LiveRoof®, LLC and Riverbend Nursery, Inc., announced that the LiveRoof Hybrid Green Roof System has been chosen for five new green roof projects in North Carolina.
Designing an addition to any Frank Lloyd Wright building is a daunting architectural challenge. So when a 7,000-square-foot green roof was installed on a 20,000-square-foot addition to the First Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Wis., it took a joint effort by a Wisconsin-based architecture firm and a Michigan-based horticultural company.
When Tremco Incorporated decided to renovate its Beachwood, Ohio, company headquarters from top to bottom, the construction materials and services company knew there was a wealth of internal expertise they could tap into.
GAF has announced an update of its GAF Green Central microsite — the destination for sustainability information on all the company’s product lines including; roofing, roofing accessories, ventilation products and siding.
On May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kan., was hit by an EF5 tornado that ripped a 1.7-mile path of destruction through the town of about 800 residents. With winds that reached 205 miles per hour, the strongest tornado to hit the U.S. in eight years killed 11 people.
When the City of Minneapolis needed to replace
the nearly two-decades-old roof of the Target
Center, the Upper
Midwest’s premier entertainment facility, it took a decidedly
progressive approach.
The National Great Rivers Research and Education
Center serves as both a museum and a scientific research facility for
individuals interested in how the ecosystem functions at the confluence of the
Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers.
Guided by its Quaker values, the prestigious Sidwell Friends School is committed to practicing responsible environmental stewardship. Sidwell’s Middle School Building is the first K-12 school in the United States to earn a LEED Platinum rating and the first-ever LEED Platinum building constructed in Washington, D.C.
Vegetative and photovoltaic (PV) systems have yet to dominate Kansas’ roofing landscape, and that’s just fine with the owners of Diamond Roofing in Manhattan and Dodge City, Kan.
