Roof gardens as green infrastructure at the Marriott Library

On several of our buildings on campus (e.g., NHMU, FASB), you will find roof gardens as a form of green infrastructure that serves two purposes: adding aesthetic beauty to our campus and serving to moderate incoming solar radiation loads through evapotranspiration. Shown here is the roof garden on the west side of the Marriott Library. Youcan Feng in Civil Engineering completed his Ph.D. thesis research studying evapotranspiration associated with this roof garden.

Marriott Library roof garden

Measuring evapotranspiration at the Marriott roof garden