{"id":236,"date":"2011-11-23T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:20:29","slug":"place-bmping-peco-green-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"This Place Is BMPing: PECO Green Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each week, we profile a BMP\u2014short for Best Management Practices\u2014to demonstrate how local businesses, organizations and neighbors are helping to keep our streams and rivers clean by managing stormwater on their property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/peco_blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time next week, the 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/citiesalive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CitiesAlive<\/a> conference\u2014the only conference in North America devoted to the green roof and wall industry\u2014will kick off here in Philadelphia. So there&rsquo;s no better time to showcase the green roof atop the PECO building at 23rd and Market streets in Center City. At 45,000 square feet, it&rsquo;s the largest urban green roof installation on an existing building in Pennsylvania. The roof captures 60-70% of the estimated 1.5 million gallons of runoff from the building annually, and the vegetation consists mainly of hardy sedum varieties.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, photos and a video about the PECO green roof, check out the Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csc.temple.edu\/t-vssi\/BMPSurvey\/peco_roof.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project page<\/a> <em>(sorry, this content is no longer available).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time next week, the 2011 CitiesAlive conference\u2014the only conference in North America devoted to the green roof and wall industry\u2014will kick off here in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,44],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-event","tag-green-infrastructure","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This Place Is BMPing: PECO Green Roof","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["event","green infrastructure"],"dateCreated":"2011-11-23T16:56:00Z","datePublished":"2011-11-23T16:56:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-11T20:20:29Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"This Place Is BMPing: PECO Green Roof\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/place-bmping-peco-green-roof\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"event\",\"green infrastructure\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-11-23T16:56:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-23T16:56:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-11T20:20:29Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}