From a makeshift Quidditch arena; to the location of fundraisers and festivals; to a place to study, chat or just hangout, Salisbury University’s campus lawns serve thousands of students daily during the semester.
A new “lawn” recently planted in connection with SU’s Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons (GAC) will benefit students, as well — though most will never see it, and even fewer will ever set foot on it.
Crews from Green Roof Outfitters of Charleston, SC, recently spent a week at SU to install the GAC’s green roof, a 20,000-square-foot “lawn” atop the building, comprised of a regional blend of plants.
Sitting on a rubber liner in thousands of one-foot-by-two-foot plastic trays, the plants cover a majority of the roof. While rooftop gardens are not new at SU — University Dining Services unveiled an herb garden atop the Commons dining hall in 2013 — the functionality of the GAC’s green roof is unique among SU buildings.
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8 comments:
Why did they do this ? WTF , what a waste of money , what 's the purpose ?
What's the maintenance cost? WTF . Educated morons!
It is fun to spend other people's money.
Only liberals can invent ways like this to waste money.
Why did they have to get someone out of Charleston, SC to do this green grass on the roof thing? This has got to be one of the most stupid things they have done lately.
Talk about crapping up a perfectly decent looking building. I tell you may be able to take them out of the trailer park but the bad taste will follow them forever.
They have plenty of tax payer funds to waste...keep working slaves.
"attractive nuisance" just like a swimming pool. Next will come the lawsuit for not preventing the drunk college student from falling out of the rooftop "park" and killing himself.
The new Bennett Middle school has a green roof.
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