Green Roof Project - Macalester College
Green Roof Project - Macalester College Green Roof Project - Macalester College
What Is a Green Roof? • A planted space built on a manmade structure •Many economic, environmental and social benefits • A.K.A: Rooftop garden, eco-roof, or vegetated roof The Green Institute
Green Roofing Systems • Intensive: higher up front costs, more maintenance costs, requires more structural support, public access, trees, animals, biodiversity • Extensive: less growing medium, light weight, self maintaining, prairie grasses • Containerized: Macalester’s project, inexpensive, very light weight, low growing sedum plants, limited root spread, low maintenance
- Page 1: Macalester College’s First Green
- Page 5 and 6: Benefits of a Green Roof • Slows
- Page 7 and 8: • Working with Facilities Managem
- Page 9 and 10: Step 2: Fill trays with soil (Rosen
- Page 11 and 12: Our Project: Installation Pussy Toe
- Page 13 and 14: Before Our Project: Installation Af
- Page 15 and 16: Insulation Value: •R-Value •The
- Page 17 and 18: Aloha Landscaping, Roger Grothe Com
- Page 19 and 20: On Campus Partners Mark Dickinson,
- Page 21: References (cont.) Kiers, Haven. Ar
What Is a <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Roof</strong>?<br />
• A planted space<br />
built on a manmade<br />
structure<br />
•Many economic,<br />
environmental<br />
and social<br />
benefits<br />
• A.K.A: <strong>Roof</strong>top<br />
garden, eco-roof,<br />
or vegetated roof<br />
The <strong>Green</strong> Institute
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