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Engineering Vegetated Roofing Systems to Optimize Stormwater Management

Nov 17, 2020 or Dec 15, 2020

Presenters

Karen Liu, PhD 

James Weldon, GRP

Urban centres have high concentrations of impervious areas which pose a challenge in managing large volumes of stormwater. Heavy rain events or back-to-back storms cause problems like flooding, property damage, and combined overflow sewer discharge. Green infrastructure, such as vegetated roofs, can help mitigate these problems because they restore the hydrologic cycle in urbanized areas. Vegetated roof systems designed for maximum stormwater management decrease the volume of stormwater within the urban core and reliably delay travel time of stormwater to the treatment plant. These retention and detention strategies help alleviate the burden of heavy stormwater on our cities’ infrastructure.

 Learning Objectives

1. The distinction between stormwater retention and detention
2. The importance of detention in urban centres (ie Greater Vancouver)
3. Existing roof top technologies
4. Using biomimicry to re-engineer vegetated roofing system
5. Collaboration: Landscape Architects, Architects, Civil Engineers

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Nov 17, 2020

Dec 15, 2020

Next Level Stormwater Management  is a supplier of vegetated roof systems customized to local requirements, with warranty and maintenance support. Our team offers analytical support such as ​stormwater calculations specific to location ​and building/roof type.

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As a Purple-Roof partner, Next Level Stormwater Management as access to the latest green roof stormwater test data and related innovative hydrologic modeling tool. Email or call (416) 637-5772 Ext 1 for stormwater calculations specific to your project.