Green Roof Systems

A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure

By: Susan k. Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth

Ednote: With the Obama stimulus package emphasizing the effort to weatherize existing buildings this book couldn’t come at a better time. Reduced heat load, stormwater mitigation and reduced Urban heat island effect are all a benefit of green (cool) roofs. A designer’s one stop resource to green roofs that merges architecture and landscape. The book offers substantive and technical information on living green roof and landscapes over structure. It goes beyond a mere overview of the green roof movement by providing reliable advice on building ecologically practical, accessible, and useful open spaces over structures. From planning and collaboration to successfully handling the technical aspects of green roof systems, components, and applications this will become your single source desk reference on the topic, the book:

• Explains the environmental, social, and economic benefits of turning the underutilized surfaces of roofs into multifunctional systems.

• Features a comprehensive, system-based approach to understanding, designing, building , and maintaining green roofs in an urban environment.

• Examines the ins-and-outs of green roofs from a technical perspective.

• Offers design and technical material alongside of issues surrounding urban design and planning, engineering, architectural and landscape architectural considerations, and stormwater management.

With the exception of the black and white only pictures and the half page technical detail that could have been full page and the critique that this book could have been more coffee table-book size this is a great tool for anybody in the design world. The cost would have probably been prohibitive had my recommendations for size and color been implemented, but then this is just one man’s thinking.

ISBN:047-167-4958 Hardback $75.00