Calgary city hall pays $600,000 for a bee roof.

[Robin Goodfellow]

All other problems having been solved...

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Honeybees+swarm+city+hall+energy+cost+savings/10022539/story.html

I'd certainly be interested in seeing the math behind these "energy savings".

[BeeGuy]

$600k for a green roof.

They are expensive.

The bees would have cost a few hundred bucks.

Urban honey?

Yuck.

[rugatika]

MMMMMMM, this money spends sooooo easy.

[FCLightning]

MMMMMMM, this money spends sooooo easy.

Yeah - according to the article they spent $60,000 extra to get the "green" version of the roof.

[diamond k]

To be fair to the artice and the comment. The roofs needed replacing and the additional cost appears to 60,000 not $600,000.

[Scotty454]

To be fair to the artice and the comment. The roofs needed replacing and the additional cost appears to 60,000 not $600,000.

Yup.

At about $600,000, that costs 10 per cent more than a traditional roof replacement, but officials hope for energy cost savings in the long term from a roof of soil and grass, rather than asphalt.

...You guys just like to gripe, huh?

[rugatika]

Calgary city hall pays $600,000 for a bee roof.

I hate to think how much an "A" roof would have cost.

[Grizzly Adams]

To be fair to the artice and the comment. The roofs needed replacing and the additional cost appears to 60,000 not $600,000.

I guess the devil is in the life expectancy of B over A. :D

Grizz

[BeeGuy]

I guess the devil is in the life expectancy of B over A. :D

Grizz

The devil is in the details.

All that's required is reading the article and comprehending it.