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Green RoofSystemsgoes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.

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Susan K. Weiler, Fasla, is a partner at OLIN, a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lectures widely and teaches landscape architecture at Temple University, where she developed its landscape engineering and construction curriculum. She is the recipient of the 2003 Green Roof Award of Excellence.

Katrin Scholz-Barth is a consultant from Washington, D.C., currently working to help establish green roofs in the Middle East. A national expert in green roof technology, she leads efforts in ecological planning and design both in the United States and the Middle East. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and is former director of sustainable design for the HOK Planning Group, a business unit of The HOK Group, Inc. She is also the recipient of the 2003 Green Roof Award of Excellence.

目　　录

Chapter 1 Replenishing Our Diminishing Resources: Integrating Landscape and Architecture.
Chapter 2 Beyond the Property Line: Ecological, Economic, Spatial, and Social Benefits of Green Roof Systems.
Chapter 3 Envisioning Green Roof Systems: From City Scale to Project Scale.
Chapter 4 Green Roof Systems at the Project Scale: Site and Architectural Considerations.
Chapter 5 Considerations in Developing Structural Systems for Green Roof Systems.
Chapter 6 Component Parts: Inert and Dynamic.
Chapter 7 Putting the Parts Together: The Design and Documentation Process.
Chapter 8 The Bidding and Construction Process.
Chapter 9 Minimizing, Managing, and Insuring Risk.
Chapter 10 Maintenance Requirements and Performance Evaluation.
Index.

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" Green Roof Systems , provides technical information for theplanning, construction and maintenance of green roofs. The authorsprovide a lucid introduction with basic definitions of green roofsand a discussion of the serious effects that conventional roofs canhave on the environment. They describe the value of using greenroofs for stormwater management and for the creation of usablelandscapes over structure." ( The Designer , Summer 2010) "This isthe green roof textbook that will be indispensable for many years.The book credibly situates the green roof in the sustainable "savethe planet" scenario. There is comprehensive coverage of thedocumentation, bidding, construction, and risk management phases ofgreen roof implementation. The content of this book will set theindustry standard henceforth...overall, the book seamlessly mergesthe extensive and international experience of both Weiler andScholz-Barth, yet brings the green roof industry to this continent,with American standards and practices." ( Landscape Architecture ,October 2009) "Replete with charts, diagrams, and photos, "GreenRoof Systems" can serve as a one-stop resource for designers.Authors Susan K. Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth provide the basicsas well as technical information about green roof systems,component and applications, and how to design and build them." (GreenerBuildings.com , May 2009) "...this book is loaded withvaluable information. The book provides a bit of preface andcontext of the larger picture of green roofs from concept toplanning- but this is not the strong selling point. That comes inthe details. And there are details. The structure of the bookguides a reader through systems, materials, documentation,structure, bidding and construction, and touching on liability andmaintenance." ( landscape+urbanism blog , 4/30/09) "With the Obamastimulus package emphasizing the effort to weatherize existingbuildings this book couldn't come at a better time. A designer'sone stop resource to green roofs that merges architecture andlandscape. The book offers substantive and technical information onliving green roof and landscapes over structure." ( Green InsightNewsletter , May 2009)

<p>" Green Roof Systems , provides technical information for the
planning, construction and maintenance of green roofs. The authors
provide a lucid introduction with basic definitions of green roofs
and a discussion of the serious effects that conventional roofs can
have on the environment. They describe the value of using green
roofs for stormwater management and for the creation of usable
landscapes over structure." ( The Designer , Summer 2010) "This is
the green roof textbook that will be indispensable for many years.
The book credibly situates the green roof in the sustainable "save
the planet" scenario. There is comprehensive coverage of the
documentation, bidding, construction, and risk management phases of
green roof implementation. The content of this book will set the
industry standard henceforth...overall, the book seamlessly merges
the extensive and international experience of both Weiler and
Scholz-Barth, yet brings the green roof industry to this continent,
with American standards and practices." ( Landscape Architecture ,
October 2009) "Replete with charts, diagrams, and photos, "Green
Roof Systems" can serve as a one-stop resource for designers.
Authors Susan K. Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth provide the basics
as well as technical information about green roof systems,
component and applications, and how to design and build them." (
GreenerBuildings.com , May 2009) "...this book is loaded with
valuable information. The book provides a bit of preface and
context of the larger picture of green roofs from concept to
planning- but this is not the strong selling point. That comes in
the details. And there are details. The structure of the book
guides a reader through systems, materials, documentation,
structure, bidding and construction, and touching on liability and
maintenance." ( landscape+urbanism blog , 4/30/09) "With the Obama
stimulus package emphasizing the effort to weatherize existing
buildings this book couldn't come at a better time. 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." ( Green Insight
Newsletter , May 2009)</p>

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