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“Well written and without doubt or question organized, with a wealth of descriptive photos throughout.”
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“Anyone involved with and fascinated in green roofs would be well advised to acquire this indispensable reference.”
(Viveka Neveln American Gardener )
About the AuthorEdmund C. Snodgrass started the basi 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 proprietor 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 also 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 — carry on to generate enormous interest and exuberance amongst architects, landscape designers, and urban planners. Increasingly rigorous stormwater regulatings and the appeal of LEED-related projects have likewise 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 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 providing 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 without doubt or question 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 future prospects or potentials and show green roofs both for the duration of construction and at respective stages of maturity.
At last, those seeking basic data regarding how to design and build green roofs have a concise, authorized guide to this stimulating new technology.
Who knew 50 years ago that we’d be using solar panels to heat our houses and wildflowers to insulate our roofs? Believe it or not, the green motion is here, and it’s getting it is origins deep into the building industry. If you’re in construction on any level, whether it’s drawing up blueprints or picking out wallpaper, that means you’re going to need psychological result of perception learning and reasoning of sustainable exercises to aid your business grow and succeed in the future. And the best way to do that is through LEED certification.
LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an internationally-recognized corroboration for green buildings. LEED buildings have been rated and approved in a potpourri of areas, including sustainable internetsite development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor surroundings quality.
While having your building or construction project be LEED certified is a outstanding way to get on the green bandwagon, LEED also offers corroboration to architects, real estate professionals, construction managers, lenders, and anybody else in the building business who wants to take that extra step and be recognized for their sustainability expertise. As the demand for green building construction grows, LEED certified masters put themselves in a better position to land contracts than those who are not. Best of all, you don’t have to go back to school or earn another degree to put yourself in the game. LEED offers not one, but two professional programs to support you stand out from the pack:
LEED Green Associate
LEED Green Associates may demonstrate a basic understanding of green design, construction, and operation. They’ve either worked on a LEED-registered project, are used in a sustainable industry, or participated in a green education program. (The U.S. Green Building Council offers a number of online courses that fill this requirement.)
LEED AP (Accredited Professional)
LEED Accredited Professionals have in-depth technical noesis of green principles. They may specialize in a specific LEED rating system, such as operations and maintenance, homes, building design and construction, and neighborhood development. To become a LEED AP, the campaigner must have worked on a LEED-registered project within the last 3 years.
Whether you want to want to become a Green Associate or a LEED AP, you’ll need to take the certification exam administered by the Green Building Certification Institute. Study materials, reference guides, online courses, and other exam prep materials may be found on the U.S. Green Building Council’s website.
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1 of 1 humans 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 evident in his current effort. McIntyre, a gifted writer, with her own impressive background from law to languages, has edited and coordinated the info in sectionalizations 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 division plus an extensive bibliography.
The North American green roof industry is moving beyond infancy through trial and error. Mistakes may be fended off 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 lot of years.
0 of 0 humans found the following review helpful.
Fabulous resource!
By Lisa Zechiel
This book is veritably 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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