Victorian Desalination Plant Green Roof

2013 the 10th ifla apr awards for landscape architecture award of excellence landscape planning victorian desalination project master plan and green roof research.

Victorian desalination plant green roof.

84 km 1 93m diameter the desalination plant. Vegetables are the other main group of annual plants used on green roofs. It comprises 29 buildings including the reverse osmosis building the heart of the vdp. It covers a number of buildings of the process plant ranging in pitch from 3 5 to 20 degrees.

The undulating slopes of the roof are designed to limit visibility of the industrial buildings from the surrounding public areas and link to the nearby coastal landscape. The victorian desalination project green roof is the largest in the southern hemisphere. These require irrigation and a substrate depth of at least 200 mm. 100 000 indigenous plants water pipeline.

The 225 ha ecological reserve camouflages the plant through a 26000m2 green roof and a dune system evolved from spoil transforms degraded land into mosaics of coastal and. 150 billion litres a year regardless of rainfall to melbourne geelong and regional. The victorian desalination project and ecological reserve is critical infrastructure for climate adaption and one of the largest such investments in australia s history. The plant provides up to 150 gigalitres of additional water per year.

It covers a number of buildings of the process plant ranging in pitch from 3 5 to 20 degrees. Sika supplied green roofing system for this project. The quality of the design has been commended by the victorian state architects office dse and other government entities. Some green roofs are constructed specifically to support sports turf.

Located in wonthaggi the victorian desalination plant comprises 29 buildings including the reverse osmosis building the heart of the vdp. The victorian desalination project green roof is the largest in the southern hemisphere. Careful plant selection and maintenance is needed to ensure annuals do not become weeds on a green roof. It covers a number of buildings of the process plant ranging in pitch from 3 5 to 20 degrees.

It is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in victoria s history and can supply up to 60 per cent of melbourne s daily water requirements. The undulating slopes of the roof are designed to limit visibility of the industrial buildings from the surrounding public areas and link to the nearby coastal. The undulating slopes of the roof are designed to limit visibility of the industrial buildings from the surrounding public areas and link to the nearby coastal. As landscape architects for the victorian desalination project aspect studios have orchestrated the inclusion of an extensive green roof on the primary buildings of the process plant.

26 000 square metres green roof.