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Here is the list of sedum we installed on the Brooklyn green show house green roof installation. We got them from motherplants.net, a great source of green roof plants. We picked these sedum because they will do well in Brooklyn. SEDUM ACER Sedum acre, a yellow-flowered, short-statured plant that does well on cold climate [...] If you are putting a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone (like we just did) chances are you don’t have a lot of space for soil and plants to be laying around. This means you need to get your materials the day before you plan on installing your green roof. We recommend getting the [...] We just installed the green roof on the Brooklyn Green Show House. Here are the material costs to build a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone. Total Roof area 600 sq.ft. Green Roof area 500 sq.ft. Roof Prep This stage is about getting as much insulation and waterproofing on as possible. A green roof [...] In Brooklyn there aren’t that many pitched roofs. You get a lot of them in certain areas, especially Ditmas Park. We have a client in that area who approached us to replace their asphalt roof with the same. We are green roofers in Brooklyn so we come up when people do internet searches. [...] In this post, I’m going to diverge from the format of my past several entries a bit and explore strategies for installing green roofs on pitched surfaces. The International Green Roof Association (IGRA) states that roofs with up to a 30 degree pitch can be outfitted with a green roof, and that “traditional” green [...] We are designing a green roof in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for buildings that are joint condominiums. The total roof area is about 7000 sq.ft. Two design ideas are being thrown around, one with the walkway along the front wall perimeter and the other along the center of the buildings. The original idea was to [...] We are a Brooklyn green roof installer and the question of sedum type comes up a lot. Cuttings, plugs or plants? Most people aren’t interested in seeds: Too complicated and too long to grow. My preference is cuttings. Fully grown plants are not a consideration for price and other reasons. Between plugs and cuttings: [...] My manager Jack and I were talking about the direction of Eco Brooklyn today and we were trying to put into words the concept of Eco Brooklyn’s services. Jack came up with a genius term: Urban Off Grid. That is exactly what Eco Brooklyn does. We create urban off grid houses. This does not [...] Shashin Error: “title” is not allowed for ordering with type=albumphotos [...] Brooklyn NY brownstones are not built to carry heavy loads on their roofs. So when you install a green roof you need to build for it and know what the weights are. Here are the numbers from my friend Avra: Extensive – 10-50 lb/squ. ft Semi-intensive 30-90lb/sq. ft. Intensive 80-150 lb/sq. ft. Here are [...] Our Brooklyn Green Show House has doubled up joists in the roof in anticipation of a heavy green roof. I’m talking with my friends Atom and Lori, who are publishing a book on DYI green roofs in Brooklyn. We are seeing if they can install the roof on the show house as part of [...] GreenRoofs.org is my favorite green roof resource on the web. Run by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities the web site is full of useful info. If you ever wanted to put a green roof on your New York home then that should be the first place to look. When we are researching the best [...] Yesterday, right after finishing my last post about waterproofing membranes for green roofs, I got an interesting e-mail from a friend that I went to graduate school with. She is professionally involved in the green building industry and I contacted her for information on waterproofing membranes for green roofs when I first [...] In my last post, I identified factors that should be considered when installing a green roof (i.e. desired function, type of roof, whether structural modifications must be made to accommodate extra weight, composition of the roof system, proper substrate formula, appropriate mix of vegetative species, and desired time to maturity/planting method). In this post, I will [...] Now that New York is installing a lot of green roofs the main question is how much weight a green roof has. I had my ideas but two professors from Virginia Poly did some great research into the subject. Their findings were published in the Fall 2008 Journal of Green Building, which I’m only [...] One strategy for addressing impacts associated with urban development is to reduce the functional area of developed surface. The European community, and especially Germany, has opted to do so by re-vegetating roofs. Green roofs have been associated with a variety of environmental and economic benefits, including the ability to retain precipitation, filter pollutants, reduce maximum [...] We have been commissioned by a company in Manhattan to do a green roof. The first step was to do an engineer’s report, price analysis and 3D drawings. With that information they will have the ammunition to move the process to the next step of installing the roof. Here is the inspection and drawings. [...] A lot of numbers are being thrown around for the cost of green roofs. If you buy a modular grown off site system it can be $45 per square foot. I’ve even heard of systems costing $200/sq.ft. If you install it yourself with the bare minimum of materials off the shelf it can be [...] We are designing and building a green roof in Manhattan. As one of the few green roof companies in Manhattan it is a very exciting time. Building a green roof in Manhattan is a totally different feeling than doing a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone. Putting green roofs on brownstones is great, [...] Now here is a great green roof. If you have ever wondered how much it would cost to install a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone, how long it would last, how much you would save in heating and cooling, the payback and all sorts of other information then you can go to this green roof cost/benefit calculator. It is called [...] The Brooklyn green show house has a green roof, solar panels, and solar water heater panels. Needless to say that is a lot to fit on a 600 square foot space. So we’re looking at ways to fit it all in. Considerations are: Make it look nice from the street and back yard. Make [...] I love the abundance of energy emerging for green roofs in Brooklyn and New York. Installing a green roof in Brooklyn is the smartest think I can think of. When I go on a Brooklyn rooftop and see all the plane flat roofs I see a possible forest of verdant green and fauna. I [...] I went to the VERTICAL GARDENS show at a gallery called Exit Art. It is there until May 23, 2009. The show is actually under the main exhibit area. The FEATURED art was on the main level. You had the video of a guy having a plastic ear surgically inserted into his arm – [...] Things are looking good for green roofs in Brooklyn! As this article states there is a growing interest amongst local politicians in supporting green roofs. The surge is really gaining momentum. We have so many thousands of wonderful, flat, sun filled roofs in Brooklyn – prime real estate for a verdant canopy of [...] |
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