A round up Green Roof News for 14/10/10
Green roofs on containers, Rockford, Olympia, Oklahoma and Madison, Wisconsin
Almost the green roof news today GreenRoofShelters our latest sponsor has featured on a number of sites. The excellent website Vegitecture poses a number of interesting questions.
Why is the system inventive? Well considering that the observer didn't publish the link to website and the website is missing one important page, we can explain. To put a green roof on a container that has the varied depth and varied ecological character required some innovation. Load was an issue and the system allows more than the standard 100mm or 4inches to be loaded onto the system. It infact can be loaded with a depth up to at least 200mm or 8inches without having any structural impact on the the container structure beneath.
More from Vegitecture check out the blog
Native planting on green roof in North Illinois, Olympia City Hall and the National Weather Centre, Olklahoma
Rockford, Northern Illionois has a green roof which features native planting. Of course we had livingroofs.org have also been keen on native planting and the fact this is one of hte largest green roofs in Illinois with plants derived from the prairies of the state 'rocks our boat'. Native prairie plants include pink prairie smoke, asters and blue lobelia.
Whilst the greening of the City Hall in Olympia, WA doesn't go down the native route totally at least all the sedums have been grown within the state. The roof is designed to hold 70 percent of stormwater on the roof during a worst-case scenario – 11 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
The National Weather Centre in Olklahoma is up for a Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Award. We are happy to report this as one of the instigators is an old friend of Livingroofs.org. Professor R. Coffman is one of the instigators of the experimental project, which will look at how native wldflowers and grasses perform on a roof in the state. They are also looking at a number of other variables such as cooling etc. Yet again native plants are being investigated and encourage.
