Services
Systems
Products
Projects
Consulting
Design Integration
Grant Writing
Traditional vs. Blue vs. Green
Stormwater Roofs
On-Grade Stormwater
Leak Detection
Drainage & Retention
Watergrip
Porous Pavement
Rain Barrels
Stormwater Harvesting Cells
Large Tank CisternsConsulting
Time is money: A statistically alarming amount of green infrastructure project relating to stormwater are either value engineered out of a project and/or are problematic after installation. This is generally due to lose specifications and poorly vetted contractors. This encompasses plaza decks, vegetated roofs, porous/permeable pavers, bioinfiltration and stormwater collection and reuse systems. Wasted time = A lower return on investment for everyone involved. The reason for this is that these projects lack a green infrastructure industry expert that will guide your team to make the best economic decisions to meet your stormwater management needs. Hanging Gardens is that expert with over 50+ years of combined experience that ensures that sustainable systems with the greatest return on your investment dollars are always effectively designed and installed on your projects. We guarantee this.
Design Integration
The use of green infrastructure; such as plaza decks, vegetated roofs, porous/permeable pavers, bioinfiltration and stormwater collection and reuse systems, for stormwater management is a component of the built environment that encompasses numerous design acumens and skilled trades. With that said, the integration of the components necessary to attain the highest value systems is a challenging proposition to ensure all that the designs remain streamlined and the installations are both effective and efficient. Hanging Gardens design integration division does not provide architectural design or engineering services. We support these services and design professionals by ensuring that the most effective components to achieve your project needs are utilized and all of the pieces are integrated properly. With over 400+ components available from Hanging Gardens repertoire of offerings, we assure that when your projects are released for bidding that you will be provided with details and specifications that will be clear, concise and result in consistent pricing that will add value to your projects.
Grant Writing
Is your development of design firm looking to integrate cutting edge stormwater technologies in an urban environment, but lack the necessary funds to make your project a reality? Regardless if you are in large metropolitan areas such as Chicago or New York or middle market MSA’s like Milwaukee, New Orleans and Seattle, national funding opportunities to utilize vegetative roofing, rooftop urban agriculture, brownfield remediation, stormwater harvesting/reuse systems, etc. to reach a higher standard of onsite stormwater management through performance green infrastructure are available. Hanging Gardens retains skilled grant writers on staff to be “bridge-builders” turning your dreams into a reality through incentive programs throughout the nation. There are millions of dollars available across the country to help further proliferate green infrastructure. Our mission is to help you utilize these opportunities. Hanging Gardens has the rapport that has allowed us to receive grant funding priority from grant advisors across the nation that will ensure you a high success ratio for approval of your grant application.
Traditional vs. Blue vs. Green
Previously utilized to promote evaporative cooling prior to the age of air conditioning, Blue roofing is experiencing a renaissance that once again utilizes roofs as open-air cisterns for rainwater collection. These systems offer a tremendous amount of water could that can be stored on a building’s roof, given the right waterproof membrane and structural loading capacity. Water weighs 62.4lbs per cubic foot. Most cities require that the first inch of rainfall be mitigated on site, which translates to 5.2lbs per inch of depth per square foot on a roof’s surface. Our blue roofs designs have an average depth of 2-4 inches. In addition, we ensure that every blue roof design has multiple fail-safes. This is accomplished through our leak detection systems (link to leak detection), raised scuppers which act as overflows once the roof has reached peak capacity, as well as state-of-the-art roof drains which “flush” the entire blue roof through WIFI technology. Our systems provide volume stormwater mitigation through cost effective performance products and design.
Stormwater Roofs
In dense urban areas, many times the only means to effectively contain and control stormwater is to include the roof of the building as part of the stormwater solution. Hanging Gardens is well aware of this issue and has created two vegetated roofing systems that will allow to best meet your stormwater management needs. Additionally, since we are aware of the uniqueness of rooftops, structural loading capacities as well as other environmental circumstances, we also provide custom systems utilizing our many other products. Please contact Hanging Gardens design integration department (link to design integration) to receive further details on how we may assist you with your stormwater roof.
