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Green Infrastructure Consultancy
The Green Infrastructure Consultancy provides the following Services:
- Green roof, living wall and rain garden planning, design, specification and supervision
- Advice on biosolar roofs (combined green roof / PV arrays)
- Training for professionals
- Drafting of policy and guidance for authorities
- Green infrastructure audits and surveys with full GIS support Green Infrastructure strategies, action plans, project briefs
- Advice on taking action for biodiversity for companies Advice on integration, coordination and trans-disciplinary working
- Expert review and troubleshooting
- Creation of design and build teams for projects where a comprehensive approach is required
Dusty Gedge
The Urban Ecologist
Dusty is the co-founder and driving force behind livingroofs.org. The Dusty Gedge website is his personal site and provides more information on the man and his passions.
Green Roof Training
An Online Guide to Constructing Your Own Green Roof
The intention of the Small Scale DIY Green Roof Guide is take some of the mystery out of how to build a green roof. Many sites that sell green roof products can confuse people.
The authors were both getting numerous emails from people wanting to do a green roof. However, it was evident that the main stumbling block was a lack of confidence and confusion on what layer went precisely where and why?
So the online guide at Green Roof Training has been created to:
- Give confidence to prospective DIY green roofers
- Provide the principles behind why certain things are needed (or not) so choices can be made
- Simple step by step instructions
- Detailed construction illustrations
Featured Video
Wildflower Blanket at Museum Of London
The Green Infrastructure Consultancy’s retrofit of the Museum of London (MOL). The wildflower blanket on the courtyard roof at the MOL is blooming.
Green Infrastructure Roundup
GI Round up – Sponge is Urban green infrastructure
“Sponge’ is the theme again of this weeks round up. Sponge, as a concept, is a key concern for the city of Rotterdam. The term is more widely used in China, where the ‘Sponge’ city concepts is explored in an interesting post. Then we take the focus to green roofs – why aren’t there more?…