This week has been full of living roof experiences, which is one of my favorite types of work. Earlier in the week I gave a presentation on the WCC living roof (and a tour of the roof) to a group of visiting sustainability students from the University of Maryland touring NZ with their professor Dr John Lea-Cox. The roof is looking fantastic, with some great growth of the native plants.
Then, spent friday helping Zoe from Living Roofs and Blake from GreenScene to put in place a native living roof on the newly constructed Whangarei Council toilets at Bream Bay Walkway at Urqhurts Bay in Whangarei - what a stunning location...
... first order of the day was to hiab the substrate onto the roof.
then the process of spreading, laying out the plants and planting.
It was a long day, but the end result was great, and the coming months we'll monitor to ensure the plants survive over the summer (not the most ideal timing for planting but needs must). I'll update with photos of the completed toilet in a few weeks.
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