Rutgers Green Roof

The research greenhouse is located in new brunswick new jersey just off route 1 on college farm road.

Rutgers green roof.

Clint andrews rutgers center for green building. The living wall grows over 70 species of plants. Rutgers the state university of new jersey 88 lipman drive room 210 new brunswick nj 08901 8525. The new jersey institute for food nutrition and health located on cook campus boasts one of the state s largest living biowalls.

Vegetated roofs provide many environmental benefits such as decreased stormwater runoff and reduced building energy use. The cool roof rating council crrc does not set minimum requirements but uses independent and accredited testing laboratories and a random testing program to identify products on its online rated products directory that meet the ansi crrc s100 accredited standard. Cool roofs options are available for most standard roofing materials and come in common roofing colors e g gray red. The green roof on top of cook s m arket features interlocking sweeps of mostly native plants such as little blue stem schizachyrium scoparium purple coneflower echinacea pallida and mountain mint pycnanthemum incanum.

It is located between parking lots 98a and 98b near the intersection of college farm road and dudley road. A vegetated roof or green roof consists of vegetation in a lightweight growing medium placed on top of the drainage layer root barrier and waterproof membrane see figure 1.