GREEN ROOF

A green roof can be an oasis in the city landscape.

As land continues to be replaced with impervious surfaces due to population growth and urbanisation, the necessity to recover green space is becoming increasingly critical to maintain environmental quality. Installing green roofs is one option that can reduce the negative impact of development while providing numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits. They can improve stormwater management by reducing runoff and improving water quality, conserve energy, mitigate the urban heat island, increase longevity of roofing membranes, reduce noise and air pollution, sequester carbon, increase urban biodiversity by providing habitat for wildlife, provide space for urban agriculture, provide a more aesthetically pleasing and healthy environment to work and live.

A green roof is a roof surface, flat or pitched, that is planted partially or completely with vegetation and a growing medium over a waterproof membrane. They may be ‘extensive’ and have a thin growing medium (up to 200mm deep) with ‘ground cover’ vegetation, or ‘intensive’ and have soil over 200mm deep supporting vegetation up to the size of trees.

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Products

  1. DCT XPS GA 300
    DCT GA 300 extruded polystyrene (XPS) general application board provides excellent performance in roofs, walls and floors in both commercial and residential applications. The boards are rot proof, stable, durable and will have a life equivalent to that of the structure in which they are incorporated.
  2. ProctorGeo D-Rain DC20 Reservoir
    D-Rain DC20-R has been developed especially for flat/low pitched landscaped and extensive green roofs, to offer both rainwater storage and drainage.
  3. ProctorGeo D-Rain DC8
    ProctorGeo D-Rain DC8 (D-Rain DC8) is a dimpled HDPE sheet that provides an effective material for use as a foundation liner, subbase course or seepage layer in double masonry walls. When used below screed the D-Rain DC8 provides protection from rising damp.
  4. ProctorGeo D-Rain DC8 Plus
    The D-Rain DC8+ structure effectively captures and transports high volumes of water and resists the loads from earth and formwork.
  5. ProctorGeo D-Rain HC8-2G
    ProctorGeo D-Rain HC8-2G drainage & aeration spacer mat is made from a high void ratio three dimensional shaped mesh of UV stabilized polypropylene monofilaments, tangled and fused together and bonded on each side with a 100gsm filter geotextile.
  6. ProctorGeo EcoRain
    ProctorGeo EcoRain® is an innovative technology for subsurface irrigation that can be used for a number of areas that need to be greened.
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    ProctorGeo IRMA
    ProctorGeo IRMA is designed for use as a separating layer in ballasted or paved Inverted Roof Membrane Assembly (IRMA) flat roofs.
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    ProctorPassive Geo Vap120
    ProctorGeo Vap120 is a light duty vapour retarder and convection barrier.
  9. Styrofoam RTM-X
    Styrofoam™ RTM-X extruded polystyrene (XPS) thermal insulation distributed by DCTech, is recommended as a core material in sandwich panels for the walls, floors, roofs and doors in refrigerated trucks and containers.
  10. TAPERED ROOFING
    The tapered roof insulation has a dual purpose in mind, to drain and insulate level roofs.