Judges
Brad Guy, AIA (Jury Chair)
President
Building Materials Reuse Association
Architect Brad Guy has been a pivotal force in researching and advancing design for deconstruction and building materials reuse. Brad is a PhD candidate in Building Performance and Diagnostics program at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously Director of Operations of the Hamer Center of the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and 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 numerous national 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.
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.
Candice Moore Groves, AIA, LEED AP
Commercial Green Building Services Project Manager
Southface Energy Institute
Candice has over 10 years of architecture and planning experience and has worked on a wide variety of commercial building types including office, hospitality, medical, civic, religious, and education. She is currently working on the Energy Star program as a follow-up to the Energy Smart Schools program where she works with school systems in Georgia to save energy in their facilities. She has worked with the Metro Atlanta YMCA on a number of LEED YMCA facilities. Candice also worked directly with the USGBC in registering the Atlantic Station commercial buildings as a pilot project in the LEED for Campus program. She has conducted numerous charrettes and trainings for commercial building owners, architects, engineers, and contractors. She holds a masters degree in architecture from the Savannah College of Art & Design and is involved with the Atlanta AIA Committee of the Environment.
Aaron Tvrdy, Associate AIA
2007 Lifecycle Building Challenge Student Winner
Aaron is a 2007 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture, undergraduate and graduate programs. His thesis focus was on reclaiming materials and converting them to architectural components without having to reprocess the waste material first. Aaron is currently a Project Coordinator with HDR Architecture in Chicago, he has have been involved in the design and documentation of a new cardiac hospital project in Libertyville, IL. He is currently pursuing implementing some of his sustainable ideas into a custom woodworking furniture company out of Chicago. Aaron has been a member of the Army National Guard since 2001, he is currently an officer with an Engineering Battalion located in southern IL. As a former participant and winner of the initial LBC competition he will try to bridge the gap between students and professionals. Aaron takes a hands-on approach to sustainable design and encourages conceptual even unconventional solutions. He believes his generation has received a great challenge; they must initiate, develop, implement and execute a sustainable revolution that makes a significant contribution to saving our resources. He believes this competition takes great strides towards that solution.
