Green Roofs & Vertical Greening
Landscape on the building envelope — extending green space and ecological value where ground level is limited.
What’s included
- Green roof system specification (extensive, semi-intensive, or intensive).
- Vertical greening and living wall system design.
- Climate-appropriate plant selection for roof and wall exposure.
- Growing media, drainage, and filter layer specification.
- Structural load coordination with engineering design.
- Irrigation and maintenance access design.
For denser or more urban developments where ground-level landscape area is limited, green roof and vertical greening systems extend landscape architecture onto the building envelope itself — offering genuine environmental performance benefits including thermal insulation, stormwater attenuation, and biodiversity habitat alongside direct amenity value for building occupants.
We design green roof and vertical greening systems with close attention to the structural, waterproofing, and horticultural requirements that make these installations perform over the long term — specifying appropriate growing media depth, drainage layers, and plant selection for the specific aspect, exposure, and maintenance regime the installation will be subject to, and coordinating closely with structural and waterproofing design to ensure the building envelope is correctly specified to carry and protect the green layer above it.
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