Green Roof Gis Building At Rit

The golisano institute for sustainability at the rochester institute of technology is located at 111 lomb memorial drive rochester ny 14623.

Green roof gis building at rit. Rit s gis was designed by fxfowle in collaboration with swbr. The design team sought to incorporate cutting edge green technology into every inch of the 84 000 sf building which houses specialized research labs student work areas classrooms and office suites. There is a combination of green roof systems on the walk out roof. Lechase construction company served as the design build team leader.

The present study applies a gis based mapping methodology to evaluate the spatial variation of urban green roof ecosystem services and priority green roofs in braunschweig germany. Four different categories of green roof uess were taken into account namely urban thermal climate air quality stormwater retention and biodiversity. An application system integration with basic function of the environmental effect assessment and energy saving on green roof was designed by the technology of gis and google earth. Green buildings rit recognizes the impacts that buildings and infrastructure can have on the environment and is committed to employing sustainable design and construction principles as the campus grows and changes.

The rochester institute of technology rit adds a highly sophisticated unique sustainable building with leed platinum certification for sustainable studies. Not only does this academic building utilize many sustainable systems it also has the ability to continuously monitor its own performance. At rit the gis building or the golisano institute for sustainability has risen to this challenge. Allowing engineers to check on the system and test new systems.

This unique feature not only looks nice it also improves indoor air quality for the building s occupants. As powerful mapping software google earth can provide satellite photos of three dimensional building roofs in big cities to gis system. See the project profile from swbr architects and the. Rit requires that all new buildings be certified to a minimum of leed silver.

Eight feet wide and almost four stories tall the green wall contains 1 776 plants. 26 on the third floor green roof terrace of the new building that will house the golisano institute for sustainability is designed to attract a steady stream of butterflies. The first is a lightweight extensive system containing sedums. Part of rochester s seneca park zoo butterfly beltway project begun in 2002 the rit garden is the 124th in a nine county area.