Environmental Design + Construction magazine’s Sixth Annual Excellence in Design Awards recognize commercial and government buildings, institutional and educational facilities*, and single-family residences that demonstrate a clear commitment to green building and sustainable design. Projects exhibited a variety of environmental building criteria as determined by a panel of judges comprised of ED+C staff members as well as the following key industry professionals**:

• Rick Fedrizzi, U.S. Green Building Council President, CEO and Founding Chairman.
• Jim Nicolow, AIA, LEED AP, principal and director of sustainable development at architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent.
• Frank Sherman, RA, LEED AP, vice president of Mackenzie Keck Construction, and director of Global Thinking.
• Jeff Stephens, founder of public relations consultancy Planet Relations.
• Steven Winter, RA, FAIA, president, and Maureen Mahle, EIT Engineer, LEED AP, Steven Winter Associates Inc.
• Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED AP, principal of Yudelson Associates, Tucson, Ariz., and author of eight books on green building.

Details on each of the winning projects and finalists will be included in future issues of ED+C.

Congratulations to the winners!

Commercial, Office, Industrial, Corporate Building Category Winner

RiverEast Center / Rivers East LLC in Portland, Ore., submitted by Group Mackenzie.

Finalists in the Commercial category included:

• Stopwaste.org Building, Oakland, Calif., Rumsey Engineers.
• IDeAs Z2 Design Facility, San Jose, Calif., Rumsey Engineers.
• New Headquarters for the Barton Group, Glens Falls, N.Y., Mahota Associates.

Honorable Mentions in the Commercial category included: Marshall Erdman & Associates - Corporate Headquarters/Erdman Place (Marshall Erdman & Associates), FatWallet, Inc. Headquarters (Workstage), Express Scripts Headquarters (Christner) and L.L. Bean Hunting & Fishing Store (Arrowstreet).

Details will be published in the October 2008 issue of ED+C.

Educational Building Category Winner

Yale Sculpture Building. Photo by Peter Aaron/Esto Photographics, Inc.

Yale University Sculpture Building in New Haven, Conn., submitted by Shawmut Design and Construction.

Finalists in the Educational Building category included:

• The Mills College Betty Irene Moore Natural Sciences Building, Oakland, Calif., Mills College.
• Student Resource Building/ University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif., Sasaki Associates Inc.
• University System of Maryland, Camille Kendall Academic Center, Rockville, Md., Cannon Design.

Honorable Mentions in the Educational Building category included:

Turman Hall, Emory University (Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc.); Commons Center, Vanderbilt University (Bruner Cott); and Hector P. Garcia Middle School (Perkins+Will).

Government Building Category (Federal, State or Local) Winner

Alameda Juvenile Justice Center. Photo by John Swain.

Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro, Calif., submitted by HOK.


Finalists in the Government category included:

• Twin Creeks Science and Education Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn., Lord, Aeck & Sargent.
• Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, North Little Rock, Ark., Williams & Dean Associated Architects.
• Village of Orland Park Police Headquarters, Orland Park, Ill., SRBL Architects.
• Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8 Headquarters, Denver, Colo., Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP.

Details will be available in the November 2008 issue of ED+C.

Institutional (not including schools), Non-Profit, Healthcare Winner

Desert Living Center. Photo by Opulence Studios.

Desert Living Center & Gardens at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, submitted by Lucchesi Galati. (See the March 2008 issue of ED+C.)


Finalists in the Institutional/Non-profit/Healthcare category included:

• The Wild Center, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Lake, N.Y., HOK.
• Water + Life Museums Campus, Hemet, Calif., Taylor & Company.
• Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas/ Seton Healthcare Network, Austin, Texas, Karlsberger (See ED+C’s August 2008 cover story).

Honorable Mentions in the Institutional/Non-profit/Healthcare category included: Blue Ridge Parkway Destination Center/Blue Ridge Parkway, The National Park Service, Lord, Aeck & Sargent; Boston Children’s Museum, Shawmut Design and Construction; Mercy Housing Lakefront - Margot and Harold Schiff Residences, Murphy/Jahn; Metro Health Hospital, HDR Architectre Inc.; Redding Library, LPA, Inc.; and Snowmass Village Recreation Center, Hagman Architects.

Additional details will be available in the November 2008 issue of ED+C.

Single-Family Residential Home Winner

McCullough Residence. Photo by Sanford Creative.

McCullough Residence in Durham, N.C., submitted by Sophie Piesse Architect P.A.


Finalists in the Residential category included:

• Nutter Green Home, Milford, Ohio, Krista Atkins Nutter.
• The Good Home (Towne Development of Hawaii, A Zilber Company), Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, KM Development.

Honorable Mentions in the Residential category included: Richard and Cindy Wallace Residence (Seville Consulting), The Peacock House (Greenhaus Builders), and Residence in Delhi (Morphogenesis Architecture Studio Pvt. Ltd.).


Details will be available in the October 2008 issue of ED+C.


*Due to the number of school projects submitted in the institutional category, we added a new category this year – Educational Buildings.

**Judges were assigned various categories (one or more), but were not eligible to judge projects that they were involved in at any level.