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Each week you can expect to learn What’s New here on Greenroofs.com through our “This Week in Review” video. Here’s the transcript for May 6, 2011 from our daughter, Anjuli – click on the photo below to see the video, or here. Enjoy!
– Hello, I’m Anjuli Velazquez and welcome to This Week in Review for May 6th, 2011, on GreenroofsTV.
– Our project of the week is the Growing Up – also known as 131 Queen Street – greenroof built in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne’s skyline is now a little greener with the completion of the world’s first fully-funded, competition-designed, retrofitted green roof. The Growing Up project was launched to retrofit a green roof on a Central Business District building and to demonstrate the environmental and social benefits of green roofs on city buildings. BENT Architecture won the design competition established for the project, and the 10-story office building at 131 Queen Street was chosen as the site. KHD Landscape Engineering Solutions and Green Roof Technologies were involved in creating the green space as part of the $300,000 project, working together to provide end-to-end design, construction and maintenance services for green roofs. The Growing Up project won the Melbourne Design Award for Commercial Architecture for 2010.
– To learn more about the Growing Up (131 Queen Street) greenroof, click on our project of the week photo on our homepage.
– “What’s New“
– Advertiser Press Release: LiveRoof ® Adds [a] New Regional Sales Representative in Florida.
– The Winner of our 2011 “Love the Earth, Plant a Roof!” Earth Day Photo Contest is the Aqua in Chicago, Illinois! Congrats to Linda Smith from Barrett Company who submitted this lovely project which received the most votes from all the entries! You can learn all about the Aqua at the Sky Gardens Blog.
– Read Haven Kiers‘ latest Sky Gardens post “American Institute of Architects Select their 2011 COTE (coat) Top Ten Green Projects.” Now in its 15th year, the AIA and its Committee on the Environment, or COTE, have once again selected their top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. See the three great 2011 Top Ten Award Winners that have incorporated greenroofs into their design.
– Speaking of Sky Gardens, make sure to catch up on all of Linda’s latest posts: “GPW: Growing Up (131 Queen Street),” “The Winner of our 2011 “˜Love the Earth, Plant a Roof!’ Earth Day Photo Contest Is…,” and last week’s script for “Greenroofs.com’s “˜This Week in Review’ on GreenroofsTV.”
– There is a New Sustainable Design 101 resource available for students and teachers from the American Society of Landscape Architects. In addition to the animations, the resource now includes 20 case studies of sustainable projects of all sizes, including master plans, university campuses, urban farms, backyards, and greenroofs!
– “Upcoming Events“
– May 10th-12th: is Garden+Landscaping Middle East in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
– And May 12th-14th: is the AIA 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. Don’t miss exhibits from American Hydrotech, Bison Innovative Products, CETCO, Colbond, GreenGrid/Weston Solutions, LiveRoof, Sika Sarnafil, Tremco and ZinCo USA.
– For more Upcoming Events visit our homepage.
– “In the News“
– Tafline Laylin of Inhabitat.com says “It’s Always Play Time at Henning Larsen’s Beautiful Green-Roofed Day Care Center in Denmark.” Its tall windows let in lots of light while a special climate zone allows the children to play without gloves despite the cruel winters. Wedged into a hillside, this building keeps energy consumption to a minimum and also features a small herb and vegetable garden for the kids. As usual, Inhabitat has more stunning photos, so go to the article and browse their gallery.
– Another article with beautiful pictures is “House Ocho with a Lively Green Roof.” Preston Koerner of Jetson Green talks about this project in Carmel, California designed by Feldman Architecture, whose most notable detail is its dynamic greenroof that blends in with the hillside of the Santa Lucia Mountains. House Ocho has additional green aspects which include the integrated photovoltaic skylights, custom windows to optimize passive solar heating, thermal mass in the form of concrete floors, radiant heat floors, recycled denim insulation, and sustainably harvested wood floors. You can read more about this project in our Greenroof & Greenwall Projects Database at the link below (http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=1116) or just type in Project ID # 1116 on the Projects Database search screen under Keyword.
– To learn more about these stories and new ones posted daily, go to our In the News or newslinks section of our website.
– Have something you think we should know about and post on our website? You can send us your green articles, videos and images to editor@greenroofs.com.
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– This has been This Week in Review for May 6th, 2011 on GreenroofsTV. I’m Anjuli Velazquez and I’ll see you next week!
*This week’s episode is sponsored by The Greenroof Directory, brought to you by Greenroofs.com.*
Did we miss something? We’d love to hear from you!
~ Linda V.
