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Natural Talent Design Competition Winners Announced

The Emerging Builders team from North Carolina designed a prototype for Habitat for Humanity International that should achieve a LEED-Silver rating with a materials budget of $46/ft2 ($500/m2).

Illustration: Darab, Kuitz, Jabaley, and Ungerleider
The Emerging Green Builders Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the winners of its 2006 Natural Talent Design Competition at the Greenbuild conference in Denver, Colorado. This year’s competition was organized on the local level through USGBC chapters and required entrants to design projects for their own communities. Three national first-place winners and one honorable mention were chosen from the 11 local chapter contests. The first-place winners were:

Built to Learn, by the winning team from

Washington D.C., where the competition called for teams to create a prototype for temporary classrooms that would address environmental and health issues as well as creating fun learning spaces. The team included Casey Frazier, Matthew Hogan, Sean Wheeler, and Amy Vetal.

Experience Soundview, from the

New York City team that won the competition to design a LEED®-Platinum building for the Soundview Park Nature Center in the Bronx. Team members were Kevin Morin and Dianna Pozdniakov.

Sustainable Design Accessible to All, by the winning team from

North Carolina, which designed a prototype for affordable housing to be built by the local chapter of Habitat For Humanity International. The team included Frank Giordano, Andrew Darab, K.C. Kurtz, Eric Jabaley, and Susan Ungerleider.

The 2007 competition will follow a similar model, focusing on local design competitions, and will open for registration in December 2006. More information is available online at www.usgbc.org/egb/.

Published December 5, 2006

Wendt, A. (2006, December 5). Natural Talent Design Competition Winners Announced. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/natural-talent-design-competition-winners-announced

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