National Audio- Visual Conservation Center Culpeper, VA
Providing green roof media for over 20 years with over 600 green roof projects covering well over two million square feet supporting healthy plants .
INTENSIVE, EXTENSIVE, LAWN, and MEDIA for ROOFTOP STORMWATER Applications
Benefits of Stalite Expanded Slate based Green Roof Media
Porous for additional storage and retention capacity to reduce runoff and water needs
CEC greater than 12 me/100g increases filtration and nutrient retention; also reduces organic needs in media
High permeability with moisture retention for consistent hydro-conductivity
Deep aeration for roots and beneficial microbes
pH Balanced
Meets FLL Guidelines
Available in bulk or super sacks , can be blown into place
Qualifies for LEED® Pre-Consumer Recycled Product
Won’t clog filter fabrics.
20 year track record
Quality components include: Graded Stalite expanded slate, USGA rootzone sand, aged pine bark fines and only certified compost, NO sewage sludge, NO biosolids or manures.
Since 1992 STALITE-Enviromental has been supplying the green-roof industry with the most specified and successful green roof growing media in the United States. Included are some of the most prestigious award winning green roofs in America. High profile projects include: Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Truck Plant in Dearborn MI, the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Nashville Public Square, Lowes Corporate Headquarters in Charlotte NC, High Tech Center in Farrington WV, ASLA Headquarters, Coastguard Headquarters, National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Asian Trail at the National Zoo in Washington DC. University green roofs include The U.S. Navel Academy University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, MIT, University of South Carolina ,NC State University, Duke University , Appalachian State, and the Universities of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Asheville.
FEATURED ARTICLE:
The Dirt on Green Roofs – Meeting Design Challenges with ESCS Lightweight Aggregate
by Chuck Friedrich, RLA, GRP and Scott Jenson, GRP