Decreasing the size of the green roof will alter stormwater quantity thereby impacting ss credit 6 1 stormwater design.
Green roof 50 credit ss 7 2.
Ss credit 7 2 heat island effect roof 1 install 50 percent of the roof area with green roof to reduce urban heat island effect.
Concern or in cases where the green roof provides.
Reduce heat islands thermal gradient.
An additional building function e g exterior.
Sri 29 or greater 1.
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Stormwater design quantity control 80 tss reduction 1 c.
The base case model for the courthouse assumes.
Ss credit 7 2 heat island effect.
Overall green roof systems installed on 50 or more of the roof surface virtually guarantees 2 leed points and can contribute an additional 7 points toward leed certification almost 20 of the total needed for a project to be leed certified.
1 heat islands are defined as thermal gradient differences between developed and underdeveloped areas.
We credit 1 2 water efficient landscaping no potable use or no irrigation 1 green roof with native or adaptive vegetation has high level of rainwater.
Since the original design had a 100 green roof adding solar energy panels will have no effect on ss credit 7 2 heat island effect.
Basis for cost assumption.
Water efficiency we credit 1 1 water efficient landscaping reduce by 50 percent 1 green roof with native or adaptive vegetation has high.
2 the solar reflectance index is a measure of the constructed surface s ability to reflect solar heat as shown by a small temperature rise it is defined so that a standardblack surface reflectance 0 05 emittance 0 90 is 0 and a standard white surface.
Roof 1 point.
Green roofs do not include areas with solar energy panels.
Ss credit 7 2 heat island effect roof 1 install 50 percent of the roof area with green roof to reduce urban heat island effect.
Heat island effect roof.