Deep Dive Session

FRI-DD-01: Living Surfaces—How to Design Successful Green Roofs that Optimize Biodiversity

Friday, October 27, 2023

9:00am – 11:30am CT

2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, GBCI SITES AP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person

Lead Speaker(s)

David Yocca, FASLA

Senior Landscape Architect/Ecological Planner
Green Infrastructure Foundation
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Speaker(s)

Bruce D. Dvorak, FASLA

Associate Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
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Steven W. Peck, Hon. ASLA (he/him/his)

Found and President, Co-Founder
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities/World Green Infrastructure Network
Toronto, Ontario
Angie Durhman, MS, GRP (she/her/hers)

Principal, Owner
AD Greenroof LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Join an international team of experts in living technologies to learn basic concepts, design tools, and methods for making biodiverse green roofs that will help protect and restore biodiversity in cities throughout North America. Learn how to create and sustain rooftop habitats by developing your own designs within small teams.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn why the inclusion of biodiversity on green roofs is both feasible and critically important.
Learn how green roof/wall biodiversity supports and integrates with SITES certification (as well as LEED, LBC, and other rating systems).
See and understand the basic design elements and features of biodiverse green roofs (BGR).
Learn how to design and specify a BGR, including how to identify suitable plant communities appropriate for any ecoregion.
Understand costs/benefits of BGR outcomes to help overcome client/building ownership and stakeholder resistance to rooftop habitat.
Learn how to successfully plan for BGR maintenance and resilience that is essential to long-term success.