The present study applies a gis based mapping methodology to evaluate the spatial variation of urban green roof ecosystem services and priority green roofs in braunschweig germany.
Green roof gis building at rit.
The first is a lightweight extensive system containing sedums.
Green buildings rit recognizes the impacts that buildings and infrastructure can have on the environment and is committed to employing sustainable design and construction principles as the campus grows and changes.
26 on the third floor green roof terrace of the new building that will house the golisano institute for sustainability is designed to attract a steady stream of butterflies.
The rochester institute of technology rit is a highly respected university located in rochester ny with a 1 300 acre campus 15 000 undergraduate students and over 150 buildings on.
The rochester institute of technology rit adds a highly sophisticated unique sustainable building with leed platinum certification for sustainable studies.
Not only does this academic building utilize many sustainable systems it also has the ability to continuously monitor its own performance.
Rit requires that all new buildings be certified to a minimum of leed silver.
The golisano institute for sustainability at the rochester institute of technology is located at 111 lomb memorial drive rochester ny 14623.
Eight feet wide and almost four stories tall the green wall contains 1 776 plants.
Four different categories of green roof uess were taken into account namely urban thermal climate air quality stormwater retention and biodiversity.
At rit the gis building or the golisano institute for sustainability has risen to this challenge.
Lechase construction company served as the design build team leader.
An application system integration with basic function of the environmental effect assessment and energy saving on green roof was designed by the technology of gis and google earth.
Allowing engineers to check on the system and test new systems.
As powerful mapping software google earth can provide satellite photos of three dimensional building roofs in big cities to gis system.
The design team sought to incorporate cutting edge green technology into every inch of the 84 000 sf building which houses specialized research labs student work areas classrooms and office suites.
See the project profile from swbr architects and the.
A garden planted oct.
Visit their website and specifically the new gis building watch the 4 06 rit s golisano institute for sustainability dedication and tour by rit university news on youtube.
Part of rochester s seneca park zoo butterfly beltway project begun in 2002 the rit garden is the 124th in a nine county area.
