{"id":220,"date":"2018-03-20T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:52:28","slug":"ohare-airport-conrac-green-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/ohare-airport-conrac-green-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Hare CONRAC Green Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, 2017, Superior Groundcover, Inc. installed more than 1,000 cubic yards of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydrotechusa.com\/assemblies\/garden-roof-assembly\/litetop-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hydrotech LiteTop&#xAE;<\/a> &nbsp;<a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Extensive&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-weight: 400;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;A type of Green Roof System with the following attributes:&amp;lt;\/span&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li style=&amp;quot;font-weight: 400;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-weight: 400;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Soil depth 3-6 inches&amp;lt;\/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/li&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li style=&amp;quot;font-weight: 400;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-weight: 400;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Lightweight: 15-50 lbs\/sq. 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Vertical Reach: 50&#x2032; Horizontal Run: &#x2026;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/ohare-airport-conrac-green-roof\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">O&#x2019;Hare CONRAC Green Roof<\/span>Read More &#xBB;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-roof","tag-chicago-illinois"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorgroundcover.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}