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2008 winner

W.P. Hickman Systems Inc., Solon, Ohio, won NRCA's 2008 SpecRight Excellence in Design Award competition for the green roof system it installed on Chicago-based Pacific Garden Mission, the largest continuously operating homeless shelter in the U.S. The building's 16,000-square-foot roof system features vegetative grids and a solar-reflective membrane. The new roof system is providing the mission with a 25 percent reduction in storm water runoff. W.P. Hickman Systems donated its $2,500 prize money to Pacific Garden Mission.