Diseño de una cubierta vegetal que integra el compost generado en la cafetería de uno de los edificios de la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao

Resumen

The present work deals with the design and energetic study of a green roof for one of the buildings of the School of Engineering of Bilbao. Such cover would integrate the compost from the residues of the cafeteria at the same building. An extensive green roof that required little maintenance and no irrigation is suggested. Regarding energy, the results confirm that such green roof would have a positive effect in summer, especially when there was water at the cover. However, in winter the differences between a green cover and a simple cover would not be remarkable. The experience was spread along the university community through interviews, posters and surveys among the university community. Besides, it was also brought to the classroom as an exercise on the analysis of the carbon footprint and accomplished as a practice of high impact among students through a final degree project.