Smart Green Roofs

This green space could be below at or above grade but in all cases it exists separate from the ground.

Smart green roofs.

The green roof consists of more than 50 pre planted modules containing a mixture of california native grassland species. A modular green roof is built in sections sometimes as small as 10x20 inches in a tray or block so that they re easy to handle and assemble yet in time the plants will root into adjacent trays and make a uniform mat. The smart sustainable management and revolutionary technology green roof project will be constructed atop the central irrigation control shed at the smartlandscape site on the uc davis campus. Green roofs are unique typically urban environments they are remote and do not receive a great deal of maintenance.

Green roofs can provide a wide range of public and private benefits and have been successfully installed in countries around the world. A smart combination blue and green whilst the water management engineer will be focused on how much water is stored and released a blue green roof provides wider benefits. Of course a blue roof on its own is positive yet it provides only one solution. Green roof development involves the creation of contained green space on top of a human made structure.

They experience extremes of temperature and water availability and are designed to fulfill a number of functions primarily stormwater mitigation and heat load reduction.