Each year BetterBricks hosts an awards ceremony in four cities throughout the Northwest to celebrate the accomplishments of green building professionals.  The aim is to both recognize energy efficiency achievements in commercial buildings as well as inspire others to embrace high performance buildings.  After all, buildings consume more than 40 percent of the energy used in the U.S. – approximately half is used in the commercial sector alone. Needless to say, the pressure is on to address the energy needs of our built environment and the BetterBricks Awards celebrate those folks taking great strides to make a difference.

This year marks the seventh year of the Oregon / SW Washington Awards with a  total of 12 professionals honored at a sold out reception to nearly 250 people the morning of February 11th.  The award winners and finalists are listed below.  For more information, visit BetterBricks.com/Awards, read the press release or download  the Portland Business Journal’s BetterBricks Awards supplement.

Owner/Developer:
Those who make decisions about strategic direction regarding investments in high performance buildings. These executives, developers, owners and managers support, authorize and generally enable high performance building to be built and operated.

Winner — Garrin Royer and Danny McGinley, Principals, Redside Development.

Architecture:
Those who design buildings and lead the design team on projects that consistently achieve high levels of energy efficiency in both new construction and major renovations.

Winner — Dennis Cusack, Principal, SRG Partnership, Inc.

Finalists — Lisa Petterson, Associate, SERA Architects; and John Breshears, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.

Design Engineer:
Those who design buildings and lead the design team on projects that consistently achieve high levels of energy efficiency in both new construction and major renovations.

Winner — Bob Gulick, Principal, Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch

Finalist — Nick Collins, Principal, PAE Consulting Engineers

Facility Manager / Building Operations:
Open to a team or an individual who operates and manages the facilities of a building including facility directors, managers and building operators.

Winner — Fred Meyer Energy Team, led by Daniel Schmidlkofer and David Wright, Fred Meyer

Finalist — Melvin Mark Companies Operations Team, led by Melvin Mark Construction Company President, David Zier

Advocate:
Those who advocate for and support the design and operation of high performance buildings including consultants, government, non-profit, educators, and others.

Winner — Susan Steward, Executive Director, BOMA Portland

Finalist — Clark Brockman, Principal, SERA Architects

Multi-Disciplinary Team:
A team of professionals for integrated design on a specific high performance building project or projects that includes three or more of the following professionals: an owner/developer representative, architect, engineer (mechanical, electrical, structural), consultants, and building contractor (if involved during design).

Winner — Slocum Center Team: John Bauman; Dr. Thomas Wuest, Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; Whitney Churchill, The Neenan Company; Galen Ohmart, Solarc Architecture + Engineering; Brian McCarthy, CMGS Landscape Architects; Doug McKay, Steve Korth, McKay Investment Company

Finalist — Twelve/West Team: Mark Edlen, Gerding Edlen Development; Greg Goodman, Downtown Development Group, LLC; Bob Packard, Gene Sandoval, Peter van der Meulen, ZGF Architects, LLP; Eric Hoffman, Hoffman Construction; James Thomas, Glumac; Norm Faris, Art Johnson, KPFF Consulting Engineers