Engineering Green Roofs for CoV's Rainwater Management Plan

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Description

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.

Learning objectives

  1. The distinction between stormwater retention and detention
  2. The importance of detention in urban centres (ie Greater Toronto/Vancouver Area)
  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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Proof of Attendance will be issued for:

  • AIBC Core Learning Unit (LU)
  • BCSLA Continuing Education (CE) Credit
  • EGBC Continuing Education (CE) Hour
  • PEO Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Credit
  • OAA Structured Learning ConEd Credit
  • OALA Continuing Education (CE) Credit

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Presenters

Head shot of Dr. Karen Liu, Next Level Stormwater Management's green roof specialist. NLSM is Canada's green roof supplier from Vancouver British Columbia to Toronto Ontario to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Next Level offers vegetated and non-vegetated stormwater management tools such as soilless green roofs to retention and detention systems to meet municipal requirements.

Karen Liu

BASc, MASc, PhD
Green Roof Specialist

Karen has been conducting green roof research since 2000. Before joining the private sector, Karen was a lead researcher of the green roof programs at the National Research Council and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She led the research teams to instrument and monitor various green roofs in Ontario and British Columbia to evaluate their water balance and examine their potential in stormwater management. Karen was a key participant in the research consortium that developed the first national wind testing standard for vegetated roofing CSA A123.24. Additionally, Karen has vast practical experience having worked on hundreds of green roof projects across North America, Europe and Asia.

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Head shot of Sasha Aguilera, Next Level Stormwater Management's design ambassador. NLSM is Canada's green roof supplier from Vancouver British Columbia to Toronto Ontario to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Next Level offers vegetated and non-vegetated stormwater management tools such as soilless green roofs to retention and detention systems to meet municipal requirements.

Sasha Aguilera

GRP, B.Arch (Hons)
Design Ambassador

Sasha is a leading consultant with nearly two decades of green roof industry experience. Aguilera has considerable experience working with designers and contractors on vegetated roofs of various complexities – from retrofits to new construction. Her work as a designer and consultant on various vegetated roofing projects across the country has established Sasha as one of Canada’s foremost green roof professionals. Aguilera is an experienced speaker having done hundreds of presentations over her career and has authored numerous articles one of which received CSC’s F. Ross Browne Award in 2017.

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