With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches.a Living roofs present an opportunity to compliment ground-level storm water control measures, contributing to a holistic, integrated urban water management system.This book offers tools to plan and design living roofs, in the context of effectivelya mitigating storm water. Quantitative tools for engineering calculations and qualitative discussion of potential influences and interactions of the design team and assembly elements are addressed.a
Demonstrates the tools to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of living roofs for cities to manage urban runoff.
