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A Baltimore roofing company wants to give away a “green” roof to a nonprofit looking to reduce its carbon footprint.
Cole Roofing has dubbed the promotion the “Green Roof Giveaway” and values it at $30,000, either in the form of solar panels or a vegetated roof, which Cole says are growing in popularity. Interested nonprofits can go to a website and upload a video or submit an essay explaining why a green roof would help them in their work. The deadline is Nov. 15.
Cole Roofing will determine the type of roof to install based on the structure of the nonprofit’s building.
The company says it has installed green roofs on the Natty Boh Tower, Roland Park Country School, the U.S. Tax Court Building in D.C. and the Denton Dining Hall at the University of Maryland‘s flagship College Park campus. Vegetated roof installations on Johns Hopkins Hospital and the new Paint Branch High School in Montgomery County are in the company’s project queue.
“Cole Roofing has always contributed to charities in the region, but we wanted to do something bigger that has a financial and environmental impact,” Vice President William Cole said in a statement. “We believe that the best way to do this is to do that we’re best at — building high-quality green roofing systems.”
