August 15, 2007—The Forest Stewardship Council-US is calling for project submissions for the third annual Designing & Building with FSC Award, which will be presented at the 2007 USGBC GreenBuild International Conference and Exposition in Chicago in November.
The FSC annual award recognizes building projects that have furthered responsible forest management through the incorporation of FSC-certified wood products.
The award is open to owners, developers, architects, interior designers, general contractors, builders, consultants and other professionals associated with projects of any building type—institutional, commercial, mixed-use or residential—completed during or after 2004 that have incorporated at least 50 percent (of new wood by cost) FSC-certified wood.
Submissions are judged on their use of wood, overall wood design, appropriate wood usage and efforts to progress certified-forest-product market transformation. To be eligible for consideration, project submission applications must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. (PST), Friday, September 14, 2007.
Last year’s award went to Washington-based HKP Architects for the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center in Diablo Lake, Washington. The inaugural FSC award in 2005 was presented to international investment-banking firm Goldman Sachs & Co. in recognition of the company’s 42-floor office tower in Jersey City, New Jersey.
To learn more about the FSC award, review past case-study submissions or to download an application form, visit the Green Building section of the FSC-US Web site.
