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GRHC Media Release
Stunning green roof on the new California Academy of Sciences building and Vancouver Aquarium green wall among this year’s winners of GRHC’s Awards of Excellence design awards.
TORONTO, CANADA (May 7, 2008): Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) is pleased to announce the seven project design winners of its annual Awards of Excellence - a program showcasing the extraordinary vision and leadership of forward-thinking green roof and wall project design teams:
- The Residences at 900 North Michigan Ave. in Chicago, IL. – Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, LLC (Intensive Green Roof - Residential Category)
- West Podium Park, Boston World Trade Center in Boston, MA. - Roofscapes, Inc. (Intensive Green Roof Industrial/Commercial Category)
- Austin City Hall in Austin, TX - McKinney Kelley JV Landscape Architects (Intensive Green Roof – Institutional Category)
- Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver, B.C.– Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture Inc. (Green Wall Design Category)
- 909 Walnut Fidelity Tower Building in Kansas City, MO – Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (Extensive Green Roof – Residential Category)
- TWA Corporate Headquarters Building in Kansas City, MO – el dorado inc. (Extensive Green Roof - Industrial Commercial Category)
- California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA – Rana Creek Living Architecture (Extensive Green Roof-Institutional Category)
(click on this link to read the whole story)
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greengridroofs.com - Smart Home: Green + Wired - Press Release
Roofing Systems from Mule-Hide® Products Co. Inc., Weston Solutions Inc. and American Construction Metals to Top Museum of Science and Industry Exhibit
“Smart Home: Green + Wired” Exhibit to Highlight New Directions in Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Living
Chicago, IL – May 9, 2008—A new exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry will be topped by energy-efficient, environmentally friendly roofing systems from Mule-Hide® Products Co. Inc., Weston Solutions Inc. (Weston®), and American Construction Metals (ACM).
The roof is being installed on a fully functioning, three-story modular and sustainable “green” home being built in on the Museum grounds located at 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
The home will be the centerpiece of an exhibit titled Smart Home: Green + Wired, Powered by ComEd and Warmed by People’s Gas. The exhibit will be open May 8, 2008 – Jan. 4, 2009.
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GRHC Media Release
Baltimore, Chicago, Wilmington, Washington and Philadelphia among the leaders in this year’s - Top 10 List of U.S. Cities - for most green roofs installed.
TORONTO - April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Call it a gift for the earth: just in time for Earth Day. Last year, 30 percent more green roofs were installed in North America – and that means more beautiful rooftops, cleaner air, cooler cities, reduced energy consumption, less untreated stormwater running into our rivers and streams, and more green spaces for people, plants and animals.
This good news comes from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities’ 3rd Annual Green Roof Market Industry Survey of its’ corporate members and represents a five percent increase over last year’s annual market growth rate of 25 percent. The survey is based on square footage of green roof projects installed by GRHC’s corporate members in 2007.
Click here to read the whole of the above press release
Click on the links below to learn more about high scoring cities in the survey:
NEW - Chicago, Il. No. 1 On Top 10 List Of Green Roof Cities For 4th Time
With more than half-a -million new square-feet of green roofs installed in 2007, Chicago leads in becoming the greenest City in America. “Cities are no longer the enemies of the natural environment,” says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley of the news.
Wilmington, DE Makes No. 2 On Top 10 List Of Green Roof Cities
With nearly 196,000 new square-feet of green roofs installed in 2007, Wilmington beats Baltimore – the co-host city for next week’s major international green roof and wall conference.
Washington, DC Makes Top 10 List Of U.S. Green Roof Cities
More than 55,000 new square-feet of green roofs installed in 2007 places Washington, DC at No. 7 on annual list, its second time in the Top 10.
Philadelphia, PA Makes Top 10 List Of U.S. Green Roof Cities
Nearly 47,000 new square-feet of green roofs installed in 2007 places Philly at No. 8 on annual list joining Chicago, Wilmington, DE, Brooklyn and Baltimore, MD.
Toronto Makes Number 1 On Top 10 List Of Canadian Green Roof Cities For 2007
With more than 83,000 square feet of new green roofs installed, Toronto leads the 3rd annual Top 10 List of Green Roof Cities followed by Calgary and Quebec City.
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nytimes.com - Green Anchors LIVING ROOMS TAKE ON LUSH NEW MEANING - BY MELISSA FELDMAN
How does your garden grow? These days it's up: green walls are all the rage. The Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester recently opened a store in Seoul, South Korea, whose inner stairway and outer walls are covered in mossy Pachysandra terminalis. Broadway East, an edgy organic restaurant on the border of New York’s Chinatown, has a garden wall in its dining room — the perfect backdrop for eating shojin salad. And a 30-foot-high wall of Dryopteris dilatata and Polystichum polyblepharum (ferns) provided a foil for the floral frocks in Stella McCartney’s spring show....
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treehugger.com - 2008 Award-Winning Green Roofs and Walls - by Lloyd Alter
The Green Roofs for Healthy Cities convention in Baltimore ended with the Awards of Excellence, with seven categories of roof and wall. Green walls are growing like mad, probably because they are visible where a green roof often isn't. Randy Sharp's living wall at the Vancouver Aquarium won for Green Wall Design. It is a modular system that gives new meaning to the phrase "plug-and-pray"- fifteen plant species were tested to find eight that were local and hardy enough to withstand the freeze-thaw cycle. It has an automatic drip-irrigation system using stored rainwater.
