NAHB Announces 2005 Green Building Awards

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced the winners of its 2005 National Green Building Awards in March during its Green Building Conference in Atlanta. “Green building is a way of life for these award winners,” said Ray Tonjes, homebuilder and chairman of NAHB’s Green Building Subcommittee.

• Cannon Beach Cottage, a 2,268 ft² (210 m²) home in northern Oregon, won

Green Custom Project of the Year. Rich Elstrom Construction, Inc., based in Gearhart, Oregon, built the home, which is expected to produce more energy than it uses.

•Madison-based

Veridian Homes, Wisconsin’s largest homebuilding company, won

Green Production Project of the Year. All of the 558 homes the company built in 2004 earned Energy Star^® ratings and Wisconsin’s Green Built Home™ certification.

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Perkins Eastman won

Green Affordable Multifamily Project of the Year for its work on the renovation of the Felician Sisters Convent in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

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The Eco Housing Corporation™

and Poretsky Building Group, Inc., both of Bethesda, Maryland, were awarded

Green Luxury Multifamily Project of the Year for the Eastern Village Cohousing community in Silver Spring, Maryland, which was converted from a four-story office building.

• Dallas-based

RS Lawrence Construction, LLC, won

Green Remodeling Project of the Year for its work renovating a 1915 historic home originally designed by Texas architect Hal Thomson.

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WCI Communities, Inc., won

Outstanding Green Marketing Award for its work promoting the Venetian Golf and River Club in Bonita Springs, Florida, currently undergoing certification through the Florida Green Building Coalition’s Green Home Standards.

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California Green Builder, a subgroup of the California Building Industry Association, won

Green Program of the Year.

• The U.S. Department of Energy’s

Building America program, whose approach has been used in the design of more than 26,000 homes, was awarded

Green Advocate of the Year: Group or Organization.

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Pam Sessions, co-owner and president of Hedgewood Properties in Atlanta, was named

Green Advocate of the Year: Builder. All Hedgewood homes are built to the standards of the Southface Energy Institute’s EarthCraft House™ program.

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Mark Kelley, founder of Building Science Engineering in Harvard, Massachusetts, was named

Green Advocate of the Year: Individual. Kelley, a past member of the EBN editorial advisory board, has been a leading proponent of renewable energy and sustainable building technologies for more than 25 years.

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Carl Seville, vice president of SawHorse, Inc., in Atlanta, who pushed for the expansion of EarthCraft House training to include renovations and chaired the committee that made it happen, was named

Green Advocate of the Year: Remodeling.