One-Acre Green Roof Raises the Bar  

A developer in East Whiteland, PA said he is going to create a one-acre "green roof" that will be the largest project of its kind in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The 71,000-square-foot retail/office complex will have about a 43,000-square-foot green roof. By way of comparison, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Southeast Regional Office in Norristown recently installed a 688-square-foot green roof, a Target store in downtown Chicago recently put in a 7,128-square-foot green roof and the Milwaukee Housing Authority recently added a 20,000-square-foot green roof. PA DEP’s Soil and Waterways Division says they are seeing a lot of new applications for developers interested in adding a green roof. According to DEP, ninety-five percent of storm events can be managed on the East Whiteland green roof.

Daily Local News Online 05/31/2005

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