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comment Nashville Public Square project wins green roof award
The 7.5-acre Nashville Public Square project, which remade a parking lot across from Nashville’s Metro Courthouse, was honored with the Green Roof Award of Excellence in June 2007 from the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities organization.
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The Nashville green roof, which only occupies 2.25 acres of the project, tops a 5-story subterranean parking garage built to replace the existing surface parking lot. The project also captures all site rainwater and stores it in a 57,000-gallon below-grade tank to use for on-site landscape irrigation.
The project was designed by landscape architects at Philadelphia-based Wallace Roberts & Todd and at Nashville’s Hawkins Partners. Tuck Hinton Architects and Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon engineers, both of Nashville, were also involved in the project.
More information on the project, and green roofs, is available at:
http://www.greenroofs.org/minneapolis/index.php?page=nashpublicsquarewin
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