Yonge Street — an online weekly magazine that focuses on innovation, development, neighbourhoods, and community involvement in Toronto — has published an article on the GRIT Lab (Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory) at the Daniels Faculty.

Established in 2010 by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the GRIT Lab is a 2,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility that includes 33 green roof test beds, a weather station, and 264 sensors connected to over 5,000 linear feet of wiring. Data on soil moisture, runoff, temperature, rainfall, humidity, solar, and wind is collected every two seconds. The lab sits atop of the Daniels Faculty building at 230 College, and is the only one of its kind testing green roofs in an urban environment in Canada.

"We're hoping this work will potentially influence or augment the green roof standard and green roof monitoring in the City of Toronto, and that it might also affect what industry is actually producing and promoting," Assistant Professor Liat Margolis tells Yonge Street writer Katia Snukal.

Read the full article on Yonge Street's website.