On-Grade Stormwater
Hanging Gardens offers multiple solutions to manage onsite stormwater, i.e. bioinfiltration, porous pavements, integration of native plantings as well as stormwater collection and infiltration. We are well aware that neither of these options offer a silver bullet to consistently resolve all site specific stormwater management issues and needs. However, in combination these choices provide us with the tools that do meet the unique site specific requirements for all projects, consequently enabling us to provide our clients with the highest value choices each and every time. By imputing data sourced from your site plan and stormwater requirements into our self-developed stormwater calculator, we are able to provide you with the recommendations that will provide you with the greatest value to meet your stormwater needs. Below you will see some examples of systems that have been commonly created from these site specific analyses.
Leak Detection
The number one litigated construction trade in the nation is roofing and waterproofing. Now with the emergence of vegetated roofing as a more commonplace commercial application, the potential liabilities have been exacerbated through the installation of overburden on roofing/waterproofing materials. The use of water tests and thermal imaging on these covered and constantly moist conditions are no longer effective methods in determining the location of a roof leak or breach. Leak Detection is the answer to minimizing your exposure to potential building damage, reduced employee productivity and provides the peace of mind that if you have a leak that it will be resolved in a quick and efficient manner. We offer both reactive and proactive systems that will pin point any leak as close as to 2” from the source. We recommend leak detection solutions to all of our blue and vegetative roofing clients. Additionally, it is a standard requirement to receive any Hanging Gardens blue or vegetative roofing warranty. We too understand the necessity to limit our own liabilities.
Drainage & Retention
Drainage Mats and Drainage/Retention Boards are chosen based on roof slope, accessibility, compressive strength, plant palette, water retention & peak discharge delay requirements. Regardless of project need, we are able to provide an appropriate solution for your project. All of our products are recommended for flat roofs, lightweight and provide a reliable discharge of water. Specific to our drainage/retention boards, we are proud to provide the largest and most time tested line of high water retention and discharge delay drainage boards available.
Watergrip
A focus of Hanging Gardens research and development is to globally locate products and improve them for the green infrastructure for stormwater marketplace. Watergrip is no exception to that internal vision of providing new, yet proven and researched technologies to our clientele. Perfect for extensive vegetated roofs, integration into food/agricultural roofs and well as for the establishment of newly installed or transplanted plantings, watergrip provides excellent capillary action, unparalleled water, air and nutrient holding & cat ion exchange capacities. Ultralightweight for roofs and ultra-water absorbent for reduced irrigation loads.
Porous Pavement
Porous pavers are sometimes confused with permeable pavers. Porous pavers allow for water to pass through the paver structure. Permeable paver systems only allow water to pass through the cracks between the pavers. With that said, permeable pavers are much more subject to installer error and are truly much less permeable than porous pavers due to majority of the system being impervious. Comparisons aside, our porous solutions offer much more than a high performing product. We offer a line of 50+ aesthetically appealing sizes and textures for any of your porous pavement projects.
Rain Barrels
Rain Barrels for the commercial construction and building industry are generally overlooked for water storage and collection because they tend to be too small to be effective for commercial applications. The other issue is that there is no supplier that specializes in rain barrels for commercial sector. Hanging Gardens provides a solution for both those issues. We are the first commercial company specializing in stormwater to offer rain barrels at relevant sizes for the commercial building industry. We offer a line combining over 100+ colors, textures and sizes of rain barrels that reach up to 360 gallon holding capacities.
Stormwater Harvesting Cells
Stormwater Harvesting Cells are structural modules designed with 95% void space to maximize underground water holding capacities and/or infiltration rates. Additionally, the product offers a cost effective alternate to Large Tank Cisterns, the industry norm, with an installed cost of 50-65% of the Large Tank option. Beyond price, our 10 unique Stormwater Harvesting Cells offer a flexible solution that has the ability to take on numerous configurations of dimensions to meet any project requirement.
Large Tank Cisterns
Large Tank Cisterns are the commercial standard for onsite underground stormwater retention. Available in sizes from 600 to 50,000 gallons, Large Tank Cisterns offer the flexibility to meet any project need and tie in well with other project site pluming designs.