A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions

Jack, Jade; Sajjadian, Seyed Masoud

Abstract

Flooding causes significant risk to the UK’s infrastructure and the need for additional stormwater management systems is growing rapidly. The demand for housing, lack of land, cramped housing with no gardens, urban cooling, air pollution and aesthetics are all the issues that the Blue Roof System (BRS) can assist with. This paper reveals that there is a lack of knowledge, research and understanding of terminology for BRS in the UK construction and therefore more research and data collection is required to increase the utilisation of these systems. The government planning policies should be encouraging/enforcing flood risk management systems to be implemented as standard with financial incentives.

• 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 23, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Mar 7, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 8, 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 79-87
• 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
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3153633
• Related Public URLs: http://seb-23.kesinternational.org/