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Green Roof Infrastructure: Design & Installation 201 E-mail

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his is GRHC’s second course in the Green Roof Accreditation Program. Registrants should have already taken the Green Roof Design 101 Introductory Course or have a solid understanding of green roof design and available technology.

This course covers a multitude of implementation issues and what cannot be taught in one day will be available as supporting documentation in the participant’s manual. Covering material dealing with green roof actors' roles and responsibilities, construction contracts & administration and material implementation, Green Roof Infrastructure Design and Installation 201 has it all!

What You Will Learn:

This course provides the necessary information that will equip you to project manage the design and installation of a green roof. You will learn:

  • Essential qualifications for your project team.
  • Critical questions you need to ask your client (matching their ecological requirements to design practicalities).
  • Identifying building code/municipal permit issues.
  • Liability issues (including insurance, waivers, guarantees etc.).
  • Design and implementation issues for new and retrofit buildings (including structural loading concerns, drainage, erosion control, storm water retention, etc.).
  • Sub contracting and scheduling concerns.
  • And much more

Who Should Attend:

This course is targeted to the following professions:
  • Architects
  • landscape architects
  • engineers
  • planners
  • roofing consultants and roofing contractors
  • landscape contractors
  • horticulturists
  • specifiers
  • developers and
  • policy makers.

Tuition:

Tuition for this one-day course is $449. Tuition includes course materials and lunch.
Click here for a full list of courses.

Agenda

8:30 Welcome and Introductions
Course Objectives

9:00 Actors: Roles and Responsibilities
Critical Path
Construction Contracts and Administration

10:00 Exercises p.42
10:30 Break
10:45 Materials

12:30 Lunch

1:00 Growing Medium
Pavers and Pathways
Vegetation

2:30 Exercises p101 (Scenario 1), 103 (Scenario 2)

3:00 Break
Warranties and Liability
Project Close Out and Post-Construction

4:15 Exercises p101 (Scenario 2), 103 (Scenario 1)

4:45 Summary

Manual:


Click here to purchase the Green Roof Design and Installation 201 course manual.

More Information

For more information, call 416-971-4494
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:15
 
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