Engineering Vegetated Roofing Systems to Optimize Stormwater Management – LA/CES APPROVED

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2020

Engineering Vegetated Roofing Systems to Optimize Stormwater Management – LA/CES APPROVED Next Level Stormwater Management Oct 20, 2020 : 10:00 am to Oct 21, 2020 : 10:45 am

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Engineering Vegetated Roofing Systems to Optimize Stormwater Management – LA/CES APPROVED

Presenters: Dr. Karen Liu, PhD and Sasha Aguilera, GRP, B.Arch

REGISTER | Oct 20 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time

Summary

Urban centers have high concentrations of impervious areas which pose a challenge in managing large volumes of stormwater. Heavy rain events or back-to-back storms cause problems like flooding, property damage, and combined overflow sewer discharge. Green infrastructure, such as vegetated roofs, can help mitigate these problems because they restore the hydrologic cycle in urbanized areas. Vegetated roof systems designed for maximum stormwater management decrease the volume of stormwater within the urban core and reliably delay travel time of stormwater to the treatment plant. These retention and detention strategies help alleviate the burden of heavy stormwater on our cities’ infrastructure.

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