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Newly renovated Milwaukee Art Museum installs a green roof as part of important renovation and reinstallation project
The newly renovated Milwaukee Art Museum is drawing rave reviews for the art on the walls, but most patrons don’t realize they’re also enjoying a cutting-edge redesign of what’s right over their heads – a 3,840 square foot green roof. The new LiveRoof® Hybrid Green Roof System was installed [...]
LiveRoof Living Roof Helps Bridgepoint Health Win International Award
Bridgepoint Active Healthcare was awarded a 2016 Civic Trust Award from the UK based built environment awards program. The LiveRoof green roof was highlighted as one of the key factors in selecting Bridgepoint for the award. In addition to the vegetated roof, a meditative labyrinth, a therapy pool, and [...]
101 Seaport’s Sweeping Views Include LiveRoof Green Roof
As the long-anticipated 101 Seaport – a 17-story, 440,000 square-foot office building– nears completion, it’s being topped off with 5,000 square feet of LiveRoof living roof. Skanska USA has made sustainability a key building feature by reducing energy and water use. The vegetative roof will reduce the need for [...]
Georgia Heights Collegiate Housing Opens as a Model of Eco Responsibility
What once was a hot surface parking lot in downtown Athens, Georgia, is now the environmentally responsive Georgia Heights collegiate housing community. EdR, one of the largest developers, owners and managers of high quality collegiate housing, has thoughtfully designed and engineered the recently opened Georgia Heights to be an [...]
LiveRoof® Hybrid Green Roof Installed by BGSU’s Campus Sustainability on Bike Shelters, Carillion Dining Center to Manage Stormwater, Support Reduce Carbon Footprint
Bowling Green State University’s Office of Campus Sustainability has used a $50,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Education Fund (OEEF) to purchase bicycle shelters featuring LiveRoof brand living roofs. These shelters add more green space to the increasingly sustainable campus, where the Carillion Dining Center was [...]
New Green Roof Makes Big News in Moorestown New Jersey
A team of volunteers recently installed a green roof on the Moorestown Municipal Building in Moorestown, New Jersey. The green roof is part of the city's Sustainable Moorestown initiative which aims to promote social equity, economic vitality, and environmental quality. The team used a water resource grant from Rutgers University [...]
Splatsin Unveils Rooftop Meadow
Fulfilling a long-held dream of creating a new community centre, Splatsin carefully crafted a new three-story, 33,581 square-foot building to reflect its history and focus on the future by caring for the land. This summer, the building was topped off with a 24,200 square-foot lightweight-planted roof. The new Splatsin [...]
Port Imperial to Plant Rooftop of Second Condo Community
Next week, contractors will begin installation of a planted roof atop 1200 Avenue at Port Imperial. The 103-unit, seven-story building is part of the $2 billion master-planned Port Imperial South Community, located along the Hudson River. Lennar, owners of the previously-opened 1000 Avenue at Port Imperial and 1200 Avenue at [...]
New Humber River Hospital Showcases Sustainability, Incorporates a Planted Roof
When the Humber River Hospital opens its doors on October 18, the bar will be raised. North America’s first fully digital hospital will be “lean, green and digital,” according to Rueben Devlin, the President and CEO of Humber River. Three-quarters of in-hospital deliveries will be automated. The building will [...]
RL Stevenson Science Signature School Adds LiveRoof System to New Multipurpose Educational Building
A quest for science knowledge, fueled by New Day Work Project funds, will bring a new green roof to the multipurpose educational facility at the Robert L. Stevenson Science Signature Middle School, 1202 Prospect Street in Honolulu. The living roof installation begins tomorrow, Tuesday, September 15. The rooftop garden [...]
New Hanover County in North Carolina Installs First Green Roof
Contractors are putting finishing touches on New Hanover County's first green roof, located at 320 Chestnut Street in Wilmington, NC. As part of the major building renovation, New Hanover County chose to plant a roof garden to extend the usefulness of the new roof membrane, to provide natural cooling, and [...]
Green Roof Tops New Dealership of Fox Ford Lincoln of Chicago
On September 1, Fox Ford Lincoln's new Chicago dealership will start selling cars from underneath a green roof. The vegetative roof is one of many sustainable features incorporated into the building design by Gensler Architects, and the dealership has applied for LEED Gold Certification. The LiveRoof Lite system was chosen [...]