praying for rain

 

look at the drought carnage:

Wish I knew what this guy is eating:

umbc roof cont'd

Thanks to Citiroof, another fine greenroof got installed this week on the new Patapsco residence Hall addition. With the generous support of UMBC officials, the installation of monitoring equipment will soon follow (will post more about this in the future).  The previous post details the earlier stages of the installation.  Here below you can see the roof before and during planting as well as during and after watering. 

umbc greenroof!

the arrival and distribution of the substrate:

     
This photo (left) shows the tpo layer (extra thick!) and the tpo slip sheet and the materials arriving.












it all started with
the arrival of the crane: