Designers in the Northwest and Pacific Region create some of the world’s most sustainable buildings.

Now in its second decade, the WMIG? awards program recognizes the best green design in the Northwest and Pacific region, including Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Guam/Micronesia, Hong Kong, and Japan.

The WMIG? awards program recognizes projects that demonstrate the highest accomplishment in environmentally sustainable architecture, combining inspired design, systems analysis, and performance evaluation under the domains of Planet, People, and Prosperity.

WMIG? celebrates these achievements and the interdisciplinary teamwork required to meet the 2030 Challenge®. Through live interviews with shortlisted project teams, WMIG? educates and inspires the larger design community with creative solutions for sustainability.

JURY

The 2012 Jury includes:

Ash Awad, P.E., holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Mechanical Engineering, and has 20 years of industry experience. His extensive knowledge includes systems engineering, sustainable evaluations, financing solutions, and securing incentives/grants.At McKinstry Ash fosters resource efficiency, energy generation, and facility services and provides innovative vision and leadership. Ash has helped McKinstry grow into a nationally recognized design, build, operate, and maintain enterprise whose footprint continues to grow across the western U.S. Ash serves as President of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council and sits on the Washington Clean Energy Leadership Council, Pacific Science Center, and Climate Solutions Boards.

Amanda Sturgeon AIA, Certification Directory, Living Building Challenge
Amanda Sturgeon, AIA is an award-winning architect and has been recognized as a pioneering leader in the green building movement in the northwest region. Amanda was a founding board member of the Cascadia Green Building Council, has served on the board of AIA Seattle and has been a visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington. Amanda won the Betterbricks Architect award in 2008, and was the 2011 AIA/NAIUSI Fellow through which she spent a month in Italy studying Biophilia and Beauty as a pathway to a restorative future.

Jason S. Twill, Senior Project Manager, Sustainability, Vulcan Inc.
Currently managing sustainability initiatives at Vulcan Inc., Jason has over a decade of experience in the areas of construction management, architecture, urban planning and real estate development. His work includes research and implementation of portfolio-wide resource conservation measures, creating investment strategies for alternative energy and water systems, and advocacy work for policies that support environmentally conscious design. Jason earned a masters degree in real estate finance and development from New York University and is a trained climate change communicator for both the city of Seattle and The Climate Project. Jason also currently serves on the boards of the International Living Future Institute and the Green Sports Alliance as well as the steering committee for the Climate, Buildings & Behavior Project at the Garrison Institute.  Jason is the father of two boys and spends his spare time wandering the Cascade Mountains with his family.

Daniel Williams FAIA, Founder, DWA Design
Daniel E. Williams FAIA, is a practicing architect and planner in Seattle and is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable design. Mr. Williams is a member of the experts team for the Clinton Climate + Initiative, advising on projects in Toronto and London. He served as 2006 chair of the AIA’s Sustainability Task Group and sat on the national advisory council for United States Environmental Protection Agency - NACEPT. In 2011 he was honored to act as jury chair for the AIA/URP national awards. Dan participated in the development the 2010 Council of Mayor’s resolution that will reduce carbon emissions by 50%; presented Watershed Planning Initiatives at the Center for Neighborhood Technologies in Chicago; wrote and chaired the AIA/EPA grant Water + Design; co-wrote the Barcelona Declaration on Sustainability; and has worked with dozens of communities around the country, creating master plans with the residents – specifically to assist in the rebuilding of towns and cities after natural disasters and the associated impacts from climate change.

MODERATOR 

Brian Geller, Founder & Executive Director, Seattle 2030 District
Brian is the Founder and Executive Director of the Seattle 2030 District, a public-private partnership of property owners, managers, design professionals, King County and The City of Seattle to create America's first High-Performance Building District. Brian previously worked for ZGF architects as a sustainability specialist, overseeing sustainable design of major projects at the Seattle office, including Seattle's King Street Station and Nintendo of America's new corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA. In 2008, Brian won the national Natural Talent Design Competition hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council. Brian has a Masters Degree in Architecture from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Skidmore College.

WHY SUBMIT?

WMIG? is a Northwest and Pacific regional awards program. It reflects many of the same goals as the AIA National COTE’s Top Ten Green Projects Awards, and has been crafted to help firms easily leverage submittals for both programs. WMIG? offers an opportunity to contribute to the regional dialogue on sustainable design, share knowledge, and gain recognition for projects with notable green design solutions.

Additionally, all projects will be showcased in the following ways:

• Published online in the WMIG? gallery at www.aiaseattle.org/wmig
• Presented in a rolling media presentation at the WMIG? Awards event
• Presented in a rolling media presentation as an accompaniment to the gallery exhibit at AIA Seattle
• Selected projects will be featured in AIA Seattle COTE Case Study presentations and tours through 2012

AIA Seattle COTE WMIG? winning projects will be showcased in the following additional ways:

• Published in AIA Seattle’s regional quarterly full-color magazine Forum (Summer 2012)
• Featured on Exhibit Boards and in a commemorative brochure at the AIA Seattle gallery
• Featured on Exhibit Boards and in a commemorative brochure at the Future Energy Conference on Nov 13-14, 2012 in Seattle
• Included in a WMIG? awards press release distributed to various local, regional and national media outlets
• Highlighted on the BetterBricks website
  

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Eric Anderson AIA, CDI Engineers 
Christopher Meek AIA, Integrated Design Lab, UW

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Carl Dominguez AIA  ● Wes Hoffman  ●  Cheryl Jacobs  AIA ●  Leslie Jonsson  ●  Kerry Mason Assoc. AIA  ●  Margaret Montgomery AIA  ●  Jared Silliker  ●  Jesse Walton AIA  ●  Phoebe Warren  ●  Mike Weller  ● Max Wilson  ●  David Winans AIA

This program is presented in partnership with 

SPONSORS 

 


AHBL ● Daniels Real Estate ● GCH Planning & Landscape Architecture ● GeoEngineers ● GGLO ● Hargis Engineers ● Hoffman Construction Company ● LPD Engineering ● P&M ● PAE Consulting Engineers ● Quantum Consulting Engineers ● Sellen Construction/Sellen Sustainability ● SvR Design Company ● WSP Flack + Kurtz ● Walters & Wolf ● Warmboard   ●   Williams Kastner