Green Remodeling Award Winners
Home building industry leaders honored the best in green residential design and outstanding advocacy efforts at the NAHB National Green Building Awards, which were presented on May 8 during the association’s 11th annual National Green Building Conference in Dallas.
Don Ferrier of Ferrier Custom Homes in Fort Worth, who was honored as the 2007 Green Builder Advocate of the Year, served as the master of ceremonies.
In a challenging year for the home building industry, with housing starts dropping to record lows in a sputtering economy, green homes have represented “hope and the future, and the future is green home building,” Ferrier said. “The ladies and gentlemen we honor this evening understand that. These awards honor their leadership and their practical example to others in the industry.”
The winners for remodeling were:
- Single-family Remodeling Project of the Year: Honors went to Red-B Construction for a Durham, N.C. home for its striking design and extensive use of deconstruction techniques that improve its resource efficiency.
- Multifamily Remodeling Project of the Year: Hardwick G. C. Inc. of Orlando turned an early 20th-century bungalow into a charming duplex that has a rainwater harvesting system, native landscaping and other water-efficient features.
- Build San Antonio Green and the Missoula (Mont.) Building Industry Association were honored as the Local Green Home Building Programs of the year, while the city of Chicago was named Governmental Advocate of the Year for its extensive voluntary energy-efficiency improvement programs and for encouraging green roofs on high-rise buildings.
- Donna Shirey, a longtime NAHB Remodelers leader and green-building professional from Seattle, was honored as Remodeling Advocate of the Year.
For more information, e-mail Calli Schmidt at NAHB, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8132.
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