Re: green roofs

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

David MacKenzie from Hortech (800) 875-1392 www.premiumplants.net.    
would be a good contact.  He has developed a green roof  grid system  
and sells the plants to go with them.  He consulted on the Ford plant  
project.

Nancy Szerlag
On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:48 PM, jo ellen meyers sharp wrote:

> Penn State:
> http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu/research/greenroofcenter/
>
> Michigan State:
> http://www.hrt.msu.edu/greenroof/
>
> These two universities have green roof research centers and have
> extensive information. I've used them as resources several times for
> articles I've written. Also, GWA member Ed Snodgrass might be a
> decent source, since he has a fairly new book out on plants for green
> roofs, and might have anecdotal information about failures. I've done
> about a half dozen articles on green roofs and attended three
> conferences and not heard anything about failures. Depending on how
> far you wanted to go, you could talk Ford in Dearborn, Mich., which
> has 1 million+ square feet under a green roof.
>
> jems
>
>
>> Does anyone have any information on the success rate of green  
>> roofs on
>> commercial buildings in this country?  Through a friend who has just
>> completed a green room on his garden shed, I heard of someone in a  
>> condo
>> in DC.  The association wants to redo the roof (which is in none too
>> good condition) as a green roof. The person I heard about was voting
>> "no" because he says the large commercial applications have a "high
>> failure rate." That is, they leak, and plants die out and have to be
>> constantly replaced at a great expense. My assumption is that they
>> either didn't build them properly, or chose the wrong plants?   Any
>> thoughts or information?  I know a huge percent of commercial  
>> builidings
>> in Germany have green roofs, but perhaps we are still far behind  
>> in this
>> country...
>>     Thanks,
>>     Catriona
>>
>
>
>
>
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