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Ford Rouge Center Industrial
Redevelopment
2003 Michigan AIA Sustainable Project Award Winner
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Text by:
Charles F. Poat, AIA, LEED AP
– Walbridge Aldinger
with Commentary from Arcadis Giffels.
Photographs by: Justin Maconochy
of Maconochy Photography
unless noted otherwise |
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The Ford Rouge
Center is by far the most ambitious sustainable project
ever, proving for the first time that sustainability can
indeed be implemented on a very large scale. The Ford Rouge
Center stands as the icon of the twentieth century
“Industrial Revolution”. It is now the symbol of the
“Sustainable Revolution”, the result of a comprehensive, and
significant redevelopment of the existing brownfield site
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Master Plan of the Ford
Rouge Center. Graphics by Arcadis-Giffels |
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In 1999 the
sustainable vision for the Ford Rouge Center was developed by
William Clay Ford and William McDonough of William McDonough &
Partners. Ford Motor Company assembled a construction
management project delivery approach, partnering with Walbridge
Aldinger, the area’s largest and most reputable automotive
industrial construction management company. Arcadis-Giffels
provided the core automotive professional
architectural-engineering expertise and were the architects of
record for the industrial buildings and site. Ford Motor Company
gave the development team a mission that rang with unmistakable
clarity: deliver a living industrial complex that will
transform an infamous brown field located in the core of
America’s industrial heartland into a symbol of environmental
care and including respect for workers and for all who live in
the community. The team needed to prove the financial soundness
of the sustainable concept on a massive scale. The success of
implementing sustainability into the course of a complex
project, was itself sustained by a quality management program,
the desire for continuous improvement, and a team of people who
wholeheartedly embraced the challenge from start to finish.
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