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"Green Roof Technology is a key member for Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and continues to make important contributions to its ongoing development."Steven W. P.
Founder and President
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
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.
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 |
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| 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 |
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