Riverside Medical Center Creates Eco-Friendly Green Roof as Part of Hospital’s New Expansion Project
Kankakee, Illinois-based Riverside Medical Center, http://www.RiversideMC.net, named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals four years in a row by Thomson Reuters, unveils the installation of a large eco-friendly Vegetative Living Green Roof System in celebration of the hospital’s commitment to environmental stewardship and the launch of the hospital’s East Tower. The planting system and vegetation on the living roofs act as insulation and will reduce heating and cooling costs by as much as 20%. The installation of this green roof at Riverside Medical Center provides patients, visitors and employees with an ever changing landscape canvas atop a rooftop space that was previously barren.
The living green roofs, that constitute the complete Vegetative Living Green Roof System, are nestled in the hospital’s new East Tower, which is the largest addition in the history of the hospital with 160,000 square feet of new space which will include 12 newly designed, highly advanced operating rooms, seven richly appointed labor, delivery and recovery rooms, one dedicated C-section operating room, 18 new high-tech private ICU rooms, 23 family centered private rooms, and additional support space.
