GREEN ROOF TILES by Toyota Roof Garden | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

GREEN ROOF TILES by Toyota Roof Garden | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World.

Installing a green roof on top of your home can be a real minefield – expensive, weight and drainage issues, difficult to maintain etc etc.

Toyota Roof Gardens (a subsidiary of the Prius-creating car company) have created a tile-based system that’s as easy as laying down carpet. The TM9 self-watering turf tiles connect directly to an irrigation system, so they self-water. At only 2 inches thick they are lightweight and don’t require any additional structural upgrading to your existing roof and rumored to cost $43 per tile. It is a modular, apparently  easy-to-install system that only needs to be cut once a year.

So how can we get hold of these in the UK?