Blue-Green Infrastructure projects are gaining popularity due to their effectiveness in mitigating urban flooding while also addressing a number of other challenges including biodiversity, urban heat island, air quality and more. Designers will share captivating designs that enhance the urban landscape while improving resilience and human health.
Approved for 3.75 AIA, ASLA, APLD LU|HSW and 4 GRP credits.
Admission: $50 USD
Supported by: LiveRoof
Speakers
Agenda
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| 1:00 | Eric Durnford, Director of Business Development & Events, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities | Introductory Remarks | 1:10 | Joyce Langewen, Policy Advisor Climate Adaptation, Assistant Project Manager, RESILIO | RESILIO Project's Widespread Effect
Hear from the UIA Initiative team about the RESILIO Project, funded to install 10,000 square metres of innovative smart green roofs with enhanced water retention on social housing complexes in Amsterdam. Learn about the policy that is backing this project, as well as the technologies that will be implemented to serve as an example for the rest of Europe |
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| 1:30 | Dr. Darko Joksimovic, Associate Professor, Ryerson University | The Role of IoT in Living Infrastructure
Modeling, decision support and optimization of urban water systems allow for safe management of water resources. Learn about IoT from Professor Joksimovich and it's ability to monitor sensors, which in turns helps professionals manage, plan and design stomwater mitigation practices. This session will highlight the wired and wireless sensing networks being used at multiple projects, and the background, motivation and monitoring plans of these sites. |
1:50 | Brad Garner, CEO, Green Roof Diagnostics | Friction- Detention Technology & The Purple-Roof Specification!
Join Brad to learn about the innovative purple-roof, a green roof concept that optimizes stormwater retention. This concept is pioneering detention in vegetated and non-vegetated roof coverings. Different from other specifications, the purple roof concept creates stormwater detention via friction! Learn more about friction-detention technology and the ways in which this concept has proven to be successful in an array of settings. |
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| 2:10 | Mike Faha, Founding Principal, GreenWorks, P.C. & Amy Chomowicz, Governance Policy Analyst, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) | The Design Behind the Portland Expo Center Stormwater Green Wall Portland's Expo Center Stormwater Green Wall's innovative design utilizes roof-run off and re-routes it through vegetated planters, mounted to a vertical wall structure. This unique project does not fit the mold of a regulr bioswale, or garden, but rather is utilizes the available vertical space of the building to filter stormwater from the 9,4000 square foot roof! Hear from Mike Faha, GreenWorks and Amy Chomowicz, City of Portland, on how design and policy interacted to make this project possible. Learn more about the design considerations, planning and blue green technology utilized on this first of its kind project. 2:30 |
Q&A |
| 2:50 |
Break |
| 3:05 |
Liza Faber, Principal Engineer, Hazen & Sawyer |
Integrated Green and Blue Roof at the Osborne Association's Green Career Center
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The blue and green roof project at the Osborne Association presents a unique design to reduce CSOs in the ultra-urban environment of the Bronx, NY. Through a modular system using both blue and green roof trays, a customized design has been developed to meet the structural loading restrictions of a 100-year old building, provide an aviary habitat, and provide a learning opportunity for Osborne Center students and the community, all while reducing the stormwater discharge from the project site and improved water quality throughout New York Harbor. This presentation will review the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of the pilot project and its role in the development of NYC DEP's greater green infrastructure plan for New York City. 3:25 |
Katherine Dunster, Faculty Member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, School of Horticulture |
This presentation will describe the objectives, process, and technical details of harvesting rain water from a roof, storing it in a cistern, and using solar energy to power a 12 volt pump that moves water through a drip-feed irrigation system for an outside vertical wall garden. Updates on performance during the extreme heat waves of Summer 2021 on the BC Coast will be provided.
| 3:45 |
John Scholten, Product Specialist, LiveRoof, LLC. |
RoofBlue Retain: New Green/Blue Roof Solution Engineered After 4 Years of Stormwater Research | After conducting 3 years of collecting rainfall and runoff from more than 20 different combinations of green roof plants, soil and stormwater capture & retention layers, LiveRoof developed a prototype system to retain runoff overflow from its modular green roof systems. A double-blind study was conducted using triplicate plots of the prototype compared to soil-only and soil/mineral wool test plots under direction of Dr. Brad Rowe of Michigan State University. Runoff was collected over a 45 rainfall events ranging from 0.02 to 4.7 inches, and analyzed by Dr. Rowe. John will present the various options tested and the unique findings that led to the introduction of this new blue roof solution for enhancing retention on green roofs. 4:05 |
Q&A |
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