SkyScapeTM Vegetative Roof Systems

BRING THE BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE ROOFING TO YOUR NEXT PROJECT.

Experience True Peace of Mind

SkyScape Vegetative Roof Systems provide designers and building owners a full range
of solutions that meet or exceed all major performance criteria, and are easily installed.
Plus, SkyScape systems are eligible for protection under the strength of the industry's
leading warranty, the Firestone Red Shield Warranty.

A Full Range of Design Solutions

To meet the needs of your unique projects, Firestone offers a variety of performance
engineered solutions:
SkyScape Pregrown Modular Systems in 2.5", 4", 6" and 8" media depths

(see pages 3-4).

SkyScape Built-in-Place Systems (see page 5), including Extensive,

Semi-Intensive and Intensive vegetative roofs.

Easy to Install
SkyScape Pregrown Modular Systems are compact (approximately 2 sq. ft. per unit),
lightweight and simple to install. Our Built-in-Place systems integrate filter fabric,
drainage panel, and geotextile into a single roll to reduce labor. All SkyScape systems
are designed to install easily, giving the building owner a complete and beautiful
vegetative roof from the day of installation.

Field-Proven, Lab-Approved
A decade of field experience in vegetative roofing has enabled Firestone to provide
thriving systems that we confidently warranty for up to 30 years.
Firestone Growing Media is blended to Forschungsgesellschaft

Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau (FLL) international standards and is

regionally formulated to maximize sustainable plant growth in multiple climatic
conditions
SkyScape plants, including our award-winning Sedum Mats, are designed specifically
for rooftop survivability, and are customized to each project's unique climatic
conditions and USDA Hardiness Zone
All of our systems meet ANSI/SPRI RP-14 design guidelines for wind uplift resistance
SkyScape Pregrown Modular Systems are FM approved for fire resistance

SkyScape Pregrown Modular Systems

All modules are made from 100% recycled HDPE materials, and are FM approved for fire resistance.
4" media depth (12" x 24" x 5.75")

Weight: Dry - 20 lbs per sq. ft.; Saturated - 25 lbs per sq. ft.;
Delivered unit: 45 lbs
Maximum rain event capacity: 1.77" storm
Storm water retention: 1.10 gallons per sq. ft.
Runoff curve number: .69
Plants (typical*): Sedum varieties with optional accent plants;
native drought-hardy grasses and plants
Irrigation: Optional

4" media depth (15" x 20" x 5.75")

Weight: Dry - 19.2 lbs per sq. ft.; Saturated - 24 lbs per sq. ft.;
Delivered unit: 45 lbs
Maximum rain event capacity: 1.77" storm
Storm water retention: 1.10 gallons per sq. ft.
Runoff curve number: .69
Plants (typical*): Sedum varieties with a wide variety of option
accent plants; native drought-hardy grasses and plants
Irrigation: Optional

6" media depth (15" x 20" x 7.75")

Weight: Dry - 28.8 lbs per sq. ft.; Saturated - 35.6 lbs
per sq. ft.; Delivered unit: 65 lbs
Maximum rain event capacity: 2.44" storm
Storm water retention: 1.52 gallons per sq. ft.
Runoff curve number: .67
Plants (typical*): Many options including sedum
varieties, accent plants, native drought-hardy
grasses and succulents
Irrigation: Optional

8" media depth (15" x 20" x 9.75")

Weight: Dry - 38.5 lbs per sq. ft.; Saturated - 47.1 lbs
per sq. ft.; Delivered unit: 85 lbs
Maximum rain event capacity: 3.11" storm
Storm water retention: 1.94 gallons per sq. ft.
Runoff curve number: .58
Plants (typical*): Diverse selection of plants including
sedum varieties, accent plants and flowers, native
drought-hardy grasses and succulents
Irrigation: Optional

2.5" media depth (15" x 20" x 4.25")

Weight: Dry - 25 lbs per sq. ft.; Saturated - 34 lbs per

sq. ft.; Delivered unit: 30 lbs
Maximum rain event capacity: 1.27" storm
Storm water retention: .79 gallons per sq. ft.
Runoff curve number: .83
Plants (typical*): Sedum varieties
Irrigation: Strongly recommended

* Custom plant varieties may be ordered for all modular systems.

SkyScape Pregrown Modular Systems

A True Engineered Environment
Module sides are open-honeycombed to allow for interconnectivity of moisture and soil nutrients

across the entire vegetative roof system

Module floor maximizes storm water management through unitized drainage/retention reservoirs
Module floor sits 1.75" above the roof surface to facilitate proper air flow beneath the vegetative

roof system
All four sides interlock to create a monolithic assembly that resists wind uplift
Optional grown-in irrigation is available upon request (see page 7 for further detail)

Green Roof Plants That Are Built to Last

Tended under nurseryman care, in the field, not in greenhouses, for months prior to delivery, to

promote thriving root structures and maximum plant longevity

The SkyScape plants in our standard pregrown mix are proven performers in rooftop
microenvironments
SkyScape plants are grown according to appropriate, academic and time proven propagation
methods, to enable true hardiness and longevity, not fast-grown with fertilizers like some other
green roof providers

.875" drainage hole

SkyScape Plants

Water Reservoir

SkyScape Growing Media

Filter/Separation Fabric

Unitizing Water Channels

SkyScape Module

Soil Profile
Filter Fabric
Water Retention

SkyScape Built-in-Place Systems

SkyScape Extensive Systems
Functional Vegetative Roofs for Effective Storm Water Management
(less than 6" media depth)

The single-roll drainage system features the 0.5" or 1.0" SkyScape Drainage Panel with filter
fabric bonded to the top and a geotextile bonded to the underside. Extensive Systems are
among the most popular type of vegetative roofing due to their lighter weight, shorter installation
time and ability to effectively manage storm water to meet local code requirements. Our awardwinning SkyScape sedum mats are recommended.

