GREEN ROOF PROJECT

The Green Roof Project has just finished a six month 'meanwhile project' to showcase a green roof Live Lab on the roof of Saxon Court in Milton Keynes. As part of the project we have trained three residents from the YMCA Milton Keynes in green roofing. As this part of the project draws to an end, as a legacy, we are relocating the green roof to the YMCA building. 
We want the 200+ residents (aged between 18 and 34) to enjoy all the benefits of having a living roof. This will include: growing vegetables, keeping bees, learning about biodiversity, and training in new green industries. Central Milton Keynes (CMK) currently has the equivalent of six full-size football pitches that could be retrofitted with a green roof. We hope that by using the YMCA to demonstrate green roof potential, we can persuade other local buildings to follow them and join the green roof revolution. The YMCA Milton Keynes is ideally situated to inspire visitors, with great views over CMK, and we hope to build a viewing area that will enable people to visualise the potential for retrofitting CMK buildings with green roofs.