REMEDIATION OF A STRESSED GREEN ROOF
Recover worked with One Canal Apartment Group and Copley Wolff Design Group to remediate two green roofs on a multi-use building located at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway. The existing third-floor terrace and 13th-floor pool deck had seen massive plant die-offs due to an irrigation failure that left plants without water for an extended period.

As part of the remediation project, Recover’s field crew installed a new irrigation system in the nine mounded beds and replaced multiple sections of irrigation across the two roofs. After evaluating other areas of plant failure, we noticed that the mounded beds were being eroded by high winds and so we reduced the height of the mounded beds by removing geo-foam and soil media. After these initial updates, Recover replanted about 95% of the roof, which required manual soil and plant conveyance from the street-level through the building and up to the two roofs. The green roofs have now been restored to their original intention, providing habitat for birds, stormwater retention, and aesthetic appeal for building residents. Recover now manages plant and irrigation maintenance at One Canal to ensure dynamic plant care post-remediation.