Abstract

Eco-neighborhoods with gardens on concrete decks are for several reasons increasingly being prescribed today in major Swedish cities. However, there is a lack of knowledge, experience, standards and guidelines as well as collaboration between parties and stakeholders when installing such systems. It is incredibly important to avoid any leakage during the lifetime of a green roof garden but this cannot be completely guaranteed with today’s installation practice and project management. At Sustainable City 2014 in Siena, we presented a paper about a new project aiming at bringing together researchers, government and industry to collaborative development of new and attractive solutions for green roof gardens with consideration to the environment and high requirements for durability, materials, construction and energy efficiency. This paper is a continuation of the paper presented in Siena and reports on the most recent results from the collaborative project which will finalize in November 2016. After that, the project will be further evaluated in a proposed continuation project for another couple of years.

Keywords

green roof garden; guidelines

Published in

Wit Transactions On Ecology And The Environment
2016, Volume: 204, pages: 363-372
Title: The Sustainable City XI
ISBN: 978-1-78466-103-8, eISBN: 978-1-78466-104-5
Publisher: WIT Press

Conference

11th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (SC), 2016, Alicante, SPAIN

SLU Authors

• Emilsson, Tobias

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

Built environment


UKÄ Subject classification

Other Civil Engineering


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2495/SC160311

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/80298