Freight & Salvage

This popular Berkeley folk music venue relied on a living roof and flow-through stormwater planter to satisfy city code regulations. More than 50% of the roof is covered in native meadow and wildflowers, and the conventional roof area drains to a planter box filter at street level; together these features reduce the amount of stormwater flowing into city infrastructure, and prefilter what water does drain to storm pipe. The living roof also reduces energy required for cooling and provides habitat for native birds and butterflies.

Van Cortlandt Park

This unique project combines community recreation access with high security infrastructure operations in an integrated site plan. The project scope includes a 9-acre green roof system, use of wetland systems to filter water and control building temperature, application of surplus water to provide security, and management of local ecology consultants.

Excess ground water is redirected into habitat enrichment and security features. Surplus water is routed to the adjacent golf course and infiltration systems. Water features supply water for ground source heat in building systems and non-potable project water demand.