The green roof design needs to accommodate adequate water retention suitable drainage structural loading and the depth of green roof growing substrate.
Intensive green roof build up.
Up to 50 lower growing medium depth.
8 to 20 per square foot.
One of our most innovative roofs bringing the benefits of an intensive green roof using up to 50 less build up height and weight.
Each layer of a zinco green roof build up is conceived to take over the relevant functions of the missing ground.
Your green roof design will depend on the roof your preferred green roof system as well as your desired build up and vegetation.
Extensive roofs are thin lightweight roof systems that typically have a planting media measuring 6 to 20 cm deep while heavier thicker green roofs are known as intensive roofs and their growing media ranges in thickness from 20 cm to 100 cm.
By allowing the designer to create a setting of an urban park on a building s roof an intensive green roof design comes with a unique value proposition.
Planting and waterproofing the build up heights and weights will be dependent upon the type of planting specified however as a rough guide 300 to 1500mm are the typical depths and weights could be in the region of 400kg to over a tonne per sqm.
Uniform irrigation through intergrated drip lines.
A bauder green roof combines the finished planting scheme and all its supportive components with a high quality and secure waterproofing system to give you the best results every time.
Green roofs can help reduce energy costsfor a building by acting as another layer of insulation between the inside and outside of the roof.
Extensive semi intensive and intensive green roofs.
Green roofs or living roofs as they are also known can be classified according to type of usage construction factors and maintenance requirements into three different types.
Automated water management through the bm 4 manager.
For a conventional roof.
Works on an incline of up to 5.
Semi intensive green.
Go green with a roof garden from bauder each green roof brings back a piece of nature and on some buildings a recreational space can be created for people to enjoy.
Extensive semi intensive and intensive green roofs.
Green roofs or living roofs as they are also known can be classified according to type of usage construction factors and maintenance requirements into three different types.
With that in mind the real variable in the weight is the depth of planting material.
15 to 50 per square foot.
The most important factor is to compensate for the lack of subsoil.
Zinco systems for extensive and intensive landscaped roofs.
An intensive green roof weight varies from 35 to beyond 100 pounds per square foot when dry.
A 2006 study by the university of michigan comparing costs of conventional and green roofs showed that on average installing a green roof costs about 22 00 sq.