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FRONT PAGE Press: "Green grows the new roof in a city first"

Posted November 1st, 2007 by director
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Green grows the new roof in a city first

Sedum spruces up redeveloped mule barn.

By KAT HUGHES of the Tribune’s staff

Published Thursday, November 1, 2007

Parker Eshelman photo Below, Eric Wesbury, left, and other workers install a LiveRoof system on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, which Columbia architect Brian Pape is redeveloping as the Warehouse Studios and Fay Street Lofts. The workers mount containers of sedum plants, above, on a reinforced roof that are intended to help cool the building and reduce runoff.

Four-hundred-fifty boxes filled with sprigs of red, yellow and green plants made history yesterday when a crane lifted them on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, making it Columbia’s first commercial building to boast a living green roof.

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