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Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the winners of its 2009 Natural Talent Design Competition at last week’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Phoenix, Ariz. The competition, now in its seventh year, gives students and young professionals the opportunity to apply sustainable design concepts to local community building projects.
“The winners of this year’s competition are tomorrow’s green building leaders and the innovation that they’ve shown gives us great hope for the future of the built environment,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council.
The competition engages young designers in a unique way by presenting them with the opportunity to have a hands-on learning experience designing with the principles of LEED in mind including integrated design, sustainability and innovation.
National 1st Place Winner: Team Grow Harlem, The Emerging Green Builders of the Urban Green Council, USGBC’s New York Chapter. Team members: Irmak Turan, Daniel Bersohn, Ryan Moy, Shefali Sanghvi and Christopher Jones.
National 2nd Place Winner: Team Phoenix, USGBC North Carolina Triangle Chapter. Team members: Patrick Gorham, Ron Wilson, Eli Barrett, Josh Lee and Larry Carr.
Honorable Mention: Team Talud, USGBC Colorado Chapter. Team members: Frank Romero and Michael Deleon
Design teams compete in local competitions held by the participating chapters and host committees in USGBC’s national chapter network. The winning team from each local competition moves on to compete for a national award at Greenbuild. This year, 23 chapters hosted local competitions and sent their winning project teams to Greenbuild to compete for the national prize. The winners were chosen at Greenbuild by a jury of design professionals and were announced at the “Student and Young Professional Master Speaker Session.”
A new format for the 2010 Natural Design Competition was also revealed. In partnership with Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative, the 2010 competition will focus its sights on the rebuilding effort in New Orleans, Louisiana. Competitors will be divided into students and young professionals groups and will design a LEED for Homes project that is priced affordably and is functional for elderly occupants. Up to four designs will be selected from the local competition finalists to be showcased at Greenbuild 2010 and, for the first time, the designers will see their projects built in New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood. Once the homes are built, they will enter a measurement and verification phase in which they will be graded on energy efficiency, water reuse and indoor air quality among other categories. The design team whose home performs best during measurement and verification will be awarded the final grand prize. See www.usgbc.org/designcompetition for more details.
“The winners of this year’s competition are tomorrow’s green building leaders and the innovation that they’ve shown gives us great hope for the future of the built environment,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council.
The competition engages young designers in a unique way by presenting them with the opportunity to have a hands-on learning experience designing with the principles of LEED in mind including integrated design, sustainability and innovation.
National 1st Place Winner: Team Grow Harlem, The Emerging Green Builders of the Urban Green Council, USGBC’s New York Chapter. Team members: Irmak Turan, Daniel Bersohn, Ryan Moy, Shefali Sanghvi and Christopher Jones.
National 2nd Place Winner: Team Phoenix, USGBC North Carolina Triangle Chapter. Team members: Patrick Gorham, Ron Wilson, Eli Barrett, Josh Lee and Larry Carr.
Honorable Mention: Team Talud, USGBC Colorado Chapter. Team members: Frank Romero and Michael Deleon
Design teams compete in local competitions held by the participating chapters and host committees in USGBC’s national chapter network. The winning team from each local competition moves on to compete for a national award at Greenbuild. This year, 23 chapters hosted local competitions and sent their winning project teams to Greenbuild to compete for the national prize. The winners were chosen at Greenbuild by a jury of design professionals and were announced at the “Student and Young Professional Master Speaker Session.”
A new format for the 2010 Natural Design Competition was also revealed. In partnership with Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative, the 2010 competition will focus its sights on the rebuilding effort in New Orleans, Louisiana. Competitors will be divided into students and young professionals groups and will design a LEED for Homes project that is priced affordably and is functional for elderly occupants. Up to four designs will be selected from the local competition finalists to be showcased at Greenbuild 2010 and, for the first time, the designers will see their projects built in New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood. Once the homes are built, they will enter a measurement and verification phase in which they will be graded on energy efficiency, water reuse and indoor air quality among other categories. The design team whose home performs best during measurement and verification will be awarded the final grand prize. See www.usgbc.org/designcompetition for more details.
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