Managing Lean and Green - Up on the Roof

Putting your rooftop to use can reduce your heating bills, prevent stormwater runoff, mitigate the city’s heat island effect, and even provide a peaceful garden retreat for your tenants. This workshop will explore how the rooftop, a critical element of the city’s infrastructure system, is often a missed opportunity for sustainable building elements. Hear from NYC experts and building owners on putting your roof to work, through green roofs, cool roofs and stormwater management.

Confirmed Presenters:

• Dwaine Lee, Green Infrastructure Professional & Consultant; Field Manager - (Sustainable South Bronx) - Green roofs as a way to address stormwater runoff issues; the varioous types of green roofs; their affordability, policies or incentives, etc. 
• Jack Coogan, R.A., LEED GA – (OCV Architects) - Some brief green roof case studies; rainwater capture as a way to address stormwater runoff issues; the various types of rainwater capture systems; their affordability, policies or incentives, etc. 
• Loretta Tapia, Site Supervisor Coordinator – (Green City Force/NYC CoolRoofs) - a discussion of cool roofs as a way to address a different issue - urban heat island effect - cool roof affordability, how to access city resources for them, etc. 

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The “Managing Lean and Green” training series is sponsored by the Supportive Housing Network of New York, Pratt Center for Community Development (NYSERDA E$C Program contractor), the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.