Image courtesy JLB & Company "The Landscape Architect calculated the impact of each cycle of the 100,000 gallon of use irrigation represents 140 tons of evaporative cooling mitigating the impact of urban heat island in the city core." Jeffrey L. Bruce selves in this framework. The greatest challenge of this project was balancing the narrow profile with the need for biodiversity. Landscape Architects optimized a solution that supported a food chain biodiversity which restored the critical insect ecology as the second trophic level in the food chain which supports secondary consumers of predators or parasites of herbivores, typically songbirds and bats. As one of the most technically and architecturally advanced health education centers in the nation, this project demonstrates the creative integration of ecological function and implementation of new green technology while providing a brilliant new urban park for the community. LIVING ARCHITECTURE MONITOR / FALL 2019 / 10 While the primary use of recycled materials were compost in the growing media and wood mulch the landscape was designed to minimize the use of materials with higher embodied energy. Over 95 per cent of the landscape materials and furnishings were sourced within 20 miles of the site greatly reducing transportation costs. The regulatory environment and campus facilities were generally apprehensive about the project because it was a very different approach to stormwater management. Although supportive of the concept, it had never been proposed or permitted by the city. In order to succeed with the design solution, the design team needed to create a new set of design standards to document and present to the city engineer for approval. LIVINGARCHITECTUREMONITOR.COMhttp://www.naturcycle.com