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thisislondon.co.uk - City cricketers reach a new high - Mark Prigg
On a rooftop high above the City, the capital's largest eco-friendly roof was unveiled today with a gentle few overs of the traditional summer sport.
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wgrz.com - Fox Tire Goes Green - by: Andy Parker
Now after a good amount of prep work the finishing touches are being added to what will become one of Buffalo's greenest roofs.
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towncrieronline.ca - Great green ideas from conservation fair - By Kris Scheuer
Snow and freezing rain didn’t deter over 100 Forest Hill residents from warming up to climate change solutions at a March 25 conservation fair.
The event held at Rosary Parish Hall was a chance to hear about everything from solar panels and tree tours to garages with grass roofs and environmentally friendly renovations.
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werf.org - New Research to Highlight Decentralized Stormwater Management Techniques - Request for Proposals
(ALEXANDRIA, VA) The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) is requesting proposals for research that will provide education, outreach, and training on decentralized stormwater management techniques to critical target audiences in order to...
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checkerspotmagazine.ca - The Height of Cool - By Katharine Vansittart
Like a bird’s nest in spring, you can’t usually see green roofs from the ground. Just knowing that they’re up there, though, doing their bit to beautify the urban jungle and benefit us in all kinds of unseen ways helps us breathe a little easier — figuratively and literally. Despite the apparent whimsy of green-roof technology, it offers a hopeful new urban frontier, capable of limiting the harmful effects of everything from air and water pollution to climate change and loss of biodiversity.
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CMHC newsletter- Research on Green Rooftops and Walls in Québec City (.pdf) - Research Highlight
Vivre en ville is a non-profit organization which promotes sustainable communities. After touring successful green roof installations in Europe and North America, Vivre en ville undertook a green roof and green wall research and demonstration project in Québec City. The purpose of the study was to better understand the positive impacts of these two techniques, such as increased energy efficiency, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and stormwater management.
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tcudailyskiff.com - Fort Worth looks for ways to go green - Ashleigh Whaley
On April 11, the University of Texas at Arlington installed 1,000 square feet of soil and plants to the roof of the Life Science Building. This summer, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas will continue making plans to install what its director of development, Cleve Lancaster, says will be "one of the largest examples of green roof in North Texas" at BRIT's future headquarters next to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.
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stltoday.com - SWT DESIGN, INC. HONORED AT ASLA CENTRAL STATES CONFERENCE - Press Release
"....The most notable landscape feature is the extensive green roof system. The building's sloping roof provides visitors with optimal viewing of the alpine habitat's variety of sedums, grasses, and perennials. A native, ledge-rock wall along the roof garden viewing area serves as an aesthetic barrier and adds additional alpine elements with drought-resistant native plants which require little maintenance and no irrigation...."
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dailyherald.com - Energy conservation hits the roof - By Gwen H. Jader
The roof can be a special place, a refuge from the hustle and bustle of the crowded city below. Increasingly, building owners are transforming these once little-noticed locations into gardens where their greenery can save some green, as well as help the environment.
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thebusinessledger.com - Rooftop gardens soar as high-level green space - Adam Terese, Contributing Writer
Pasque flowers, snowberry shrubs, Boston ivy and a prairie crabapple tree are just a few of the more than 20,000 plant species that sit 11 stories high in Chicago’s Loop.
The plants and grasses that make up the green space aren’t a park but a green roof built in 2000 on Chicago’s City Hall. Now, hundreds of building projects are underway in the city and its suburbs that will incorporate the vegetation-filled roofs.
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inhabitat.com - DINKINS GARDENS: Harlem’s First Affordable Green Housing - by Mike Chino
Dinkins Gardens utilizes an impressive array of forward-thinking green strategies to promote energy efficiency, conservation, and quality of life while taking advantage of the economic benefits of of green architecture to keep living costs down for residents. The structure is composed of nontoxic, recycled, and locally made materials and features south-facing solar shades and a green roof, both of which help regulate temperature. The roof also has a rainwater harvesting system that funnels water from the roof into storage tanks for the garden’s irrigation. Inside, efficient energy systems abound with copious use of natural daylighting, energy star rated appliances and light fixtures, and a high efficiency boiler.
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athleticturf.net - Baseball goes 'green' in the nation's capital - Ron Hall
One of the unique features of the landscaping contract (a design/build project) was the installation of a 6,300-sq.-ft. green roof within the confines of the Park. The incorporation of the green roof over the concession stands area is significant for several reasons, not the least being that it helped the sports facility to be the first of its kind in the United States to gain LEED certification from the U.S. Building Council (wwwl.usgbc.org). This is a remarkable achievement for a stadium, says Fritz.
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dcnonl.com - Subtle nuances may distinguish new sustainable roofing systems - PETER KENTER
The first step in sorting out roofing options requires the understanding of four basic terms: sustainable roofing, high-performance roofs, green roofs, and white or reflective roofs.
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boston.com - Hub firm honored for sustainable design - By Chris Reidy
A partial green roof manages storm water and lowers heating and cooling loads, and the building is oriented to the south to take advantage of daylight and passive solar heating opportunities, the firm said.
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southbendtribune.com - A different green for banks - HEIDI PRESCOTT
Miranda Murray, a South Bend mom who has worked at the bank for six years as the receptionist, is the first to admit employees didn't know much about green building certification in the early stages.
"We had been wondering who was going to cut the grass on the roof," Murray said, quickly noting how they've learned that the grass will remain so low it won't require cutting. "But everywhere you look here you see a way to care for the environment."
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Thanks to everyone who joined us in Baltimore
