Ford Dearborn Truck Plant Green Roof

The rouge green roof marked its official tenth anniversary in april 2013.

Ford dearborn truck plant green roof. Canada reopened 2009 820. Ford plans to resume production at it s hermosillo assembly plant on april 6 with one shift galhotra said. A green roof is a roof that is covered with plants rather than being traditional roofing material alone. First decided to install the green roof on the dearborn truck plant nearly two decades ago after taking a meeting with a man called william mcdonough.

Below left is a photo from the 1930 s of what the plant used to look like compared to the plant in july 2004 right. At the time green roofs were virtually unknown in north america. The river rouge plant also known as ford dearborn truck assembly plant won the 2004 green roofs for healthy cities award of excellence in the extensive industrial commercial category. The result is a factory.

This makes it the largest green roof on a single building in north america and one of the five largest in the world. In 1999 architect william mcdonough entered into an agreement with ford motor company to redesign its 85 year old 1 212 acre 490 ha rouge river facility. The roof of the 1 1 million square foot 100 000 m 2 dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres 4 0 ha of sedum a low growing groundcover the sedum retains and cleanses rainwater and moderates the internal. On april 14 ford plans to start building vehicles at.

Open ford f 150 originally called dearborn assembly plant until production changed over from mustang to f 150 in my2005. Ford duratec 23 river rouge plant dearborn stamping. Open 1 780 ford f 150 ford super duty f na dearborn truck. Five years ago ford called in acclaimed eco architect bill mcdonough to help with the redesign of their rouge plant in dearborn which now makes the f150 pick up truck.

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