Three experimental green roof platforms (1 m × 2 m) with heated boxes and three identical bare roof platforms (without substrate, vegetation and other green roof layers) were equipped with thermocouples that continuously measured a vertical temperature profile through the roofs.
Physical properties were measured in a lab setting and all other metrics were taken from outdoor green roof platforms.
To quantify the effect that roof slope has on green roof stormwater retention, runoff was analyzed from 12 extensive green roof platforms constructed at four slopes (2%, 7%, 15%, and 25%).
For all but the slowest and lowest frequencies, line-of-site orientation is required, and performance is lowered by excessive foliage, sometimes requiring ungainly roof platforms to reach above the leaves.
CONAKRY, Guinea — The Club Obama does not look like much, just a square thatched-roof platform jutting out to the ocean where jembe music, beer and the young mix at the edge of the pungent Boulbinet fish market.
The houses were light structures on bamboo piles, and a relic of the communal house for men was sometimes found in the form of a roofed platform built at the end of the village street.
One of the more spectacular rites was cremation, which for the wealthy involved erecting a grand, roofed platform to host a sarcophagus for burning — an example of which is on display.
In the Oriente, traditional housing is constructed from palm trees and often consists of open-sided roofed platforms.
Work has also been undertaken to refurbish the main train shed roof and platforms, construct a new platform, a footbridge and subway.
The two small-size engines are different variants of the same 4-valve/cylinder, pent-roof design platform.
