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Green Roof Brochure - EnGL202C
Green Roof Brochure - EnGL202C
IMPROVE PERFORMANCE
TERM MEANING
Green Building An outcome of a design which BENEFIT THE ENVIRONMENT
focuses on increasing resource use
efficiency while reducing building
impacts on human health
Sustainable Seeks to reduce negative impacts
Design on the environment, and the health
History & Uses and comfort of building occupants,
1971: Germany
LEED The Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design green building
rating system provides a suite of
standards for environmentally sus-
ROOFS
tainable construction
Landscape architects Gerda Gollwitzer and
USGBC U.S. Green Building Council is a
Werner Wirsing publish Roof Areas Inhabited, non-profit trade organization that
Viable, and Covered by Vegetation, an early promotes sustainability in how
treatise on modern green roofs. buildings are designed
Solar Panels/ Device that converts light directly
1975: Mainz, Germany Photovoltaic into electricity
The Landscape Research, Development & Con- Modules
struction Society, which has established widely Sedum Yellow flowers with typically five
D E S I G N
petals and water storing leaves
followed green-roof standards, is founded.
S U S T A I N A B L E
2001: Chicago City Hall: Chicago www.usgbc.org
William McDonough and landscape architects www.usgbc.org/leed/
Conservation Design Forum install the country’s
first municipal green roof on Chicago’s city
C O N T A C T I N F O
hall.
Josh Wentz
2004: Millennium Park: Chicago
One of the largest green roofs in the world, Professor Baptista LEED
the park extends 24.5 acres over underground
parking garages.
ENGL 202C
Summer 2009
Certified
2008: Bank of America Tower at One Bryant
The first Platinum LEED high-rise office building
will include a 4,500-square-foot green roof on
a connecting building.
Figure 2: Green Roof Figure 3: Extensive Figure 4: Intensive Figure 5: Urban Heat Island Effect