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The Roof. The $1.5 million, 38,800 square foot Chicago City Hall Green Roof project began in 1998 with a year of planning, designing, contracting and bidding. Construction started in April 2000 and was completed a year later. City Hall’s exiting BUR system was in place with a gravel surface, but in order to complete the green roof, contractor ...
Jan 1, 2008 · The Chicago City Hall, an 11-storey classical revival building constructed in 1911, made a pioneering attempt in 2001 to retrofit a modern green roof (Dvorak & Carroll, 2008) (Table 1: Case 34). A ...
The result produced three City-wide geospatial datasets providing a snapshot of green roofs within the City limits. The results of the analysis include overall count of vegetated roofs and their total square footage. The study identified: 509 vegetated roofs within the City of Chicago. 5,564,412 square feet of green roof coverage.
Nov 29, 2012 · The Cook County Building and the Chicago City Hall are one and the same. ... when then-Mayor Richard Daley called for a green roof atop City Hall. The city planted 20,000 plants in 150 varieties ...
Sep 14, 2023 · Installed by Sika Sarnafil in 2000, Chicago City Hall’s green roof was a demonstration project for the city’s Urban Heat Island Initiative and served to test the overall effect of green roofs on temperature and air quality. Due to its success, green roofs have been adopted by other buildings throughout the city over the last two decades.
Oct 3, 2012 · This map and corresponding dataset provide the location, satellite images and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago. This information is derived from an analysis of high-spatial resolution (50cm), pan-sharpened, ortho-rectified, 8-band multi-spectral satellite images collected by Digital Globe’s Worldview-2 satellite. The City supplied the consultant with a 2009 ...
CITY HALL GREEN ROOF. Farr Associates provided construction administration for the first government building in the U.S. to undertake a sustainability initiative of such a significant scope. The project was one of three national pilot projects sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The design includes over 150 species of native ...
