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Comparing the Retention of the Extensive Green Roofs with the Conventional Roof

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The inevitable development of cities has necessitated of a searching for new alternative solutions that enable the retention of as much rainwater as possible and increase the biologically active surface in urbanized areas. Green roofs may be the solution to the mentioned problems. The work assessed how meteorological factors influence the retention on two types of green roof substrates. Another practical aspect of the study is determining the difference in retention of mineral-organic and mineral substrate based extensive green roofs. The monitoring of environmental factors and amount of runoff was carried out on two models of green roofs covered by extensive vegetation (moss-sedum-herbs) with substrates of an organic-mineral and mineral composition for 18 months in an urbanized area under moderate climate conditions. Higher values of runoff by approx. 5% were registered in the model with the mineral substrate, which indicates lower retention abilities. The analysis of two green roofs and references roof showed that the runoff coefficients ranged from 0.33 to 0.38 for GR 1 and GR 2, for RR runoff coefficients was 0.83. Rainwater entering the system of green roofs is the most important input factor in the conceptual model of the retention of a green roof system. The obtained results can provide us with information important to make decisions connected with designing green roofs as far as hydrological advantages are concerned.

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The publication and research was conducted in the frame of cooperation project: “Testing of extensive green roof runoff for volume quantity and phosphate concentration” (1/KKŚ/2016).

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  1. Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787, Warsaw, Poland

    Anna Baryła, Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Agnieszka Bus & Edyta Hewelke

  2. Forest Research Institute, Braci Leśnej 3, 05-090, Sękocin Stary, Poland

    Michał Wróbel

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Baryła, A., Karczmarczyk, A., Bus, A., Hewelke, E., Wróbel, M. (2019). Comparing the Retention of the Extensive Green Roofs with the Conventional Roof. In: Krakowiak-Bal, A., Vaverkova, M. (eds) Infrastructure and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16542-0_10

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