GREEN ROOF RESEARCH
Urban Agriculture
At CSU Spur, green roof systems and an expansive greenhouse atop the Terra and Hydro buildings show how urban spaces can be used for plant and food production. The green roof serves as a research and demonstration facility to build on previous CSU research to investigate water use, food production, agrivoltaics, plant-pollinator interactions, seeding, and other emergent industry questions.
Why Spur?
Because of the City of Denver’s Green Building Ordinance, which specifically identifies the use of green roofs as an environmental solution, the location of CSU Spur is ideal for green roof research, outreach and innovation.
Very little research worldwide has been evaluated in semiarid regions like the Mountain West and the impact of research at Spur will be far reaching.
Green Roof and Urban Agriculture Research
Professor Jennifer Bousselot and a team of graduate research students manage green roof and urban agriculture research projects in both Denver and Fort Collins. The team’s work is consistently advanceing horticultural science, contributing to numerous published studies and leading to discoveries each year.
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