Roof goes green University's first green roof takes root at
Colburn Laboratory 8:41 a.m., June 6, 2011--The University of
Delaware’s first green roof, partially installed on Colburn
Laboratory two weeks ago, came about because Annette Shine and
her students were too hot to concentrate. Shine, an associate
professor of chemical engineering, used to teach in Room 102, in
an older section of Colburn with an HVAC system that’s switched
between heat and air conditioning twice a year. Invariably,
there were unseasonably warm days in fall and early spring when
Shine and her students sweltered. Alumni open festivities It
made it hard to focus on chemical engineering problems on the
blackboard but one day it got Shine and her teaching assistant,
Kathy Phillips, thinking about a different kind of engineering
problem – would it be possible to put a green roof over their
heads? Shine knew that a green roof could be installed at a
fraction of the cost of replacing the annex’s old-school HVAC
system. She did some research