Green Roof Design and Installation Course

This course provides detailed information on:

• The full range of system types and components available to designers
• Design principles to optimize your green roof`s performance and align with client objectives
• Essential qualifications for you project team
• Determining the various professions and competencies required to optimally implement a successful green roof project
• Cost estimation and budget development
• Implementation issues for new and retrofit buildings (including staging, scheduling, conveyance methods, and coordination of trades)
• Contracts and construction administration
• Quality assurance, warranties, liability issues

What People Are Saying

In our evaluations, 92.6% of respondents said the course met or exceeded their expectations.

This course provides information that you can put to work immediately, including details and exercises on how to:

• Determine major functions and components of a green roof
• Describe characteristics and assess various advantages of different green roof systems
• Utilize an integrated design process in your project for maximum benefit
• Evaluate the major market drivers encouraging the green roof industry in North America
• Obtain maximum LEED points by integrating a green roof into the US Green Building Council rating system
• Essential qualifications for your project team
• Critical questions you need to ask your client (matching their objectives to design practicalities)
• Identifying building code/municipal permit issues
• Liability issues (including insurance, waivers, guarantees, etc)
• Design and implementation issues for new and retrofit buildings (including structural loading concerns, drainage, erosion control, stormwater retention, etc)
• Sub-contracting and scheduling concerns