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Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Biggest Hospital in North America to Feature a Green Roof with Medicinal Herbs

Cannon Design, NIPPaysage, Montreal CHUM hospital, green roof building, LEED Silver hospital, ecological design, large scale green project, medicinal herb roof, energy conservation


By 2018, the Montreal skyline will feature a bit more greenery. This isn’t because buildings are being torn down and trees planted, however, but because one of the biggest construction projects ever undertaken in the city will have seven different green roofs. It’s called CHUM (an acronym for Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, and pronounced “shoom”), and by the time the rooftop gardens are completed, it will be the largest hospital facility anywhere in North America.




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