Northest Green Building Awards

The

Northeast Green Building Awards, sponsored by the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, were announced at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s (NESEA) Building Energy 2002 conference on March 21 in Medford, Massachusetts. The winners are:

Noah Wentworth, that made extensive use of local materials and was sited for minimum impact on the property; Second prize went to a solar home in Charlestown, Rhode Island, designed by

Donald Watson, FAIA.

•Commercial/Institutional/Government Buildings:

Cusano Environmental Education Center at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia, designed by Susan Maxman Partners.

•Solar Electric Buildings: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s

Cambria Office Building in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, designed by Kulp Boecker Architects (see

EBN

Vol. 10, No. 4).

•Student Projects: Rather than honoring an individual, this award was given collectively to six students from The School of Architecture and Planning at the

State University of New York at Buffalo.

Details on all these projects will be available online at

www.nesea.org.