Malcolm X College Green Roof

Green roof 127 spot parking lot and space reserved for 26 bicycles.

Malcolm x college green roof.

The new malcolm x college has a cool student accessible green roof irrigated by a rainwater harvesting system. Speedy gonzalez landscaping system. Malcolm x city college. Prior to joining city colleges brophy worked for green roof solutions a leading distributer of american made green roofing components.

Chicago s malcolm x college recently received leed gold certification from the u s. 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. The bb5 filled the many installed green roof planter components.

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. 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. Green building council s illinois higher education sub committee. Moody nolan landscape architect.

A 1 acre green roof incorporates prairie and woodland plantings including 4 oak trees. 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. City colleges of chicago architect.

He has also worked for i go car sharing and was a consultant with allcell technologies. He is co chair of u s. Hitchcock design group green roof installer. Our customer leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on a chicago green roof project.