Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure
Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.
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Review by J. Thaxton for Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure
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Finally, a complete and comprehensive guide to planning, designing AND constructing green roofs, A to Z. Most books on the topic of green roofs only offer case studies or explain the reasons why we need green roofs, but not the nuts and bolts. This book gives you all of the tools required from understanding the planning involved up front down to the technical details of design loads for trees and selection of waterproofing systems. As a landscape architect, this is one reference I find valuable for any project over structure.
Review by Carmin A. Politano for Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure
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This book is very well written etc. The subject matter, as well as its thoroughness can cause a person to think that they might know how to install a green roof. The facts of the matter, however, are quite to the contrary. The book is written with the assumption that the reader is an executive at a large firm which is willing to spew large dollars to purchase a large green roof. The book is filled with common sense like ‘make sure the contractor you select is qualified for installing green roofs’. After reading this book, you will become throughly educated upon all of the proper questions to ask someone whom is willing to sell you the answers. The actual answers and NOT in this book.
If you have the intent to install a green roof, then search the web with the intent to purchase a green roof. Sellers of products required to build a green roof are much more helpful with what is actually available, what it actually required, how to actually assemble it, how much it actually weighs, what species of plats will actually work in your area etc. The person who wrote this book said something like ‘make sure the species of plant you select will actually grow on a roof in your area’ and many more words without providing actual species lists for various areas.
If you actually have a few million dollars in your pocket and you are going to head something way large and would like a general class on the subject, then buy this book. If you are a teacher and would like your students to think you know what you are talking about, then buy this book.
Review by Antonino Giglio for Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure
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This is a truly amazing book on green roofs. If you are after nice pictures than this book is not for you but if you are after a huge amount of informations, the book with most informations on the market, then this book is for you.