READING HEALTHPLEX

Reading Healthplex

Reading Healthplex, built in the fall of 2016 as part of a Reading Hospital expansion, features a series of rooftop gardens, totaling over one acre of greenery. The green roof includes a healing garden and a meadow to provide a natural and relaxing space for patients, hospital staff and visitors. It’s one of the largest green roofs in Pennsylvania and the third largest green roofs in the U.S. on a healthcare building. In October 2016, the hospital was named one of the 50 Greenest Hospitals in America by Becker’s Hospital Review.

The green roof is a great example of biophilic design, featuring space that invites patients and visitors to experience the restorative healing garden, including paver paths along curving corten steel planter walls. With different natural spaces, ranging from 4 to 36 inches of growth media, rooflite provided soil that allows for a variety of vegetation to thrive from sedum and perennials to bushes and trees. The growing media and vegetation provide insulation to the building, resulting in higher energy efficiency and lower energy costs and consumption.