Malcolm X College Green Roof

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Malcolm x college green roof.

Several features aim to minimize the amount of energy consumed by the college including a series of green roofs a rain water harvesting system and white reflective membrane roofs that deflect sunlight and significantly reduce the energy load on the building. Two custom seating areas serve as outdoor classrooms with the balance of the area framed by seatwall planters and a mix of movable tables and chairs. Our customer leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on a chicago green roof project. Malcolm x city college.

He is co chair of u s. The bb5 filled the many installed green roof planter components. Green roof 127 spot parking lot and space reserved for 26 bicycles. Hitchcock design group green roof installer.

Prior to joining city colleges brophy worked for green roof solutions a leading distributer of american made green roofing components. The new facility. Some examples below include designs for a walkway through the olive harvey college wetland for students to better view the cattails and birds native to the wetland and an artist s rendering of a green roof on the new malcolm x college campus where trees will be planted to attract birds and milkweed will be grown to attract monarch butterflies. Our customer sgl leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on the project.

A 1 acre green roof incorporates prairie and woodland plantings including 4 oak trees. Green building council for its successful efforts to make the new building opened in january 2016 a sustainable addition to the community reports the weekly citizen. Speedy gonzalez landscaping system. To accomplish this they lifted the bark blower and bags of planting soil and mulching materials onto the rooftop then filled.

The 3rd floor green roof is mxc s heart. Green building council s illinois higher education sub committee. City colleges of chicago architect. The new malcolm x college has a cool student accessible green roof irrigated by a rainwater harvesting system.