Kevin Songer, green roof designer for MetroVerde, blogger with Living Green Roofs, and Greenroofs.com contributing editor speaks about his years of experience on living roofs. Designing green roofs for coastal areas presents many challenges. Actual case studies, including a recent hospital green roof design on Bermuda will be discussed. This video examines issues and solutions to using native plants for salt and wind impacted shoreline rooftop gardens.
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Dave talks with Rolf Schilling about how to insulate your roof with native plants.
For a friend, we created a green roof with almost all the same plants 8 years ago and it still rocks today.
NO. Insects like flies, mosquitoes, and pests like carpenter ants and termites all breed in water or rotten wood, not soil and plants. Gardens and plants does not = bugs or bug problems. Your roof is likely to be residence to wasps and hornets if you DON'T have a green roof, because wasps and hornets are look for hot eaves as places to nest. Green roofs help keep things cool.
NO, It does NOT cause water retention. Listen to the video. There is a waterproof layer, and the medium for the plants is designed to drain well. Mosquitoes need open water to breed, not just moisture. Mosquitoes do not breed in soil or on plants. Soil and plants do not cause insect problems. Termites and carpenter ants like rotten wood, not soil. There is basically no risk of insect pests from gardens or green roofs. Please do not spread hysterical nonsense.
What happens when it rains?
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Doesn't this cause water retention which subsequently become the breeding grounds for mosquitoes that gives you diseases like Encephalitis, Dengue, West Nile Fever?
@Timothy2035 yes, but there are lots of layers that are designed to protect your home/building
Great video ! This is the future
wouldn't a green roof be inviting insects to take up residence on your roof?
Green roofs are changing the way architects design buildings
inspiring and it couldn't be at a better time! What else is a roof good for anyway?? 🙂
love it..
where was it I could find a lift over green roof friendly plants?
Indeed and perfect!
GREAT WORK!!!