Blue Roof Systems
A blue roof is designed for control and temporary attenuation of storm-water during periods of heavy rainfall, before releasing it at a controlled rate back into the environment/site.
Benefits of a Blue Roof System
- Reduces land take
- Cost effective
- Reduces earth works requirements
- Sustainable
- Helps Achieve LEED and BREEAM Points
- SUDS Compliant
- Easy to install and maintain
- Controls storm-water run-off
Why specify a Blue Roof?
Blue roofs can provide a number of benefits depending on design. These benefits include temporary storage of rainfall to mitigate runoff impacts, storage for reuse such as irrigation or cooling water makeup, or recreational opportunities.
Widespread urbanisation
Urbanisation has resulted in more impermeable surfacing than ever before which has changed the modern hydrology to run-off rather than infiltration
Changing rainfall patterns… more rain, more often
Global warming? El Nino? Call it what you want but more rain is falling more often than ever before
Aging drainage infrastructure not able to cope with demand as a result of the above
Run-off is forced into an aging stormwater sewer system that just cannot cope with the volumes of water and backs up with the inevitable flooding events.
Similarly, rivers and other water courses are already running at, or near, capacity and cannot take any more.
SuDS
The aim of SuDS is to reverse this and make developers responsible for controlling water within their site.
Blue Roofs
A blue roof is a roof that is designed to control and provide temporary attenuation of storm-water during periods of heavy rainfall, before releasing it at a controlled rate back into the environment/site.
Designed to reduce peak rates of rainwater run-off during storm events.
This is the key aim of a blue roof. Temporary attenuation of storm water within the roof structure and control of its discharge allows us to release the water at a rate that the site can cope with.
Restrictive Chamber
A Blue Roof provides control and temporary attenuation of storm-water through the use of specially designed chambers.
This is how we design a blue roof; Two elements, temporary attenuation and discharge control device.
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