Using Living Roofs and Walls - Schumacher College Course

Schumacher College

Living Roofs – an introductory course

November 17 – 19, 2010

Led by the UK’s foremost living roofs experts:

Dusty Gedge

(President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations
Gary Grant

(Chartered Environmentalist and Ecologist with 30 years’ experience)
John Little (Founder of the Grass Roof Company).

This 2-day comprehensive course looks at both the theory and practice behind specifying and creating your own living roof. These attractive and practical structures can play an important role in meeting the challenges of climate change mitigation, resource depletion and habitat loss.

Day 1: Participants will develop an in-depth understanding of the design and construction of these structures and how they relate to planning for the future, as well as about the selection and purchase of suitable plants and substrates.

Day 2: Working with expert guidance, participants will gain essential practical experience of the methods and techniques needed to construct successful living roofs of their own.    

£295 For more details, please click here.

Price includes all course teaching and materials, overnight accommodation and evening meals on the 17th and 18th November, and lunch and refreshments on the 18th and 19th November.

Reduced rates available for non-residents.

Organised in association with RESET, this course will be certificated to counts towards CPD.