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One of the most innovative — and largest — sustainable roofing projects currently under construction is the Music City Center, a massive, 1.2 million-square-foot conference and convention center taking shape in the heart of downtown Nashville. It is slated to open in early 2013.
Its iconic feature is a four-acre, sandwich-layered section of vegetative roof that mimics the rolling Tennessee hills. It can be seen from miles away from high-rise vantage points around Music City. A lush, grass-like, water-retaining plant called sedum — whose color changes with the season — is the “star” of this roof-top microclimate, as well as a key component of dedicated efforts to earn the facility Silver LEED® certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. But there is an under-the-scenes “player” that is quietly helping the roof get its place in the sun — and that is the roofing system’s inclusion of 1/4-inch and 1/2-inch DensDeck® and DensDeck Prime Roof Boards from Georgia-Pacific Gypsum.