Erika Richmond Design featured on Environmental Youth Alliance website!

The Environmental Youth Alliance does amazing work building and maintaining urban gardens all over Vancouver. While interning with them, I got inspired to design greenroofs, and they helped me every step of the way. Recently they featured me on their website

Heatley Ave Green Roof – The Finished Product

Plenty of people have been asking for photos of the finished roof, and I’ve been waiting until the sedums have grown in to show it off. Well, most of the plants are thriving, we’ve had plenty of sun and the staff at Eclipse Awards, Frogfile and I have been watering all summer. So, here they are!

The green roof being planted.

The sedums growing in.

We are watering three times a week until the rain comes.

Path edge with hose

Sedum spurium 'John Creech' in beautiful pink bloom!

Heatley Green Roof in the News!

Last week, Tommy Douglas of the citizen newsite VancouverIAM, did a piece on the Heatley Green roof! To see the video, click below:

http://www.vancouveriam.com/videos/a26e76fe3516

Heatley Green Roof in Progress – Planting

Heatley Green Roof in Progress – Growing Medium

Heatley Green Roof in Progress – Laying the Pathways

Heatley Roof in Progress – Building Boxes

Heatley Green Roof in Progress – Root Barrier

Heatley Green Roof in Progress – Drainage Layer

Current Project: Heatley Avenue Warehouse

This Strathcona warehouse was an inferno in summertime. The owner, Toby Barazzoul of Eclipse Awards, is interested in greening his business and the whole neighbourhood, so a green roof seemed like a perfect solution. Toby hired me to design and then install the green roof, and this blog charts the process from a hot black bitumen roof to a 3 inch extensive green roof.

Here is the roof as it was in February 2008: