While the Covid-19 crisis has forced millions of students worldwide to work from home, a team of dedicated essential workers brave cold temperatures and nearly gale force winds to install the StormCap™ green roof system to ensure completion, and meet summer occupancy deadlines of the new Cape Cod Technical High School.

At the start of the work day, the local fire department took the temperature of the construction crew. Workers wore face masks, maintained health and safety measures and kept a safe distance throughout the day to complete the green roof to help make this building more resilient to climate change in the future and better manage large rain storms.

In this video, Stormwater Capture Co’s Rodney Chaney, shows part of the process of the installation. Here you see engineered growing medium blown up on the 25,000 square foot green roof. The lightweight StormCap™ system is technological innovation. It is a 4″ profile that weighs only 20 lbs/sf saturated and can retain 1.59 gal/sf of stormwater, handling a 2.54″ rainstorm. Its superior components includes Knauf Insulation’s Urbanscape® needled mineral hydro blanket made of virgin rock fibre. This mineral wool has no binders and therefore has superior retention of 90% of water by volume and withstands freeze/thaw cycles.

The StormCap green roof offers a basket of environmental benefits to the building, its occupants and the wider community. Not only does it protect the roofing membrane and doubles its lifespan, it helps save energy, keeps the building cooler, and offer students a close-up lesson on green infrastructure and sustainable design.

Stormwater Capture Co supplies a range of systems from lightweight and biodiverse to detention green roofs that help replace or reduce cisterns. Customizable pre-vegetated sedum blankets and base layers can be cut to fit any shape and design.​

For more info, or an estimate for your project, contact Rodney at 855-786-7626 or send drawings to rodney@stormwatercaptureco.com.

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StormCap™ Green Roof Installation at Cape Cod Tech Keeps Construction on Track

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