Intensive Green Roof Build Up

Green roofs or living roofs as they are also known can be classified according to type of usage construction factors and maintenance requirements into three different types.

Intensive green roof build up.

Automated water management through the bm 4 manager. 15 to 50 per square foot. Go green with a roof garden from bauder each green roof brings back a piece of nature and on some buildings a recreational space can be created for people to enjoy. By allowing the designer to create a setting of an urban park on a building s roof an intensive green roof design comes with a unique value proposition.

Green roofs can help reduce energy costsfor a building by acting as another layer of insulation between the inside and outside of the roof. An intensive green roof weight varies from 35 to beyond 100 pounds per square foot when dry. Uniform irrigation through intergrated drip lines. Works on an incline of up to 5.

Zinco systems for extensive and intensive landscaped roofs. The green roof design needs to accommodate adequate water retention suitable drainage structural loading and the depth of green roof growing substrate. The most important factor is to compensate for the lack of subsoil. With that in mind the real variable in the weight is the depth of planting material.

Extensive semi intensive and intensive green roofs. Planting and waterproofing the build up heights and weights will be dependent upon the type of planting specified however as a rough guide 300 to 1500mm are the typical depths and weights could be in the region of 400kg to over a tonne per sqm. A 2006 study by the university of michigan comparing costs of conventional and green roofs showed that on average installing a green roof costs about 22 00 sq. Intensive green roof build ups over roofs and podiums are designed to be trafficked and should only be installed on flat roofs.

Extensive semi intensive and intensive green roofs. This is most noticeable in intensive green roofs since there is a thicker and more consistent layer of soil which provides a higher insulating value. Extensive roofs are thin lightweight roof systems that typically have a planting media measuring 6 to 20 cm deep while heavier thicker green roofs are known as intensive roofs and their growing media ranges in thickness from 20 cm to 100 cm. Semi intensive green.

One of our most innovative roofs bringing the benefits of an intensive green roof using up to 50 less build up height and weight. For a conventional roof. Your green roof design will depend on the roof your preferred green roof system as well as your desired build up and vegetation. Each layer of a zinco green roof build up is conceived to take over the relevant functions of the missing ground.

Up to 50 lower growing medium depth. 8 to 20 per square foot.