the green roofs project bringing the total area of green roofs in hospitals schools and government buildings. In mexico there is also a growing and timely effervescence for green roofs.

While previously green building certification was reserved for high end corporate buildings now property developers financial institutions and green building professionals are coming together to create a new chapter of sustainability in a surprising space. Suffice it to say that the largest green roof in latin america is concentrated in mexico city. Toronto city hall s podium roof was renovated to include a 3 000 m 2 32 000 square feet rooftop garden the largest publicly accessible roof in the city. The green roof was opened to the public in june 2010.

More than 236 000 sf of green roofs adorn the environment about the cityscape as the government continues to invest in the concept. Completed in 2016 the tallest building in mexico city and the second tallest in all of mexico stands at 807 feet tall. Momentum is growing for buildings in mexico to be designed and certified green. The roofs which include well developed gardens.

According to a usgbc report published in 2006 over 70 percent of the green building research is focused on energy and atmosphere research.