Potter League for Animals

Project Name: Potter League for Animals Year: 2008 Owner: Potter League for Animals Location: Middleton, RI, USA Building Type: Commercial Type: Extensive & Intensive System: Single Source Provider Size: 3000 sq.ft. Slope: 0% Access: Inaccessible, Private Submitted by: Debra J. White & Dustin Brackney Designers/Manufacturers of Record: Greenroof System: Roofscapes, Inc. Greenroof Contractor: Dustin Brackney, Apex Green Roofs Architect: ARQ Architects Landscape Design & Installation: Roofscapes and Sarnafil Waterproof Provider: Sika Sarnafil Waterproof Installer: Capeway Roofing General Contractor: Behan Brothers

Annually, the Potter League houses about 1,900 animals and provides pound services for Middletown, Newport and Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The center facilitates adoptions for 1,100 animals a year and returns 450 lost pets to their owners. The rooftop garden at the Potter League’s new shelter is Newport County’s first greenroof and the biggest component in the environmentally friendly facility. The building will be a registered LEED building with the U.S. Green Building Council. "The $7.5-million shelter is more than twice as large as the current shelter, at 19,500 square feet. The new building has a number of other “green” features, such as a focus on natural lighting and fresh air, recycled building materials, water conservation measures, a gravel parking lot to absorb runoff and a 15,000-gallon cistern to capture and treat runoff water so it can be reused to flush toilets and clean animals’ cages.

"Potter League officials said they chose to go green for the new shelter because its location, off Oliphant Lane, is on wetlands and close to Bailey Brook, which eventually feeds into North Easton’s Pond, a drinking-water source for Aquidneck Island," (Wims, 2008). The Potter League for Animals greenroof is located over the animal shelter and uses a Roofscapes, Inc. system, with Apex Green Roofs as the greenroof contractor. The roof was installed on September 25, 2008, and Dustin Brackney of Apex Green Roofs selected lavenders, alliums, sedums and grasses specifically for their tolerance to wind, heat and drought.

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The Potter League for Animals is located at Oliphant Lane Visit their website here. Read the The Providence Journal's "Potter League grows a greener animal shelter in Middletown" of September 26, 2008 by Meaghan Wims here. Learn about Apex Green Roofs in the Greenroof Directory here and Roofscapes, Inc. here.

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