Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation will be moving to our new LEED certified green office space in Morristown on December 11th and 12th. (Please note we anticipate that our email and phone service will be interrupted on the 11th; we hope to be fully operational - knock on wood - by the 12th).

Our phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same. Our new mailing address will be: 14 Maple Avenue, PO Box 1239, Morristown, NJ 07962-1239.

Thank you for your patience and support. We look forward to hosting you in our new space in 2009.

Here are some photos of our biowall being installed by the folks of Furbish Company. There are three layers of porous material to which the plants are attached: one layer of abrasive mat, one layer of coconut fiber mat, and another layer of abrasive mat. The abrasive mat, incidentally, is not unlike the typical abrasive material you find on a dish sponge. The plants’ roots grown downward between the layers.

The plants are watered through a pump system; water cascades down through the plants from the top of the wall, collecting in a trough at the bottom and is then pumped back to the top of the wall.

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Here are a couple “Before” pictures of the green roof at 14 Maple Avenue. Stay tuned for the “After” pictures and other construction updates.

As this article in the Daily Record explains, we’re getting close to the completion of New Jersey’s greenest building, which will be home to the new offices of the Dodge Foundation. Construction continues at a furious pace!

For more information on the unique green features of the building, you can explore the “green building project” section of our website.