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Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting |
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Short Profile of the Person:
Katrin Scholz-Barth is an internationally recognized expert in Green Roof technology. She received her Masters of Science in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Rostock, Germany in 1992 and has practiced for over 16 years in the United States of America.
Noticeable projects in the US include the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Charlotte, North Carolina, Queens Botanical Garden in New York, O’Hare Airport in Chicago, and the World Bank headquarter office in Washington, DC. Her work was recognized with a green roof award of excellence in 2003.
Ms. Scholz-Barth’s 16 years of experiences and expertise focus on sustainable buildings and landscapes, green infrastructure and low impact development for water conservation, energy efficiency, and air quality control – to reduce the ecological footprint of the built environment – subjects she has taught at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania and has presented at numerous international conferences.
Her book Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure, coauthored with Susan Weiler, was released by Wiley and Sons in April 2009.
Prior to starting her own business, she was Director of Sustainable Design for the HOK Planning Group, a business unit of Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum (HOK), the world’s largest architecture firm. Ms. Scholz-Barth practiced civil and environmental engineering in Minneapolis, Minnesota for seven years, where she gained extensive design expertise in constructed wetlands and in bio-remediation for wastewater treatment.
Ms. Scholz-Barth moved to Doha, Qatar in August 2008 and has since become the first president of SustainableQatar, an independent, volunteer-based organization of committed individuals to promote environmental awareness within the Qatar community. She is a member of the Qatar Green Building Council and a contributing author to the Qatar Better Building Guidelines by the UNESCO.
Short Profile of theCompany:
Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting provides consulting services for ecological site planning and site design to create functional, maintainable, cost effective, and beautiful landscapes for rainwater collection, bioretention, and biological wastewater treatment. Our expertise includes green roofs, low impact development, constructed wetlands, slope stabilization, and innovative permitting. Our mission is to reduce the environmental footprint of developments by reducing imperviousness and its consequences. Our primary goal is to protect and recharge local aquifers and waterways, reduce nutrient over-enrichment, sedimentation, and stream channel erosion.
Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting specializes in green roof technology, their applicability on various building types, their functionality for water and air quality control and for energy efficiency.
We understand our role as the liaison between owner, planner, architect, landscape architect, and engineer. Our work demands a high degree of interaction across professional disciplines, regulatory agencies, and policy maker.
Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting provides services that range from design charretts to construction administration. Our designs strategies offer cost effective integration of green roofs into infrastructure planning and sustainable building practices. We use green roofs in combination with other low impact development strategies to reduce impervious surfaces and solar heat gain. We look beyond the conventional cost comparison between regular roofs versus green roofs. This tiered design approach of green roofs and low impact development strategies helps to reduce the need for costly infrastructure while utilizing onsite resources and thereby reducing costs to our clients. We assist our clients by leading permit negotiations with regulatory agencies.