Garden Roof Assembly

Garden roof assembly blue roof.

Garden roof assembly. The garden roof lawn assembly is considered a lightweight assembly but with a slightly deeper soil depth and is designed to support sod lawns as well as perennials. Extensive roofs are typically lightweight and can be installed over a variety of structures including metal roof decks. Garden roof assemblies for many years hydrotech has offered our typical garden roof assemblies to address a project s stormwater management needs. The landscape possibilities with an intensive garden roof assembly are virtually limitless.

Lawns have unique needs due to the foot traffic they experience. Intended for recreational sporting and leisure purposes they are often indistinguishable from natural gardens in appearance. Elevating hydrotech s garden roof assembly by placing it on permavoid a structural void component available exclusively through hydrotech integrates the many advantages of a vegetated roof with the high water detention capabilities of a blue roof. Varying depths of litetop media combined with gardendrain a water retention drainage component are used to address project specific stormwater management goals.

The garden roof assembly consists of proven components from the deck up including the following. From pavers to flashing to drains and more carlisle has everything you need to make your roof garden complete. An extensive garden roof assembly can be applied to flat roofs and sloping roofs with a pitch of up to 12 12 or 45 provided the appropriate measures are taken to cope with the shear forces and soil retention. Garden roof assembly replacing the impervious surface of a conventional roof with a green roof can help to substantially reduce storm water run off and restore the balance with nature in our urban centers.

Designers have the ability to create large lawn areas on rooftops using a garden roof lawn assembly. Unlike conventional earth covered structures garden roof assemblies are lightweight and can be installed on a wide variety of new and existing structures.