ESCSI Weekly 23

The latest issue of Turf magazine included an article by Debbie Stringer on the application of #ESCS aggregate to stabilize and improve oxygen exchange and drainage of soil. The main characteristics of #ESCS are keeping rainfall onsite, reducing erosion, and enhancing plantings. Acting as a stormwater sponge addresses storms with increasing intensity and frequency due to climate change. Please read it here: <https://lnkd.in/gEs35Br5>.

Deborah Stringer has worked for Carolina Stalite Company in Salisbury, NC for 24 years, representing ESCS primarily for the landscape, stormwater, and filtration industries. She received her horticulture degree at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, NC. As a horticulturist and stormwater professional, she has worked in the Green Industry for 35 years. For more on Stalite, visit stalite.com.

Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute has a dedicated page to green roof and horticulture applications of #ESCS: <https://www.escsi.org/green-roof-and-horticulture/>. This page offers featured projects, technical documents, the latest papers, and a runner on sustainable site development using #ESCS.

Application of #ESCS in green site developments follows national and international standards and is a recognized sustainable task by rating systems. See the ASCE paper <https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784483879.008> and the accompanied video presentation for more information <https://www.morressier.com/o/event/63208d58cb3e8e001271fcc3/article/6321e2e2f30377bc3baf6675?contentLibrary=ASCE&contentLibraryTitle=American%20Society%20of%20Civil%20Engineers%20(ASCE)&from=/library/ASCE/research>.

• Mohammad Ali Dastan Diznab and Fariborz M. Tehrani. 2022. Mapping Standards and Rating Measures of Structural Green Roofs for Socio-Environmental Life Cycle Assessments Using Envision. In Proc. International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) 2021, Leveraging Sustainable Infrastructure for Resilient Communities. pp. 82-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483879.008.