About
Molly Meyer, LLC is a vegetated green roofing design and consulting company, advising architects, contractors, and property owners on best practices for design, installation, and maintenance. Located in Chicago, we work on projects nationwide. Our mission is to provide long-lasting green roofs at reasonable budgets. We have worked on green roofs for every design goal, including extensive, intensive, vegetable gardens, terraces, sloped roofs, inverted roofs, and native systems. Molly Meyer, LLC is a certified Female Business Enterprise (FBE) with the state of Illinois and a member of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.
Molly Meyer, M.Sc, GRP, LEED Green Associate, is a vegetated green roof consultant and founded Molly Meyer, LLC in 2009. In 2007, she received a fellowship from the Robert Bosch Foundation to work in the vegetated green roofing industry in Germany. She installed all varieties of green roofs (including sloped, single-course extensive, multi-course extensive, intensive, and cold roofs), analyzed existing green roofs for maintenance issues, and executed technical design for basic to advanced green roof systems including wind uplift, drainage, irrigation, and sloped applications. She is bringing her unique and rich experience in the mature green roofing industry in Germany to the young green roofing industry in the U.S. Molly's construction work began in 2005 when she was an apprentice carpenter for general contractor Edifice Construction in Seattle. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems, with a focus in soil research, from Stanford University. She is originally from Indianapolis.
In 2007 and 2008, when Molly was in Germany, she did anything she could to visit as many green roofs as she could. From her analyses of countless existing green roofs, she developed an extensive database of knowledge on green roof maintenance issues. And, as evidenced in this tongue-in-cheek video that she made one day in her quest to find German green roofs, she didn't let anything stop her from getting there: