Located in the Streeterville area on the north side of Chicago, the Northwestern University Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center is the newest medical building in the Northwestern University medical campus. A privately-funded cancer research center, the major addition to the Chicago medical community was designed by the Chicago office of Perkins+Will (P+W) and its sub-consulting team.

The proximity to Lake Michigan creates a high water table issue for the building. It is also in a dense urban area. The city of Chicago Department of Water Management required that a minimum of 10,000 cubic feet of stormwater be managed on the project. P+W and Hydrotech created solutions using Hydrotech’s Garden Roof Blue Roof Assembly to put that stormwater on the top two roof surfaces of the Phase 1 structure, consisting of the base building of 14-stories plus two underground basement stories.

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