Malcolm X College Green Roof

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Malcolm x college green roof.

He is co chair of u s. A 1 acre green roof incorporates prairie and woodland plantings including 4 oak trees. The new malcolm x college has a cool student accessible green roof irrigated by a rainwater harvesting system. The new facility.

Hitchcock design group green roof installer. 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. Our customer leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on a chicago green roof project. Green building council s illinois higher education sub committee.

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. The former malcolm x college building was demolished to make way for the new blackhawks training center. 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. Prior to joining city colleges brophy worked for green roof solutions a leading distributer of american made green roofing components.

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 sgl leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on the project. To accomplish this they lifted the bark blower and bags of planting soil and mulching materials onto the rooftop then filled. Malcolm x city college.

The 3rd floor green roof is mxc s heart. Chicago s malcolm x college recently received leed gold certification from the u s. Moody nolan landscape architect. City colleges of chicago architect.