To view entries from previous years, click here.

Winners announced!
Find out the winners, read jury comments, and recap the day's event at the AIA Seattle COTE Blog. For a more in depth look, review the entire field of entries.

2009 What Makes It GREEN?


Kevin Hydes PE
Integral Company, Los Angeles

Kevin is President and CEO of the Integral Group, a global engineering organization that is committed to developing DEEP GREEN strategies for his clients. He is building the Integral team to explicitly deliver on the current needs of the profession across the globe. Bringing over 30 years of experience to the engineering industry, Kevin has spent the past 15 years focusing on green design and advancing its cause. Kevin is a long-time leader in the field of sustainability in North America and abroad - widely recognized for his contributions to the building industry. Over the past decade he has gained a reputation as both an innovator as an engineer and also a pioneer as a green business leader, creating transformative strategies as President of Keen Engineering and Vice President of Stantec. Kevin brings this collective experience to the Integral Group, where he will build and shape the future of this unique organization. He is Former Chair of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council and a Co-founder of its Canadian counterpart, the Canada Green Building Council. Kevin serves as a faculty member to the USGBC and CaGBC.

Sandy Wiggins
Consilience, LLC, Philadelphia

Sandy Wiggins is Principal of Consilience, LLC, a national green development consultancy, and Chairman of e3bank, a triple bottom line full service bank with a mission to facilitate the transition to a green economy. He is also a Director of Silpa, Inc., an international green building technical consultancy with offices in Bangalore and Dubai. Sandy is Immediate Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, a Director and Founding Chair of the Green Building Certification Institute, and served on the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee and the LEED 2009 Executive Committee. He was Co-Founder and Founding Chair of Philadelphia’s Delaware Valley Green Building Council. He is also an adjunct professor in Philadelphia University’s Master of Science in Sustainable Design program.

Gwynne Pugh, AIA, ASCE, LEED A.P.
Pugh + Scarpa Architects, San Francisco

Gwynne Pugh has been practicing architecture, planning, civil and structural engineering since 1971. Co-founder of Pugh + Scarpa Architects, his responsibilities include design, design review, urban design, technical and production management, and general project administration. Over the past decade the firm has received more than 40 major design awards, notably 12 national AIA Awards, including 2006 and 2003 AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Project” awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, and the 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize. Mr. Pugh is a recent Chair of the Santa Monica Planning Commission, and as a Consultant to the Cities of Carson, Long Beach, San Diego, and Los Angeles as well as the Getty Conservation Institute. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, and is considered an expert in sustainable design and engineering.

2009 WMIG? Co-Chairs
Tom Paladino Assoc. AIA, Paladino & Company
Dave Goldberg AIA, Mithun

Thanks to our generous sponsors

SILVER

BRONZE

AHBL
Bellevue Mechanical
CDi Engineers
Cold Spring Granite
Davis Langdon
GCH Planning & Landscape Architecture
Interface Engineering
LPD Engineering
McGraw-Hill