Green Roof Design Details

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Green roof design details.

Low nutrients and lightweight substrates are a good combination for a green roof and its vegetation. Please contact us for support in determining which details are most pertinent to your individual project. A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do. The key to any good green roof project is a good waterproofing membrane.

There are many types of waterproofing membrane. With over 10 years of excellence roofmeadow formerly roofscapes is the north american leader in green roofs. A green roof is a green space that is created by adding various layers of plants and a growing medium to the top portion of a traditional roofing system. The green roof is composed of a mix of sedums and hardy herbs with a sweeping crescent of small grasses.

Roofmeadow green roof system design and installation. It replaces the ecology the new house sits upon thereby replacing the habitat that a house takes away. This is especially true of intensive green roofs which can have soil that is two feet deep or more. It starts with a waterproofing membrane which is commonly followed by a root barrier layer an optional layer of insulation drainage layer filter fabric growing medium and finally vegetation.

One important item to design for is an increased structural load. The green roof design needs to accommodate adequate water retention suitable drainage structural loading and the depth of green roof growing substrate. The types of plants that you will have will depend on the type of green roof you are installing. Despite the 10 story elevation and center city location the green roof has attracted a variety of wildlife over the years.

And to ensure the appropriate green roof assembly relative to the membrane chosen is provided it is important to understand how they work and how they are installed. Used over a whole roof a green roof will be the single overriding design influence on the house as well as impacting on the construction right down to the foundations. Architectural details photo by tommy hileman. There are a number of things to consider when designing for a green roof.

Swarthmore college david kemp hall. Note that it is not like a traditional roof garden in which planting is done in free standing containers as well as planters that are placed on an easy to access roof terrace.