2007 Judges
Brad Guy, AIA
Director of Operations
Hamer Center of the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Architect Brad Guy is Director of Operations of the Hamer Center of the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He has been a pivotal force in researching and advancing design for deconstruction and building materials reuse. Brad was previously Associate Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. He is President of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA), co-founded the Florida Green Building Coalition, and has chaired BMRA Deconstruction and Building Materials Reuse Conferences. He is a past recipient of The Tides Foundation Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Fellowship, and the University of Florida President's Humanitarian Award. Brad has developed long-term partnerships with the U.S. EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Americorps, Habitat for Humanity, and numerous organizations. He co-edited Construction Ecology, in 2001, and is the co-author of the book, Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses.
Alex Wilson
President
BuildingGreen, Inc.
Alex Wilson is the president of BuildingGreen, Inc. in Brattleboro, Vermont and executive editor of Environmental Building News and the GreenSpec® Directory. A biologist by training, he has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction for more than 25 years. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now BuildingGreen, Inc.), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years. Alex is author of Your Green Home (New Society Publishers, 2006) and coauthor of the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (ACEEE, 8th edition, 2003) and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). He has also written hundreds of articles for other publications, including Fine Homebuilding, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, the Journal of Light Construction, and Popular Science. Along with writing about design and construction, Alex has written four guidebooks on quiet-water paddling in the Northeast for the Appalachian Mountain Club. Alex served on the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council for five years and he is currently a trustee of The Nature Conservancy - Vermont Chapter.
Scott Shell, AIA, LEED AP
Principal
EHDD Architecture
Scott Shell is a Principal at EHDD Architecture specializing in educational projects including housing, laboratories, libraries, and schools. His current projects include the Chartwell School, CSU Monterey Bay Main Library, Ideas Zero Energy Office, Marin County Day School, the Stanford Green Dorm, and a biomedical lab at UC Santa Cruz. Scott is a nationally recognized expert on high performance and sustainable design, and directs the firm's sustainable design efforts. His emphasis is on creating beautiful and people-friendly spaces providing excellent natural lighting, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality. He works to accomplish this while significantly reducing the environmental impacts of energy use, carbon emissions, and materials selection. Scott has written and lectured widely on sustainable design topics ranging from The Feasibility of Factor 10 Resource Reduction to Zero Carbon Buildings. Scott received a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Auburn University, a Master of Arts in Humanities from Stanford University, and studied Tamil language and culture at the University of Chicago and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Madurai.
Vivian Loftness, FAIA, LEED AP
University Professor
School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Vivian is a University Professor at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Researcher with the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. She is an internationally renowned researcher, author and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture. From 1994-2004, she was Head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Supported by the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, she is a key contributor to the development of the Intelligent Workplace - a living laboratory of commercial building innovations for performance. She has served on six National Academy of Science panels as well as being a member of the Academy’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and given three Congressional testimonies on sustainable design. Her work has influenced both national policy and building projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the U.S. General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricity de France. Vivian received the 2002 National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and a 2003 “Sacred Tree” Award from the U.S. Green Building Council. Vivian Loftness has a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Architecture from MIT, is on the National Boards of the USGBC, AIACOTE (2005 national chair), TSAC, Turner Construction, and DOE’s Federal Energy Management Advisory Council (FEMAC).
Lance Hosey, AIA, LEED AP
Director
William McDonough + Partners
Lance Hosey is a Director with William McDonough + Partners in Charlottesville, VA. His independent design work has been featured in Metropolis magazine’s “Next Generation” series and Architectural Record’s “emerging architect” series. He sits on advisory boards for the AIA Committee on the Environment and Ecobuild America. His essays on the environmental and social aspects of design have appeared in the Washington Post, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Architecture magazine, and he is a regular columnist for Architect. With Kira Gould, he is co-author of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone Publishing, 2007).
A. R. Ann Kosmal, AIA, LEED AP
General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service Office of Applied Science
Based on her diverse experience in private sector commercial architecture and Disney Imagineering, Ann has a specialized knowledge in the area of high performance design from direct implementation of LEED and an extensive personal study of various sustainable design methodologies. She now applies these methodologies in the General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service (PBS) Office of Applied Science as part of Sustainable Design. PBS is the largest public real estate organization in the country. It has an inventory of over 342 million square feet of workspace for 1.1 million federal employees in 2,100 American communities. Ms. Kosmal is an architect licensed in California as well as Virginia. She is an active member of the U.S. Green Building Council – National Capital Region Chapter.
Martin J. Kooistra
Martin J. Kooistra has been working in various capacities with Habitat for Humanity for more than 16 years including local affiliate leadership, field supervision and support, and headquarters program and curriculum development. Marty served as Knowledge and Content Manager for Habitat for Humanity University. Until November, Marty was the Director of HFHI’s Construction and Environmental Resources Department. Marty was recently a Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University where he conducted research and analysis positioning Habitat for Humanity in the context of affordable housing initiatives and, with Professor Jane Wei-Skillern of the Harvard Business School, analyzed the role of networks in multi-site non-profits. He is presently serving on the Operation Home Delivery leadership team as Vice-President of Collaborations and Strategic Partnerships, helping to forge alliances to alleviate the huge need in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
