| Optional Tour:
Ford Rouge Center and Henry Ford Factory
Michigan Meetings & Events Magazine 2009 Readers’ Choice Best of Award Winner
Eco-Friendly Supplier (Ford Rouge Factory Tour)
Service (The Henry Ford)
Meeting/Event Venue in Metro Detroit Area — No Hotel (The Henry Ford)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
8:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Ford’s 10.4Acre Sedum Roof
Photo Courtesy Ford Motor Co. and the Mannik & Smith Group, Inc.
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Visit and tour key areas of the Ford Rouge Center: home to the state of the art F-150 truck assembly plant, paint plant, and several smaller automotive lines. Visitors will have the opportunity to see first-hand and learn about the unusual, sustainable 1,200-acre industrial facility.
Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about sustainability at a large scale from the standpoint of a major corporation. In addition to exploring the brownfield qualities of the LEED Gold facility, visitors will be able to experience some of these other elements:
- PowerPoint overview and Q&A session with the Owner, Designers, and Engineers of the plant.
- The renovated Historic Glass Plant
- Paint Shop and the Fumes to Fuel Program
- Gate 4 and Memorial Plaza
- 16 acre porous pavement truck holding lot/Thermal Storage/Big Foot Mech. Units
- Miller Road
- Ford Factory Environmental Wetlands, Stormwater Detention Ponds, and Green Observation Roof
- Photovoltaics
The tour will conclude with a visit to the Factory Tour: a self-guided presentation and tour of the plant and opportunity to witness the workday and factory floor.
For more information, contact Leslie Smith at 248-353-0735, ext. 152, or lsmith@esd.org.
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