Extensive 0.5"

Extensive 1.0"

This meadow-like, easy-to-install vegetative roof also serves as a functional storm water
management platform. Drought-tolerant succulent plant species form the basis of an Extensive
System plant mix and come in a variety of deliverables for installation.

SkyScape Semi-Intensive Systems

Designer-Driven, Aesthetically Inspired
Vegetative Roofs (6-8" media depth)
This system features deeper media, allowing for a truly
designed rooftop landscape and more complex plants, including
accent plugs and perennials, than an Extensive System.
This system includes either our 0.5" drainage panel, or our
1.0" drainage panel, with filter fabric bonded to the top and a
geotextile bonded to the underside.
Depending on plants selection and project location, an irrigation
system may be recommended to ensure plant health.

SkyScape Intensive Systems

Creative and Imaginative Rooftop Gardens (8" and
greater media depth)

Perfect for amenity spaces, the full palette of options opens itself
to your creative design influence, all backed by the Red Shield
Warranty. Custom-created rooftop landscapes using highly varied
plantings - including native forbes and grasses, large perennials,
flowers, shrubs, and trees - multiple heights and depths of plants
and planting areas, rolling topographical effects, and spaces that
include colored rock, pavers, and benches - all come to life with
SkyScape Intensive Systems. These systems typically use our
1.25" Drainage Panel, which can be augmented with capillary mats,
drainage aggregrate, or combinations of mats and aggregrate, to
achieve proper drainage under extremely deep systems.

Growing Media and Plants

SkyScape Growing Media
Blended according to FLL guidelines, SkyScape Growing Media includes high-quality,
inorganic aggregates and organic components that optimize survivability. Each blend is
regionally formulated to meet the climatic conditions of your project location and to ensure
that your vegetative roof acclimates and thrives from day one.

SkyScape Sedum Mats

SkyScape Plant Plugs

Our award-winning mats are planted and

matured in the fieldnot in a greenhouseand include a blend of:

Our selection of plugs includes proven

rooftop performers, such as:

Phedimus takesimensis Golden Carpet

Sedum rupestre Angelina
Sedum reflexum Blue Spruce
Sedum album Coral Carpet
Sedum spurium Fuldaglut
Sedum acre Gold Moss
Sedum hybridum Immergrunchen
Sedum spurium John Creech
Sedum kamtschaticum
Sedum album Murale
Sedum spurium Red Carpet
Sedum sexangulare
Sedum spurium Tricolor
Sedum floriferum "Weihenstephaner Gold

Sedum rupestre Angelina

Sedum x Bertram Anderson
Sedum reflexum Blue Spruce
Sedum spurium Bronze Carpet
Sedum album Coral Carpet'
Sedum divergens
Sedum spurium Dragon's Blood
Sedum spurium Fuldaglut
Sedum acre Golden Carpet
Sedum acre Gold Moss
Sedum hybridum Immergrunchen
Sedum spurium John Creech
Sedum cauticola Lidakense
Sedum album Murale
Sedum spurium Roseum
Sedum spurium Red Carpet
Sedum sexangulare
Sedum stefco
Sedum spurium Superbum
Sedum spurium Tricolor
Sedum floriferum Weihenstephaner Gold

Custom Plants
A nearly unlimited selection of custom plants is available, including natives, grasses,
perennials, forbs, shrubs and even small trees. Let us know how you envision your rooftop
garden design, and we will work with you to meet your vision, with roof-appropriate plants
that will thrive in the project's climatic conditions.

Plant Selection
Selecting the right varieties of plants for your vegetative roof is critical to its longevity. They must
meet the climatic conditions of each project while also growing cooperatively with one another.
Thats why Firestone offers our customers professional assistance in selecting plants, and
will work with your design team to create a custom plant palette that remains beautiful and
robust for years to come.

Design Assistance
Firestone specialists in horticulture, landscape architecture, plant and soil science, roofing
systems and products, and roofing installation, can provide you with:
Complete system

specifications
Design suggestions
Plant selection
assistance

Detail drawings
Technical documentation
Storm water calculations
Budgeting assistance

Operations and

maintenance procedures

Remediation support

SkyScape Accessories
Irrigation Components

Edge Systems

Firestone pop-up sprinkler rotator heads can be

attached to the floor of our Modular System before
the modules are grown in the field. The heads may
either be attached using pipes provided by Firestone,
or via an existing sprinkler system on the roof.

SkyScape Edge Metal

Available for the
SkyScape Modular
System, and our Builtin-Place Systems
Firestone can provide custom edge metal
configurations for unique designs

Pavers

Sloped Components
SkyScape Sloped Cleats, Sloped Capillary Mats,
Sloped GeoGrids and Sloped Drainage Panels,
give your design team the specifically-engineered
products they need to bring all of the beauty of
a rooftop vegetative environment to the project's
sloped conditions.

SkyPaver Composite
Roof Pavers
Made from 95% recycled
rubber and plastic
Weigh a third less than
concrete pavers
Available in six stunning
colors
Brick-like shape and appearance allows for
multiple installation patterns, including curved
designs (with special wedge pavers)
Related Accessories
Planters
Concrete Pavers and Pedestals
Wood Pavers
Benches

Partnering with Firestone Building Products means superior support that goes
beyond the materials you need for your projects. We look at the big picture with
you, taking the entire building envelope into consideration, so we can provide
you with a complete solution. For exceptionally performing building materials
backed by the services, warranty and expertise you need

Count on Firestone.

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sales rep or visit firestonebpco.com.
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