Green Roof Types

Modern Green Roof Technology offers endless varieties of vegetated covers for any impervious surface. Designing and implementing live vegetation requires professional horticultural experience to guarantee a functional system for 50 years or more. Green Roof Technology has the expertise to realize the impossible and the incredible - If you can dream it we can create it and keep in mind: Gardening is the last bastion of the patient, as nature cannot be hurried.

Extensive or Intensive, both types can be created on Sloped Green Roofs and Solar Green Roofs (click on text to learn).

 

	Extensive Green Roofs	Semi-Intensive Green Roofs	Intensive Green Roofs
Overall Depth	3 - 5 inches	5- 7 inches	7 - 24+ inches
Weight max.	15- 25 lbs/ft²	25- 40 lbs/ft²	35 - 80+ lbs/ft²
Plants	Mosses, Sedums, Succulents, Herbs and few Grasses	Selected Perennials, Sedums, ornamental Grasses, Herbs and little Shrubs	Perennials, Lawn, Putting green, Shrubs and Trees, rooftop farming
Irrigation	no, not recommended	partially, as-needed	yes, automatic/flood
Maintenance	low	medium	high
Use	Living machine	Diversity, habitat	Garden, Park
Costs	low	medium	high