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WorksheetsPlant Materials and Landscape Elements in Skyrise
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
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What is the definition of skyrise greenery?
Skyrise greenery has increasingly become an important component of sustainable urban development.
Skyrise greenery encompasses all greening at the building or other structures.
Skyrise greenery includes both rooftop greenery and vertical greenery.
All of the above.
What are the utmost concerns about skyrise greenery?
Make sure the structural loading is enough to hold the greenery on the building.
Make sure maintenance crew cannot access the utilities on the roof so that they cannot repair items that are out of order.
Make sure it is unsafe for users to be in the high-rise conditions.
Make sure flooding will happen.
Standards and guidelines put in place for Singapore's skyrise greenery are books that inform about:
Design for vegetables only
Design for safety on rooftop greenery
No need for water proofing layer
Allow root to penetrate through
Which one is a benefit to horizontal planes of skyrise greenery?
All answers stated below
Food production
Increase roof life
Add amenity value of green roofs
Which of the following is a fact about the benefit of insulation and energy efficiency of green roofs?
Green roofs increase heating and air-conditioning costs.
No shading of roof at all from plants.
Evaporative cooling from plants and the planting media.
None of the above.
Which of the following is a characteristic of the intensive rooftop greenery?
Not design for activities.
Vegetation media can only take shallow and lighweight soil depth.
Accessible and used as communal rooftop space.
None of the above.
Which of the following is true about extensive rooftop greenery?
Accessible to public.
Able to plant tall plants like trees and plams.
Requires more maintenance than intensive rooftop greenery.
Only can have a thinner and more lighweight vegetation support layer than that used for intensive rooftop greenery.
What is the function of filter sheet in the horizontal plan of skyrise greenery?
Prevents growing media from being washed away after rain.
To wrap plants for aesthetic purpose.
To waterproof concrete slab.
Prevents plants to grow well in skyrise greenery.
What is the function of drainage outlet in the typical planter on slab?
To cause flooding on the rooftop.
To enable plants to have sunlight.
To enable water to be discharge from rooftop that prevents flooding.
To cause loading problems in the planters in skyrise greenery.
