The magazine gb&d, which covers green building and design, recently featured an article on the Daniels Faculty's Greet Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory (or GRIT Lab). "Toronto is the perfect testing ground for green room systems," wrote Jeff Link. The article described the GRIT lab's multidisciplinary team and long term research goals, which include an investigation into how green roofs mitigate urban heat island effect, aid storm water retention, and work in concert with photovoltaic solar panels.

"Green roofs cannot be conceived in the same category as other building products, like bricks and mortar — they are a living system that is part of a larger hydro-ecological system," said Principle Investigator Liat Margolis in a Q & A with the magazine. "Because we live in cities that expand rapidly and that have lost enormous areas of porous surfaces, we have to either protect ourselves from weather systems or harness their energy for constructive purposes."

Visit gb&d's website for the full article.