How we produce the Manteverde Maintenance Guides
Manteverde is software built for the firms that inspect and maintain green roofs and stormwater structures. The Manteverde Maintenance Guides are written for the owners of those firms and the people who work in them: green roof care and inspection; stormwater structures and their cleanouts; the rules, credits and deadlines that reach the properties they look after; and the agreements, reports and handovers behind the work.
Where the guides come from
We research each guide from primary sources: the laws, regulations and permits that set a maintenance duty, the published pages and forms of the city or agency that runs a programme, the standards bodies that publish rules for roofs, public tenders, and official statistics. We name each source where we use it and list it at the end of the guide, so you can check it yourself. When a source says “should”, we write “should”; a proposed rule is called proposed; and a rule that no longer applies is said to no longer apply.
Examples and worked records
Most guides follow an example: the owner of a maintenance firm, a client and a record, put together to show how a decision works. Unless a guide says it is about a real person who agreed to be named, that owner is not a real person, and the guide says so in its second paragraph, in words such as “Dana is not a real person. She, the office building and its record are an example built for this guide.” In a worked record, the column that holds the example’s entries is headed “(example)”, and the readings, dates and prices in it belong to the example. A figure that comes from a source is named with that source.
When an example follows one place’s rule, the guide says so early, says whose rule it is, and reminds you that a property somewhere else follows its own rule. Reading a guide in another language does not make its rule apply where you work.
How they are written
We use AI tools to help research and draft the guides. Before a guide goes live, we read it aloud, check every claim against its source and every figure against its table, and check it against our publishing standards.
We write each language edition for its own readers, with local units, currency, trade words and examples. We do not translate guides word for word.
Manteverde Editorial is the publisher byline for the guides. Where a named person has reviewed a guide, the guide says so.
Dates and updates
Every guide shows the date we published it. When we change a guide substantially, for example because a credit, a deadline, a form or a maintenance rule has changed, we also show the date of that update. Guides that depend on rules or prices carry a review date, so we know when to check them again.
Corrections
If a figure is wrong, a rule has changed or you think we have missed something, write to support@manteverde.com. We read every report and correct guides when they need it.
What the guides are not
The guides are general information for green roof and stormwater maintenance firms. They are not legal, engineering, tax or financial advice. They give no instructions for entering a vault or any other confined space, for working near a roof edge, for testing or repairing a waterproofing membrane, or for planting, irrigation or cleanout methods: those follow the rules where you work, the property’s own specification and the qualified people who carry out that work. They do not replace advice from a qualified professional or from the authority responsible for the properties you look after.
Inspections record what is observed on the day. Manteverde does not warranty or certify membrane integrity, structural condition or safe entry, and never files anything with a city or agency: reports are formatted for your client’s own submission.
Stormwater, building, work-at-height and confined-space rules differ from one country, state, province and city to another, and they change. The duties those rules set sit with the people they name, usually the property owner, and owners and maintenance firms remain responsible for meeting the stormwater, building and safety rules that apply where they work. Check the official sources we link before you act, and take professional advice where you need it.
We take reasonable care to keep the guides accurate, but we cannot guarantee that every guide is complete, error-free or current in every circumstance. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Manteverde is not liable for loss arising from reliance on the guides. Links to other websites are for reference, and we do not control those sites. References to Manteverde describe what the software was built to do. See also our Terms.