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Performance of Green Roofs for Rainwater Control

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  • A. Raimondi

    (Politecnico di Milano)

  • G. Becciu

    (Politecnico di Milano)

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Green roofs can be an effective tool for sustainable urban drainage, since they reduce and retain runoff by delaying its peak. Most studies analysing the retention capacity of green roofs are usually referred to a specific place and roof condition and do not consider the possibility that the roof could be partially pre-filled from previous rainfalls at the beginning of the given event. The aim of this paper is to develop an analytical probabilistic approach to evaluate green roof performance for stormwater control in terms of runoff that could be applied for different sites and climate conditions. To this end, the possibility that the green roof retention capacity could not be completely available owing to pre-filling from previous rainfall events has been considered and equations for an optimum green roof design, relating the runoff average return interval to the water retention capacity, have been proposed. The influence of parameters affecting the runoff process has been examined in depth and a case study to test the goodness of fit of the resulting equations has been developed.

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  • A. Raimondi & G. Becciu, 2021. "Performance of Green Roofs for Rainwater Control," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 35(1), pages 99-111, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:waterr:v:35:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s11269-020-02712-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02712-3
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