Malcolm X College Green Roof

Our customer leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on a chicago green roof project.

Malcolm x college green roof.

Green building council s illinois higher education sub committee. He has also worked for i go car sharing and was a consultant with allcell technologies. Malcolm x city college. Chicago s malcolm x college recently received leed gold certification from the u s.

The bb5 filled the many installed green roof planter components. 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. The 3rd floor green roof is mxc s heart. 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 new malcolm x college has a cool student accessible green roof irrigated by a rainwater harvesting system. Hitchcock design group green roof installer. The former malcolm x college building was demolished to make way for the new blackhawks training center. Our customer sgl leveraged the finn bb5 bark blower from our rental fleet on the project.

City colleges of chicago architect. 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. He is co chair of u s. Prior to joining city colleges brophy worked for green roof solutions a leading distributer of american made green roofing components.

A 1 acre green roof incorporates prairie and woodland plantings including 4 oak trees. Moody nolan landscape architect. To accomplish this they lifted the bark blower and bags of planting soil and mulching materials onto the rooftop then filled. The new facility.