William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum

Project Name: William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum Year: 2007 Owner: The Clinton Foundation Location: Little Rock, AR, USA Building Type: Library Type: Extensive & Intensive System: Single Source Provider Size: 14000 sq.ft. Slope: 1% Access: Accessible, Private Submitted by: John Shepley, Green Roof Plants Designers/Manufacturers of Record: Greenroof System: TREMCO, Inc. Plant Supplier: Emory Knoll Farms/Green Roof Plants Plant Supplier: Saul Nurseries Landscape Architect: Heidi Natura, Living Habitats Plant Supplier: Good Earth Landscape Installer: Growild Horticulturalist: Mary Ann Uhlmann, TREMCO, Inc.

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library, a part of the National Archives, has been designated as one of the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly places to work in the United States by the U.S. Green Buildings Council. The 153,779 sq. ft., Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas is the first federal building to receive a platinum rating, the highest in the LEED for Existing Buildings (Clinton Library Press Release of 11.21.07). When it opened in 2004, the $165 million library complex earned a Silver LEED rating - the first presidential library to do so, and in early November, 2007, it received Platinum certification for existing buildings (LEED-EB) from the USGBC. The greenroof project was completed in late November, 2007. The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum is using the Tremco greenroofing system: The greenroof is 14,000 square feet over a section of library devoted to presidential artifacts which will double as a garden area for former President Clinton's personal office and residence. A little more than half the area will be covered with plants and grasses. Although only a portion of the roof will be greened initially, future plans include for the entire roof to have greenroofs. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing (Center) presented Tremco the Excellence in Design for Best Vegetated Roof award for the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum during the 2009 International Roofing Expo held in Las Vegas February 3-5, 2009.

More than 150 species are featured, including Arkansas bluestar, a perennial with needlelike leaves and blue flowers, and butterflyweed, a shrubby perennial with star-shaped orange flowers that attracts butterflies. Over 90 species of plants have been initially planted in approximately four truck loads of lightweight engineered growing media. And a special request for yellow roses has also been added for the former president, since it was a favorite of his mother, the late Virginia Kelley. All fertilizers are organic. The Associated Press, see below, reports: "Clinton — who has used his nonprofit foundation to promote sustainable development and environmentally friendly building practices — would like to see green roofs used nationwide. He recently announced a program through his foundation aimed at helping homeowners and commercial building owners modernize their buildings to reduce energy use. "When President Clinton built his library here, part of what he wanted was something that would serve as an example to others, both in design and architecture, but also in sustainability and its footprint and its coexistence with the city landscape," Clinton Foundation spokesman Jordan Johnson said." Over 100 people that include National Archives personnel, museum volunteers, and support staff work in the Clinton Library. The facility has seen over one million visitors since its opening in November 2004.

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The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum is located within the Clinton Presidential Center and Park. The Center also includes the Clinton Foundation (Little Rock office), the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Café42, and the Clinton Museum Store. Download the November 21, 2007 press release (PDF) from the Clinton Library here, and see the Associated Press article "Clinton Library Gets 'Green' Roof" by Andrew DeMillo of November 19, 2007 here. Learn more about the Clinton Foundation at: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/ and the Clinton Library at: http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/. Read about Emory Knoll Farms in The Greenroof Directory here, and to learn more about TREMCO, please see their color brochure.

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