Award Winner Overviews

Date: 5 June 2003
Source: Glass Digest Magazine

Date: 5 June 2003

Retrofit Extensive Award - Montgomery Park Business Center, Baltimore, Md. With 1.3 million square feet, this large-scale adaptive re-use of the Montgomery Ward Catalog Warehouse, built in 1975, contains an extensive 30,000-square-foot green roof completed in 2002.

New Extensive Award - Gap Inc. 901 Cherry Offices, San Bruno, Calif.The GAP Inc offices blend into a steeply sloping savanna foothill site. The 69,000-square-foot GR with native grasses and wildflowers is a defining sustainable design feature. The roof mass and plantings provide an acoustic barrier from the adjacent San Francisco airport air traffic.

Retrofit Intensive Award - Garden Room, Shorewood, Wisc. Atop a rehabilitated retail store, this 1,900-square-foot GR occupies half the roof area and is planted with a wide range of hardy native and non-native perennials, vines, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Designed as a true garden in the city, it is used for merchandise displays and educating consumers about hardy urban plants. The design overcame structural loading challenges and the need to anchor fencing and other features to the roof.

New Construction Intensive Award - Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters and Oak Hammock Marsh, Interpretive Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two green roofs totaling 28,190 square feet help the 54,000-square-foot, two story , concrete frame building blend into the internationally designated wetland marsh and prairie surrounding it.

Retrofit Combination Intensive/Extensive Award - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Green Roof Demonstration Garden, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, Ill. The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum project provides an opportunity for plant survivability research and sets the stage for additional green roof work at the museum. It is directly visible by visitors from a number of vantage points within the museum. The 2,400-square-foot installation has four progressively thicker green roof systems on its 200-foot length and is designed in harmony with the existing architecture. Also used are a drip irrigation system and a solar water re-circulating pump.
600450 Award Winner Overviews glassonweb.com

See more news about:

Others also read

MORE...

Emirates Glass wins major deals
Local quality glass producer Emirates Glass Limited has won contracts to supply 68,000 square metres of its high quality EmiCool glass to five major projects in Dubai.
Southwall Technologies Secures New Bank Loan and Equity Financing Agreement Led by Needham & Company
Southwall Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:SWTX), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of thin-film coatings for the electronic display, automotive glass and architectural markets, today announced that on Dec. 18, 2003, it secured an agreement for a new bank loan guarantee and equity financing package of up to $7.5 million from Needham & Company, Inc., its affiliates and Dolphin Asset Management.
KUB accepts Nippon Sheet Glass offer
KUB Malaysia Bhd has accepted an offer from Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd (NSG) to acquire its 15% stake in Malaysian Sheet Glass Bhd (MSG) for RM32.6 million in cash, or RM2.68 per share.
Micro-Tek Canada, Inc. and Co-Ventures in Glass Containers, Ltd.
Co-Ventures in Glass Containers (CVIGC, Ltd.) of Tampa, Florida, USA and Micro-Tek Canada, Inc. Of Toronto, Canada are excited to announce the beginning of a long term joint venture to combine their extensive experiences and resources to offer the Glass Container Industry globally a best value alternative for all their outsourcing needs in manufacturing, operations and technical assistance agreements, specifically targeted to the smaller manufacturers who have found the larger service companies to be cost and profit prohibitive.The principals of the two companies have found a global need for smaller glass companies who require excellent technical resources to properly compete within the industry without the high costs of employing their own staffs or outsourcing their requirements to the larger service companies whose own operating costs and overhead are substantial.
Autoglass maker dumps dumping charges
China's largest automobile glass maker Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co, Ltd, won its case against the dumping ruling of the US Department of Commerce (DOC).
History of Glass Wine Bottles
When did the wine industry start using glass bottles, and how did they settle on their current size of 750ml? For the answer to these questions, you have to go back in time - back thousands of years to when wine was first cultivated and enjoyed.

Add new comment