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Amery Regional Medical Care Center

Amery Regional Medical Care Center

EOR created a landscape for the Medical Center that promotes human health and wellness through an ecologically-enhanced environment. The site design creates a synergy between the hospital, the adjacent Apple River, and the greater Amery community. The project serves as a regional precedent for its many sustainable features.

Main Project Components

  • Environmental education signage
  • Porous fire access lane
  • ½ acre Green roof
  • Raptor nesting platform
  • Prairie restoration
  • Community trail system
  • Overlook of the Apple River
  • Filtration and infiltration bioretention

Client Benefits

  • High profile project serves as a regional precedent for LID and implementing green technologies.
  • Water quality and quantity management surpasses both county and state requirements.
  • Achieves 95% reduction in total suspended solids estimated for post-development conditions.
  • Peak discharge rates and total runoff volumes are below pre-development quantities for the 2-yr and 100-yr storm events.

Project Awards

  • 2011 Landscape Architecture Honor Award for Landscape Design - American Society of landscape Architects-MN Branch
  • 2010 Landscape Architecture Merit Award for Landscape Design - American Society of Landscape Architecture-WI Branch
  • 2017 Certified as an Audubon Bird Sanctuary - first hospital in the world to be certified as such

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