Oct 10 2014
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Awards of Excellence.
The NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, CA is a 2014 Award of Excellence winner. Photo: Jeffrey L. Bruce & Co.
Steven Peck, president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), announced the winners in the lead-up to CitiesAlive®: 12th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference in Nashville, TN. "GRHC is very pleased to celebrate this year's Awards of Excellence winners for their outstanding contributions to living architecture design," said Peck.
"The caliber and quality of living architecture design and execution continued to increase this year. For many projects, the level of integration and range of attributes demonstrates a certain maturity of the green roof/wall industry," said Awards judge David Yocca, principal landscape architect/planner at Conservation Design Forum. "Many submitted projects illustrate the potential for living architecture to be greater than the sum of the parts, and amplify the performance and utility of built infrastructure for many audiences at the same time. The diversity of project types illustrates how living architecture has progressed from obscurity to mainstream, and how the technology can be adapted to virtually any context, use, or economic condition," he added.
The Awards will be formally presented at CitiesAlive (November 12-15, 2014) at the Omni Nashville Hotel on Thursday, November 13th. This year's conference theme is Water: The Key to Everything Green, featuring cutting-edge designs, new technical performance research, innovative policy work, a trade show with industry leaders, and informative professional training and tours.