FORD’S LIVING ROOF
TEN YEARS IN, ROUGE CENTER EXPERIMENT HELPS CUT COSTS, SUPPORTS ROBUST ECOSYSTEM
Ten years post-installation, North America’s largest living roof – about the size of eight football fields – continues to flourish atop Dearborn Truck Plant’s final assembly building, part of the Ford Rouge Center.
Various plants, insects and animals have come to depend on what is now a thriving ecosystem that equates to a 10.4-acre garden.
The living roof also serves as a cost-effective alternative to roof maintenance for Ford, while keeping heating and cooling costs in check for the factory underneath. But the roof isn’t the whole story – it’s just the beginning.
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