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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.
Learning objectives
- The distinction between stormwater retention and detention
- The importance of detention in urban centres
- Existing roof top technologies
- Using biomimicry to re-engineer vegetated roofing system
Location:
online
How to Book:
Register
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oIXnryj6S1a36YbrYxTc0g
Please contact James Weldon for more info.