Augsburg, Germany
City population: 264467
Duration: 2013 – 2013
Implementation status: Completed
Scale: Sub-microscale: Street scale (including buildings)
Project area: 370 m2
Type of area: Building
Last updated: October 2021

A roof garden of about 370 square meters was built on the new building of the Diakonissenklinik in the course of the general renovation. The new intensive greening of the roof can be seen from many hospital wards and serves as an additional recreation facility for its patients (Ref. 1).

Green Roof of the Diakonissen Klinik Augsburg
Green Roof of the Diakonissen Klinik Augsburg
Gunter Mann (Optigrün), retrieved 09/04/2018

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green roofs

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
  • Health and well-being (SDG 3)
  • Creation of opportunities for recreation

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

1. Aesthetic improvement of the clinic building (Ref. 1) 2. Improvement of living and working conditions of patients and doctors (Ref. 1) 3. Creation of a recreational facility for clinic's patients (Ref. 1) 4. Increase of biodiversity (Ref. 1)

Implementation activities

1. Total area of 370 m² of new green space installed (1) 2. Walkways and benches installed (1) 3. Rainwater storage. This type of Optigreen green roof retains ca. 60-70 % of annual rainfall. As a result, incidents caused by heavy rains are reduced by 50 – 100 % and water discharge to the sewer system is delayed (Ref. 6) 4. Improvement of the (micro-) climate through evaporation and transpiration. The retained rainwater evaporates and cools the surroundings (Ref. 6).

Climate-focused activities

Climate change adaptation:

  • Create or improve outdoor spaces to help people escape from urban heat

Main beneficiaries

  • Private sector/Corporate/Company
  • Other

Governance

Management set-up

  • Led by non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Non-government organisation/civil society

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

Building owner: Evangelische Diakonissenanstalt, Augsburg; Building Architect: Endres + Tiefenbacher, Augsburg; Landscape architect: R. Baldauf Landschaftsarchitekten, Neusäß; Roofing: Garden King, Adelsried; Green roof construction: Optigreen system solution "Garden roof"; Sealing: Bitumen; Roofing: Neuburg Construction Protection Albert Weber GmbH, Neuburg an der Kammel (Ref. 1)

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Yes (The nation-wide strategy "Building Green" encourages roof, facade and interior greening with a support of the association "Allianz Bauwerksbegrünung" (Ref. 3). The project of the Diakonissen Klinik was mentioned as an example in the strategy's project catalogue (Ref. 8).)
... a local policy or strategy? Unknown

Financing

Total cost

Unknown

Source(s) of funding

  • Private Foundation/Trust

Type of funding

  • Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Water management and blue areas
  • Improved stormwater management
  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area
  • Increased number of species present

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Social justice and cohesion
  • Improved liveability
  • Improved access to urban green space
  • Increased opportunities for social interaction
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Improved physical health
  • Gain in activities for recreation and exercise

Type of reported impacts

Achieved impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

1. BuGG Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e. V. (2015). Wirtschaftsgebäude Diakonissen Klinik Augsburg. Artenreicher Dachgarten ist FBB-Gründach des Jahres 2015. Available at: Source link (Document attached).
2. BuGG Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e. V. (2017). BAUWERKSBEGRÜNUNG. Available at: Source link (Accessed: November 3, 2020).
3. BuGG Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e. V. (2015). Bundesweite Strategie Gebäudegrün, Source link (Document Attached).
4. Optigreen Roof Greening (2014). Optigreen structure. Available at: Source link (Accessed: November 3, 2020).
5. Optigreen Roof Greening (n.d.). GARDEN ROOF SOLUTION: 0-5°. Available at: Source link (Accessed: November 3, 2020).
6. Optigreen Roof Greening (n.d.). Optigreen Technical Report. Available at: Source link (Accessed: November 3, 2020).
7. Optigreen Roof Greening (n.d.). INNOVATIVE RAINWATER MANAGEMENT: WEATHER APP CONTROLS DRAINAGE FROM GREEN ROOF. Available at: Source link (Website not available in 2020).
8. Optigreen Roof Greening (2015). DER DACHBEGRÜNER. Available at: Source link (Website not available in 2020).
9. Beschaffungsdienst GaLaBau (2015). Artenreicher Dachgarten ist FBB-Gründach des Jahres 2015. Available at: Source link (Accessed: November 3, 2020).
Green Roof of the Diakonissen Klinik Augsburg
Green Roof of the Diakonissen Klinik Augsburg
Gunter Mann (Optigrün), retrieved 09/04/2018