Last year, our own Alex Wilson served as a judge for the
Lifecycle Building Challenge, a competition organized by West Coast Green, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Building Materials Reuse Association, The American Institute of Architects, Collaborative for High-Performance Schools, and Southface Energy Institute.
There are two main categories: buildings and ideas. In either category, the idea is to design a project that takes a material's entire lifecycle into account. In other words, you want to design a building that can be disassembled for reuse or recycling. Ditto for a wall assembly or some other piece of a building.
This year, the contest requires entrants to provide estimated square footage for buildings and estimated construction debris savings for their projects or ideas. There are also three new awards for outstanding achievement: best greenhouse gas reduction, best school design, and best residential design.
We wrote up last year's winners
here. I'd like to have some really cool winners to write about here or in
EBN in the fall, so get to it!
A design competition for professionals and students, the Lifecycle Building Challenge is sponsored by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Institute of Architects, and West Coast Green. The competition is focused on design for adaptability, material reuse, and minimizing lifecycle impacts from products.
Registration and participation is free. Submission deadline is August 30 2009.
From the website:
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Preston Koerner, over at Jetson Green, posted his "
Posted live from Greenbuild.
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