Advanced Green Roof Maintenance

The Advanced Green Roof Maintenance course manual examines the planning and implementation of maintenance of green roofs. This course manual includes detailed information on developing maintenance plans, contracts, and inspection reports that work in comply with warranty requirements. 

Advanced Green Roof Maintenance was created to assist designers, landscape contractors, building owners, facility managers, roofing consultants, roofing contractors, and Green Roof Professionals (GRPs) with an important but often overlooked aspect of green roofs: maintenance. 

This course manual examines design phase considerations; best practices for planning, budgeting, and implementing maintenance procedures; and approaches for rehabilitating green roofs that have been subject to maintenance neglect, including detailed case studies. 

Learn how to develop maintenance plans, contracts, and inspection reports that work in concert with warranty requirements.  The following learning objectives have been developed for this course:

• Understanding the impact that particular design decisions have on green roof maintenance requirements.
• Gaining an understanding of the major reasons to invest in a maintenance program. 
• Understanding common maintenance challenges and how to address them. 
• Learning how to budget and develop a maintenance plan. 
• Learning how to diagnose problems on a green roof.