A partnership between Groundwork Sheffield, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and Sheffield City Council
Architect
Main Contractor
Groundwork Sheffield
Green Roof Contractor
Alumasc (Zinco) kindly provided the sedum blankets which made this initiative possible.
Type of Development
3 x existing bus shelters
Reason for Green Roof
To promote green roofs and highlight the potential for greening smaller scale roofs such as kennels, garages and sheds
Type of Roof
Perspex’s
Size of Green Roof
6m2 per Shelter
Details of Green Roof Element
Polyfelt blanket, overlain with 30-40mm sedum vegetation mats
Comments
Cool green roofs for the cities bus shelters was an initiative carried out by Groundwork Sheffield and Sheffield’s Green Roof Forum as part of a wider programme aimed at addressing the lack of green roofs across South Yorkshire. Bus shelters offer an ideal surface for greening, providing an attractive green space in our concrete dominated urban streets and offering much needed shade for waiting passengers. The living vegetation installed on the bus shelter is in a prime position to filter pollution and particulates from transport exhausts thereby protecting the health of waiting passengers. Greening of the bus shelters also highlights the value of integrating sustainable design and green travel in our attempts to reduce rates of climate change.
The greening of the bus shelters has been a huge success capturing the public’s imagination, promoting sustainable technology and adding to the city’s green network. As a result Groundwork Sheffield is currently campaigning for all of the city’s shelters to include living layers on their roofs, if successful this would equate to over 8000m2 of green space. Large scale greening of the Sheffield’s shelters has the potential to contribute towards addressing many of the social and environmental problems faced by city residents including lack of green space, poor air quality, poor water quality and flooding.
