Intensive Extensive Roof Garden

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Intensive extensive roof garden. Intensive systems allow the designer to create a park like setting so they are the best option for roof gardens that will be occupied. It also allows for a formal garden to be installed with paths grass lawn and flowers or pot plants. Intended for recreational sporting and leisure purposes they are often indistinguishable from at grade landscapes. Intensive vs extensive a green roof comes in two varieties.

In europe in australia since 2002 covering 360 000m2 intensive 41 000m2 extensive roof gardens. Extensive roofs are typically lightweight and can be installed over a variety of structures including metal roof decks. An extensive green roof is characterized by a thinner layer of soil and smaller plants. Fytogreen intensive roof garden podium and planter box specifications for intensive roof gardens podiums and planter boxes.

As parks and gardens they need frequent maintenance just as a park or garden needs to be tended on a regular basis. Intensive the landscape possibilities with an intensive garden roof assembly are virtually limitless. The word intensive actually refers to the amount of input required to maintain a green roof. An extensive garden roof assembly can be applied to flat roofs and sloping roofs with a pitch of up to 12 12 or 45 provided the appropriate measures are taken to cope with the shear forces and soil retention.

Typically these roofs will have more soil and some small shrubs as well as the low growing wildflowers and sedums found on an extensive roof. Intensive includes a thick layer of soil that can support large vegetation such as small trees. Intensive green roofs weigh from 35 pounds to beyond 100 pounds per square foot when dry it is all a matter of the soil depth which is affected by the amount of mounding that is used. This deeper soil allows intensive roofs to accommodate large plants and dramatic plant groupings.

Intensive green roofs involve intense landscaping and are suited to roofs with a highly visible presence or public access and commonly referred as a roof garden. An intensive assembly follows the same design concept as an extensive assembly. However the gardendrain component has a taller profile and is. Intensive green roofs and roof gardens.

The intensive green roof uses planting mediums that have greater depth than the extensive green roof. Bauder has experience in helping design accessible roofs and roof gardens to achieve the right layout and planting choices. Intensive green roofs are intended to replicate what can typically be found at ground level in the natural landscape and in green spaces such as parks or cultivated gardens. The degree of maintenance for intensive green roofs depends on what has been planted.

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