ABSTRACT: Regarding green roofs, policies and encouragement strategies have been adopted for more than thirty years in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Canada, where there are supportive standards, guidelines and manuals. In Brazil, this issue is recent and several laws are being proposed in recent years, but they are superficial and do not show strong technical or scientific basis. This work aims to create the content of a manual, including design, construction and maintenance of green roofs systems for Brazilian cities, being Campo Grande, a city in Mato Grosso do Sul State, in Brazil, the study case. It is addressed to project designers, manufacturers, contractors and users, as a support for the implementation of constructive solutions. The city characteristics were described, the nomenclature of the material (guide or manual) was defined, and then Brazilian laws were evaluated, as well as guides and manuals in use. All the documents vary both in content and depth. Thus, it was defined the content of the manual proposed (script), that will be filled in the next step. The manual structure can be used in other sites with similar characteristics.
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