A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs

Smith, Ryan; Sajjadian, Seyed Masoud

Abstract

Increased development of Greenfield areas to tackle housing shortages, combined with increased rainfall due to climate change has created drainage issues within urban areas, this has increased pressure on existing drainage infrastructure and has intensified the need to consider the use of sustainable drainage systems on new and existing grey infrastructures i.e. buildings, roads and pavements. Blue and blue-green roofs are widely considered a means of improving sustainability and flood resilience in urban areas for all new construction. This paper reviews such systems from a technological point of view and provides insight into their potential and the challenges of their buildability in the UK construction.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-23
• Start Date: Sep 18, 2023
• End Date: Sep 20, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Jun 11, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Mar 7, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 8, 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
• Series Number: 378
• Series ISSN: 2190-3026
• Book Title: Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2023
• ISBN: 9789819985005
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8501-2_5
• Keywords: Blue Roof, Blue-Green Roof, Drainage System
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3153627
• Related Public URLs: http://seb-23.kesinternational.org/