2010 Sustainable Design Competition Winners

The Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) hosted its sixth annual sustainable design competition.

The competition encourages college and university students and young professionals to partner around an applied learning experience that focuses on sustainable design. With sustainable transportation at the forefront of Philadelphia's current urban issues, the competition challenged participants to design a sustainable bicycle transit center.

This year's participants include students from Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Lehigh University, Harrisburg Area Community College, Delaware Technical & Community College, among other regional and national schools. New to this year's competition, individual participants included young professionals within three years of graduation from national and international locations.

2010 winners were selected by the following judges:

Spencer Finch of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Katherine Gajewski of the City of Philadelphia
David S. McHenry of Erdy McHenry Architects
Todd Woodward of SMP Architects
George Wilson of Meyer Associates

An awards ceremony for all participants was held on May 5, 2010, as part of the DVGBC's ˜Best of Greenbuild' event. Cash prizes were awarded up to $1,000 for first, second, and third place winners. In addition, frst place winners received a travel stipend to attend the 2010 Greenbuild International Conference and expo this november in Chicago, Illinois. For complete details on the 2010 competition visit: www.dvgbc.org/sustainable_design_competition