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The West Podium Park at Pembroke Real Estate’s World Trade Center West in Boston received the 2008 Green Roof Award of Excellence from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.  Designed by Philadelphia-based Roofscapes, Inc. and Pressley Associates, the park sits above a three-story, mixed-use podium, as well as part of the underground parking facility, and occupies the space between the adjacent World Trade Center West tower and the Seaport Hotel.  The green roof landscape is developed on two levels, each comprising about 50 percent of the total surface area.  The upper level is an un-irrigated extensive green roof and the lower level is an irrigated intensive landscape with more elaborate features.

Offering one of the best examples of integrating extensive and intensive green roof approaches in a single landscape, this project is noteworthy for two additional reasons: 1) it is the first project to be completed in the U.S. that utilizes pre-grown Sedum mats, and 2) it was the first project to utilize a network of buried ballasts to stabilize an extensive green roof in a high-wind velocity zone.  The combined extensive and intensive green roofs greatly reduce average annual runoff from the podium.

Completed in 2003, the three-story podium was one of the first buildings in the Boston area to incorporate an environmentally-conscious green roof.  It is part of an overall program for the World Trade Center West tower designed to meet the most stringent energy conservation standards.

The West Podium Park’s award was for the Intensive Industrial/Commercial category. Awards were celebrated and distributed at the Sixth Annual International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference’s awards luncheon, held on May 2^nd, 2008 in Baltimore.

About Pembroke Real Estate

Pembroke is the real estate investment and development advisor for Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest financial services organizations.  Backed by Fidelity’s capital, Pembroke and its affiliates specialize in the acquisition, design, development and management of signature properties in major metropolitan areas worldwide.  The firm currently manages more than 3 million square feet (300,000 square meters) of commercial and residential space in London, Tokyo, Paris, Brussels, Boston and Washington, D.C.  Pembroke seeks high-quality, high-profile, well-located acquisition and development opportunities in the office, residential and multi-use sectors.  For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.pembrokere.com.

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