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Green Roof Awards of Excellence Open to Submissions

Past project winners include the California Academy of Sciences and the Vancouver Aquarium.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 2/18/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Have an artfully sprouting green roof under your belt? Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is seeking entries to the Green Roof Awards of Excellence, an awards program honoring "innovative and integrative green roof design." Entry forms, available online, are due March 1.

Awards will be presented at the 7th Annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards, and Trade Show in Atlanta, Georgia in three categories:

Intensive Industrial/Commercial or Extensive Industrial/Commercial

Intensive Institutional or Extensive Institutional

Intensive Residential or Extensive Residential

Green Walls Award

A total of seven awards will be bestowed. Applicants will vie for three awards in both the extensive category (roofs with six inches or less of growing medium throughout) and the intensive category (roofs with more than six inches of growing medium or less, including roofs with a mix of more and less that six inches of growing medium). One award will be bestowed for an outstanding green wall.

Past winners include Rana Creek Living Architecture for the California Academy of Sciences (2008 Extensive Institutional Award Winner) and Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture for the Vancouver Aquarium (2008 Green Wall Design Award Winner).

Submissions are also open to the Research Awards, honoring individuals or groups that have made outstanding contributions to the green roof industry in research; and the Civic Awards, recognizing government and non-government individuals or groups that have made outstanding contributions to the green roof industry in policy.