Green Roof Portland

Our good friend jim labbe installed the roof in portland pdx oregon in 2017.

Green roof portland.

The piedmont green roof is the next stop on our small scale green roof tour. Portland has a long tradition of green roofs back to the early noughties. Ecoroof video the nature of portland s rooftops. However they do not refer to them as green roofs but as ecoroofs.

For information about portland s ecoroof program contact tim kurtz 503 823 5418. The ecoroof requirement as it is called goes into effect starting july 2018 and includes buildings in the central city over net 20 000 square feet with rooftop parking exempt. Green roof advocates everywhere are celebrating the recently adopted portland central city 2035 plan cc2035 plan which includes a mandate for vegetated roofing. A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium planted over a waterproofing membrane it may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems.

Portland is at the forefront of this exciting green building movement. Container gardens on roofs where plants are maintained in pots are not generally considered to be true green roofs although. The green roof atop the portland building an architectural icon located in downtown portland oregon was completed in november 2006. The green roof info think tank grit has been supporting the city of portland with green roof studies symposia and stakeholder testimony throughout the years leading to the development of the requirement.