Garden Roof Assembly

Extensive roofs are typically lightweight and can be installed over a variety of structures including metal roof decks.

Garden roof assembly.

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. Garden roof assemblies for many years hydrotech has offered our typical garden roof assemblies to address a project s stormwater management needs. Varying depths of litetop media combined with gardendrain a water retention drainage component are used to address project specific stormwater management goals. Designers have the ability to create large lawn areas on rooftops using a garden roof lawn assembly.

Garden roof assembly blue roof. 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. 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.

The garden roof assembly consists of proven components from the deck up including the following. Hydrotech s garden roof assemblies combine the proven performance of our monolithic membrane 6125 roofing waterproofing with proven green technology. Unlike conventional earth covered structures garden roof assemblies are lightweight and can be installed on a wide variety of new and existing structures. The landscape possibilities with an intensive garden roof assembly are virtually limitless.

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. Waterproofing roofing membrane insulation architectural pavers hardscape green roof components growing media and even the vegetation for extensive applications.