Blackdown deliver green and brown roofing

A Blackdown Horticultural Consultants product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Dec 2, 2009

Blackdown Horticultural Consultants has supplied green and browns roofs for an ecological landscape at a student accommodation development.

Maritime Studios is the first student accommodation development from Devington Homes.

Blackdown Horticultural Consultants has delivered green and brown roofing systems for student apartments

The six storey building is one of the area's first purpose built complexes designed to meet the increased need for quality student accommodation following the expansion of the Combined Universities of Cornwall.

Blackdown's installation comprised 518m of bio-diverse brown roof and 220m of intensive green roof shrub planting and pebble border.

The bio-diverse element was applied as a dry grassland wildflower mix which will flourish naturally through germination and seed growth, providing new habitat for invertebrates and nesting birds.

The intensive shrubs provide a mix of deciduous and evergreen species to assist with rainwater run-off and providing natural insulation for the building.

Brown and green roofs both offer environmentally relevant design solutions and are often specified alongside each other to provide variance across a large roof area.