Viking Green Roof

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Viking green roof. A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. Viking products group is focused on providing total solutions. Has awarded a prize for green roof of the year 2014 to a 30 year old green roof atop the allianz insurance company. Often times that means finding solutions or locating resources beyond the usual roofing products or supplies.

The renaissance of green roofs was also boosted by a. A viking roof garden system is designed to do just that. In rural areas sod roofs were almost universal until the beginning of the 18th century. Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.

They look like hobbit homes or houses for fairies but scandinavian grass roofs are the real deal. While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask. Vikings built this amazing green roofed village 1000 years ago. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live.

Contemporary green roofing technology began during the mid twentieth century in germany when gerda gollwitzer and werner wirsing published roof areas inhabited viable and covered by vegetation the book investigated the different components of living roofs including root repelling agents waterproofing membranes drainage and the weights of different soils and plants to find a viable. During the viking and middle ages most houses had sod roofs. We ve been protecting properties for nearly 50 years. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the.

Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia. Viking s roof garden system is new zealand s only branz appraised green roof system. Tile roofs which appeared much earlier in towns and on rural manors gradually superseded sod roofs except in remote inland areas during the 19th century. Build a living roof green roof.

Offer both functional and aesthetically appealing benefits. Helping improve the quality of life in our urban environments and reducing the impact on our limited resources.