Rutgers Green Roof

The living wall grows over 70 species of plants.

Rutgers green roof.

The new jersey institute for food nutrition and health located on cook campus boasts one of the state s largest living biowalls. Clint andrews rutgers center for green building. It is located between parking lots 98a and 98b near the intersection of college farm road and dudley road. Vegetated roofs provide many environmental benefits such as decreased stormwater runoff and reduced building energy use.

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. 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. Rutgers the state university of new jersey 88 lipman drive room 210 new brunswick nj 08901 8525. Cook s market at rutgers gardens claims the university s first green roof.

The green roof atop cook s market home of rutgers gardens farmers market features interlocking sweeps of mostly native plants such as little blue stem schizachyrium scoparium purple coneflower echinacea pallida and mountain mint pycnanthemum incanum. Figure 2 the light colored roof of the eda tech center in camden nj reduces the urban heat island effect and lowers summer cooling loads.