Fifteen housing industry professionals were honored at a gala dinner on May 17 at the 12th annual NAHB National Green Building Conference in Raleigh, N.C.

“With these awards, we recognize the leaders of this industry,” said NAHB Chairman Bob Jones, who welcomed more than 170 guests to the event. “These builders, remodelers, developers and green advocates have blazed a path in sustainable construction — and we’re all the better for it,” he said.

The winners were greeted with cheers and a bright green, recycled glass statue to take back to their offices — and in some cases, more celebrations on their arrival back home. Pardee Homes, winners of the Group Advocate of the Year award, held a balloon-filled party for its Los Angeles employees to congratulate them on their win.

“At Pardee Homes we have shown that a production builder can bring green building into the mainstream and make a large contribution to energy, water and resource conservation,” said Pardee’s Joyce Mason, who accepted the award on behalf of her company.

Individual Project Awards

Four single-family home projects were honored:

• The Charity Works Greenhouse, designed by the Washington, D.C.-based firm Cunningham/Quill Architects, as Project of the Year — Single-Family, Custom/Luxury
  
  
• The Cottage, a project by J.R. Construction Building & Design LLC of Petoskey, Mich., as Project of the Year — Single-Family, Custom/Affordable
  
  
• Model NOGM4, a home in Marietta, Ga., constructed by New World Home, as Project of the Year — Single-Family, Production/Luxury
  
  
• Rosewood Hills, from Mungo Construction LLC of Columbia, S.C., as Project of the Year — Single-Family, Production/Affordable

Two multifamily projects were also honored. In the Multifamily Luxury category, the award went to Circle at Concord Mills in Concord, N.C., developed by Crescent Resources LLC of Charlotte, N.C. Gundaker Commercial Group, Inc. took the Multifamily Affordable Award for Wingate Manor, an apartment complex in Shiloh, Ill.

Fishhawk Ranch, a residential subdivision in Lithia, Fla., developed by Newland Communities, was honored as the Green Development of the Year.

Advocacy Awards

Remodeler Philip Beere of Green Street Development in Phoenix went home with two honors: The Green Remodeling Project of the Year and Green Remodeling Advocate of the Year.

Chapel Hill, N.C., builder Michael Chandler of Chandler Design-Build was honored as the Builder Advocate of the Year. Pardee Homes of Los Angeles was named Corporate Advocate of the Year. Individual Advocate of the Year honors went to John Barrows of Wainscott, N.Y.

Platte County, Mo., was named the State/Local Government Advocate of the Year for its innovative green incentive programs.

The Home Builders Association of Delaware Green Building Council was named the New Green Building Program of the Year, while the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C., area Green Home Builders of the Triangle, hosts of this year’s conference events, took home the Program of the Year honors.

Sponsored by Broan-NuTone, Dow Building Solutions and Mohawk Industries, this year’s awards event was emceed by Michele Myers, a founding member of both the Green Home Builders of the Triangle and the state green building council.

“We look for inspiration from the winners of the NAHB National Green Building Awards,” Myers told attendees. “Whether they are honored for exceptional design, innovative technique or their excellent advocacy efforts, tonight’s winners are helping all of us toward a greener future.”

For more information, e-mail Calli Schmidt at NAHB, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8132.

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