Financial District Banco de Santander, Madrid Maria José Barrio (E) Product manager green roofs, Madrid The Financial District Banco Santander is the largest green roof under construction worldwide. Extensive green roofs areas and intensive green roof gardens will be installed on more than 1 000 000 sq ft² (-> 500 000 sq ft² are already finished). Apart from the vast size of the green roof the planning and design of the landscaped areas is a real architectural "highlight".
	DaimlerChrysler, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Daniel Roehr (D) Freelance landscape architect, Berlin, profound experience in private gardens, green roofs and protection of historic buildings The DaimlerChrysler building at the "Potsdamer Platz" in Berlin is a striking example that landscaped roofs and rainwater storage and utilisation are no mutually exclusive technologies (cp. Klaus W. König, session 1). The combination of these two environment-friendly technologies in a modern and innovative architectural concept leads to various synergetic effects (-> urban climate, irrigation, recreational use of the intensive green roof garden) and saves more than 20 million litres of drinking water every year.
	Genzyme-Project, Cambridge, USA Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner (D) Famous, innovative architecture company (Stuttgart, Los Angeles), many national and international awards (e.g. Headquarters for the North German State Clearing Bank) The Genzyme Center was finished last year and is one of the greenest and most environmentally-responsible office buildings ever built in the United States. The environmental design of the building considers the following points: sustainable site development, water and energy-savings, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. The "living" vegetative roof is an integral component of the sustainable concept improving storm water management and the local climatic conditions.
	Church of Latter-day Saints Conference Center Susan K. Weiler (USA) Well-known American landscape architect (Olin Partnership), member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), lecturer at the Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania The Church of Jesus of Latter - Day Saints Conference Center (Salt Lake City, USA) is one of the outstanding green roof projects of the last years. The religious building received various prices (e.g. American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award and Sustainable Communities Green Roof Award) and attracts through its architecture and its multi-leveled green roof. The design incorporates elements of water, stone, trees and a roof garden of firs, pines and meadowland. The planting involved over a thousand volunteers that carried the native plants to the roof of the building.
	Psychiatric Hospital, Helsingör Bjarke Ingels/ Angela Beck-Møller, Denmark
	Efficient utilisation of limited urban space in the Netherlands Aart Veerman (NL) Commercial director of Van der Tol b.v. (landscaping company, 150 employee), president of the Dutch Green Roofs and Facades Association (DGS) Like in all other highly industrialised countries, urbanisation and the limited resources of building land are very important problems for urban planning departments in the Netherlands. At the same time the sealing and development of the landscape are reducing the living comfort of the urban population in a dramatic way. Green roofs are playing an important role in Aart Veerman's presentation about the multiple utilisation of urban space in the Netherlands as they can offer additional areas for recreation and leisure activities.
	The green roof market in Asia, Europe and North-America Tsuneo Tajima, Japan Ian Johnston , UK Ho Wan Weng , SGP Steve Skinner, USA Mariusz Zembrzuski, Poland