Modular Living Roof

Modular living roof systems provide a complete pre-established extensive living roof in a modular cassette, combining excellent planting quality with simplicity of installation.

Axter’s Hydropack modular living roof system provides the perfect solution for low maintenance, simple to install green roofs. Hydropack comprises a unique patented cassette design, manufactured from recycled high density polypropylene (HDPE), combined with drainage granules, filtration layer, engineered growing substrate and established planting chosen to replicate a variety of environments.

Through its innovative design, Hydropack cassettes can retain up to 8 litres of rainwater per sqm, ensuring planting schemes have sufficient water reserves to sustain strong growth and continued establishment even during prolonged periods of dry weather. Hydropack's inbuilt reservoir also reduces dependency on high cost irrigation systems, particularly when installed on low slope or pitched roofs, which would ordinarily suffer from rapid drying, planting degradation and species death.

During heavy rainfall Hydropack effectively attenuates storm water, reducing and delaying rainwater run off, thus lessening the demand on the drainage system, reducing flooding and the impact of climate change. Hydropack cassettes are planted and cultivated at our specialist partner nursery for 12-18 months. Once the planting scheme has become established, the cassettes are carefully palletised and delivered directly to the specified project with full plant coverage.

The Hydropack modular cassette system is quick and simple to install, providing an immediate, visually impressive green roof. Once installed Hydropack living roof cassettes require no specialist maintenance for the first two years post installation, and only standard bi annual system inspection as recommended in Axter's living roof maintenance guide is necessary.