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“Well written and without doubt or question organized, with a wealth of descriptive photos throughout.”
(SciTech Book News )
“Anyone involved with and mesmerized in green roofs would be well advised to acquire this important reference.”
(Viveka Neveln American Gardener )
About the AuthorEdmund C. Snodgrass started the initial green roof nursery in the United States and has collaborated on green roof exploration with colleges and universities. A fifth-generation farmer and nurseryman, he is owner and president of Emory Knoll Farms Inc. and Green Roof Plants in Street, Maryland, specializing in plants and horticultural consulting for green roofs.
He is coauthor, with Linda McIntyre, of The Green Roof Manual: A Professional Guide to Design, Installation, and Maintenance. He likewise wrote, with his wife, Lucie Snodgrass, Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide.
Writer and editor Linda McIntyre specializes in ecology, urbanism, and design. She has served as a staff writer and contributing editor for Landscape Architecture magazine and has worked in law and public policy, focusing on environmental issues, transportation, and global trade. She lives in Washington DC and New York City. She studied landscape design, horticulture, Japanese-language conversation, and cooking after earning a BA in English and a law degree.
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Green roofs — the extreme in sustainable building exercises — proceed to generate enormous interest and a lively interest among architects, landscape designers, and urban planners. Increasingly rigorous stormwater regulatings and the appeal of LEED-related projects have also boosted the popularity and desirability of green roofs. Those who want to build green roofs, however, have few resources to guide them. Until now, no book has taken a comprehensive look at how to efficaciously adjust green-roof engineering science to the variable and uttermost North American climate, and how to design projects that will function and endure as with great success as those in Germany, Switzerland, and other European countries.
This book fills the gap by supplying an overview of exercises and proficiencies that have been effective in North America. The writers offer choices with regards to structure, function, horticulture, and logistics, as well as surveys of actual projects and analyses of why they have or haven’t succeeded. Approachable and reader-friendly, the manual distinctly explains how these complex schemes function and how to plan and carry out projects with great success from conception through construction and maintenance. Ideally suitable to pros (including architects, landscape architects, engineers, and designers) and their clients, it brings together key lessons from leaders in the field. Numerous photographs spotlight the range of design possiblenesses and show green roofs both for the duration of construction and at respective stages of maturity.
At last, those seeking basic selective information when it comes to how to design and build green roofs have a concise, authorized guide to this stimulating new technology.
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1 of 1 persons found the following review helpful.
 A Green Roof Reference Must-Have
By Allen Bush
Think of The Green Roof Manual like the Joy of Cooking. The classic cookbook took the kitchen in a new direction. The Green Roof Manual: A Professional Guide to Design, Installation and Maintenance has the same potential for designers, roofing contractors, engineers and urban planners who are taking into account green roofs. Authors Edmund Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre have brought their natural abilities and qualities to the table. Snodgrass antecedently co-authored, with his wife Lucie, Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide. His curiosity, mutual sense and years of experience are apparent in his current effort. McIntyre, a gifted writer, with her own impressive background from law to languages, has edited and organized the data in divisions that are concise and readable. There are five comprehensive chapters: Basics, Anatomy of Green Roof Assembly, State of the Industry, Designing and Building Your Green Roof and Maintaining You Green Roof. Each chapter is preceded by an outline of pertinent Key Points. There is likewise a worthful Resources section plus an spacious bibliography.
The North American green roof industry is moving beyond infancy through trial and error. Mistakes may be obviated by reading The Green Roof Manual. There is no one-stop buying goods for a successful green roof, and it is imprudent to presume what works in Chicago will work in Dallas. There is, however, a great deal of mutual ground. The plant palette might be dissimilar but the structural checklist will be similar with territorial tweaking.
Many cookbooks have come along in the last seventy years (most are forgettable) but there are a lot of tattered old copies of The Joy of Cooking still in kitchens. The Green Roof Manual will be a go-to reference for a good deal of years.
0 of 0 persons found the following review helpful.
Fabulous resource!
By Lisa Zechiel
This book is genuinely all you need if you are looking to install a green roof. It is comprehensive and laid out in a very user-friendly style. It is not so technical as to be beyond relatable to the lay person, but instead, furnishes you with all the technical exploration and know-how you will need to carry out (or not, as all of the pros and cons are presented) your green roof project.
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