At West Coast Green in San Francisco last week, U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Assistant Administrator Susan Bodine announced winners of the first inaugural Lifecycle Building Challenge competition. Winners were recognized for their cutting-edge green building ideas that aim to reduce environmental and energy impacts of buildings. Ideas from the design contest will jumpstart the building industry to help reuse more of the 100 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris sent each year to landfills in the U.S. The winners are listed below:
- Sustainability by Design, Professional Unbuilt, People’s Choice Award
- Pavilion in the Park, Professional Built, Buildings
- GreenMobile, Professional Unbuilt, Buildings
- groHome, Student, Buildings
- Demountable Tape, Profesional Built, Components
- Deconstructable & Reusable Composite Slab, Professional Unbuilt, Components
- Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials, Student, Components
- ATHENA Assembly Evaluation Tool, Professional Built, Services
- Deconstruction Engineer, Student, Services
Congratulations to all the winners, honorable mentions, and participants.
I think it is important to note that this award was inspired by Chartwell School in Seaside http://www.chartwell.org/ Ausonio Inc was the general contracter on this project and we learned a lot using the deconstruction techniques that Scott Shell of EHDD Architecture had specified on this project.
GreenMobile: Ultra-Affordable, Modular Green Homes
We featured GreenMobile last year when we blogged about the Lifecycle Building Challenge winners. GreenMobile was a winner in the Professional Unbuilt category. Now, mounting success upon success, Michael Berk,