Green Roof Park Shelter Retrofit

American hydrotech inc chicago won a 2005 green roofs for healthy cities green roof award of excellence in the intensive institutional category for the schwab rehabilitation hospital in chicago.

Green roof park shelter retrofit. Pro advice get a structural engineer to tell you what your existing roof needs to support the weight of a green roof. Green roof shelters ltd brings together some of the foremost experts in green roofs planted for biodiversity designing habitat creation and low maintenance native planting alongside designers experienced in producing buildings structures and retrofit products that enhance our environment. Bus shelters offer an ideal surface for greening providing an attractive green space in our concrete dominated urban streets and offering much needed shade for. Green roofs are suitable for retrofit or redevelopment projects as well as new buildings and can be installed on small garages or larger industrial commercial and municipal buildings.

Cool green roofs for the city s bus shelters was an initiative carried out by groundwork sheffield and sheffield s green roof forum as part of a wider programme aimed at addressing the lack of green roofs across south yorkshire. They effectively use the natural functions of plants to filter water and treat air in urban and suburban landscapes. You might have to add more joists strengthen existing ones or add bracing. It may be possible to retrofit green roofs on certain buildings without planning consent although the planning authority should be consulted if there is any doubt.

A therapeutic park and garden sit atop 10 000 square feet of rooftop space. Whether you have been trying to find the right outdoor shelter or picnic pavilion we re the company you can trust for the unique durable and attractive quality steel structures that create the right outdoor environment for you. See more ideas about green roof house colors house exterior. First green roofs at sydney australia with a timber frame structure and another one in rio de janeiro brazil by using block work construction.

The main economic benefit of a green roof is increased roof life expectancy due to the protection it provides to the membrane says griswold. As with all roofs maintenance is required and therefore access must be considered. For the retrofitting the green roofs wilkinson et al. Our designs include large and mini shelters kiosks metal pergolas and gazebos available in various sizes and.

In certain areas of the country installing a green roof can also allot you extra building or parking space because it offsets your area of impermeable pavement says griswold. The city of chicago s department of the environment assisted in the project.