Residential Sloped Green Roof

A recent trend is to adapt green roof technology for low and steep slope applications.

Residential sloped green roof. Often it will be planted with sedum stonecrop. But when it comes to designing a green roof a very high slope is advantageous. Garden roof assembly hydrotech s garden roof assemblies combine the proven performance of our monolithic membrane 6125 roofing waterproofing with proven green technology. Due to their high visibility a sloped green can be a real eye catcher.

Technical performance may vary by region climate and green roof design. As the popularity of vegetated roofs grows in the u s building teams are finding new methods for greening rooftops. Drainage thickness of growing media plant varieties etc. Sloped roofs retain less water in general and the moisture content varies from the ridge to the eave lowest edge of the roof.

It is the task of the designer to make adjustments in the green roof system accordingly e g. An extensive green roof on the other hand is a thinner lighter version that looks more similar to a standard roof. While the basic components of a sloped green roof are similar to that of a flat system building teams must pay particular attention to water management erosion control. Compared with flat roofs inclined or pitched roofs retain less water.

Roofing membrane durability one way of increasing the roofing membrane durability is to install a residential green roof the roof will reduce the exposure of the roof membrane. It can be sloped or flat. But as the pitch increases so do the challenges.