Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure Format: Hardcover

Susan Weiler, Katrin Scholz-Barth

ISBN 10: 0471674958 / ISBN 13: 9780471674955

Published by John Wiley and Sons, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471674958
• ISBN 13: 9780471674955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.

About the Author

Susan K. Weiler, Fasla, is a partner at OLIN, a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lectures widely and teaches landscape architecture at Temple University, where she developed its landscape engineering and construction curriculum. She is the recipient of the 2003 Green Roof Award of Excellence.

Katrin Scholz-Barth is a consultant from Washington, D.C., currently working to help establish green roofs in the Middle East. A national expert in green roof technology, she leads efforts in ecological planning and design both in the United States and the Middle East. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and is former director of sustainable design for the HOK Planning Group, a business unit of The HOK Group, Inc. She is also the recipient of the 2003 Green Roof Award of Excellence.