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The Green Roof Awards of Excellence program recognizes distinction in three the areas This year the awards of Excellence will be presented on Friday, June 5th 2009 - at the Seventh Annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference Awarda and Trade Show at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, Georgia (12:30 to 2:00 pm, Regency VI – VII). The Master of Ceremonies will be Jeffrey Bruce - a long time awards judge as well as previous winner.
We would like to thank our judges this year: Jeffrey L. Bruce, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (Awards of Excellence Winner) Michael Gibbons, Architectural Systems Inc., Chair, ASTM Green Roof Task Group Monica Kuhn, Architect Ed Snodgrass, Green Roof Plants Paul Yocca, Conservation Design Forum Linda Velazquez, greenroofs.com You can learn more about the selection process for all awards at the bottom of this page. The submission deadline for the 2009 Research and Policy awards of Excellence has now passed - thank you to all who submitted.
The 2009 Design Awards contest is also closed - thank you to all submittors! The Updated Research Awards nomination forms are available here (.doc, ~350 KB) The Civic Awards - Government and Non-Government honour
individuals or groups who have made outstanding contributions to the green roof
industry in policy development. Completed nomination
forms can be emailed to
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. This year there are seven design award categories. Three for extensive green roofs, those with 6 inches or less of growing medium throughout; and three for intensive green roofs, those with more than six inches of growing medium (this category includes semi-intensive green roofs as well, i.e., those with a mix of more and less that six inches of growing medium). Three different categories of buildings will be awarded. New and existing or retrofit projects will not be differentiated. Residential buildings can be either single family and/or multi-unit. Applicants may submit more than one project for the same, or different award categories. The award categories are: Intensive Industrial/Commercial Extensive Industrial/Commercial Intensive Institutional Extensive Institutional Intensive Residential Extensive Residential Green Walls
1. A completed submission form in .doc format. 2.
A 5-10 slide Power Point presentation. Please try to insure that the presentation is less than 5 MB - make sure your
images are compressed! Green roof design submission forms are available here (.doc, ~320 KB) Green wall design submission forms are available here (.doc, ~320 KB) Once prepared, please use our online submission system, to which you will upload the completed submission elements at the same time as you pay the application fee of $95.00. Click here to submit your project online If you have any questions about the application process, please contact
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All award winners are selected by committee. The Design Awards are selected by a seven-member, multi-disciplinary judging team that includes Architects, Landscape Architects, Engineers and Horticulturists. Submissions are evaluated according to a broad range of weighted criteria including aesthetic, economic, functional and ecological components. The Research Award is selected by GRHC’s Research Committee,
Chaired by Brad Bass of Environment Canada at the The Civic Award is selected by GRHC’s Policy Committee. |
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