Burnside Gorge Community Center, Victoria Canada

Green Roof

Created at: 29 Apr 2022

Description

This publicly accessible green roof was funded by the City of Victoria, B.C., Canada Infrastructure Program as a way to recover lost habitat. The green roof on the Burnside Gorge Community Centre has 1066 m2 of green roof with grasses, bulbs groundcovers, and vegetation native to Garry oak ecosystems. The building is LEED Gold-certified project, and the green roof helped attain the certification.


Samenvatting (Dutch description)

Building Owner/Client: Burnside Gorge Community Centre, City of Victoria, B.C. Green Roof Design Team Lead: Sharp & Diamond, Landscape Architects (Connect Landscape Architecture) Architect: Garyali Architect Inc., Structural Engineer: Peterson Galloway, Civil Engineer: Herold Engineering, Installation Contractor: Adam Weir, Paradise Cityscapes Project completion: 2007 Green roof area: 1066 m2 (11,474 ft2)

Help us provide more detailed information about this project by contributing!

About the author

climatescan

• Submitted 1823 projects
• Expert at Water
• Netherlands

View all 1823 projects by this author →


Related projects

Below you will find the latest related projects in this category.

Show more related projects →

View all Water projects →