Top Ten Reasons to Attend the BrickStainable Awards Ceremony!

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Get an upclose look at inspiring designs and advancements in sustainable design!

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Best networking opportunity of 2011 with the A/E/C community!

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Keynote speaker, Cambridge University Professor Alan Short will travel from the UK to speak at the program!

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Meet the winning teams from across the globe!

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Talk to the esteemed panel of jurors!

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Mingle with the BrickStainable visionaries Alan Richardson, Peter Doo & Rob Busler!

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Enjoy the National Building Museum (one of the most magnificent masonry structures in the world – 15 million bricks – 124 years old)!

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Fantastic cocktail reception, delicious dinner & drinks!

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Meet our incredible partners who helped us make BrickStainable possible!

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Spend an evening in Washington, DC and enjoy all the city has to offer!

Due to the nature of this event, limited tickets will be sold. We hope you will join us!
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Cleaner Buildings = Cleaner Air

The innovations in technology never cease to amaze us! One of the BrickStainable sponsors, Essroc Italcementi Group, has a product called TX Active that decomposes air pollutants as they react with the surface of a building. A natural chemical reaction, photo catalysis, results in self-cleaning and de-polluting. Talk about tremendous design benefits for the environment!

Martin Vachon, a returning juror to the BrickStainable Design Competition is a consultant to the producer making best use of the product in application. Martin has been involved with the research and reporting system efficiency.

After a decade of research at Essroc’s Bergamo, Italy plant TX Active came to market. There are numerous applications for this technology including vertical, horizontal, structural, and more.

To learn more about TX active, please visit their website or view their product data sheets.

Photo Credit: Dives in Misericordia Church (Rome, Italy), Richard Meier & Partners Architects. This was the first application of the photocatalytic principle, TX Active.

BrickStainable Presents at DC Convention, Summer 2010!

This past summer we were privileged enough to be invited back for the second time to present at the annual Washington, DC AIA hosted event, Design DC.

BrickStainable, in its 2nd year, decided an interactive panel discussion would be the best format to communicate our message and engage our supporters. The dynamic group included Potomac Valley Brick president, Alan Richardson, BrickStainable consultants, Peter Doo and Robert Busler (moderator), and a winner from BrickStainable 2009, Eric Haskins. (Eric joined us all the way from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only a few short months after Alan flew to New Mexico to talk with Eric about his patent-pending idea, involving brick, of course! Check out our previous blog post on this topic.)

The 90 minute, 1.5 AIA/CEU & USGBC/ GBCI certified presentation was attended by a crowd of architects, students, and 2009 BrickStainable sponsors. We captured some of the highlights from this panel discussion for you. Enjoy the video.

Feel free to check out the pictures from Design DC on Flickr.

Thank You for Helping Move BrickStainable and the Industry Forward!

Industry leaders Belden Brick, Boral Bricks, Carolina Ceramics, Cloud Ceramics, Continental Brick, Essroc Italcementi Group, Hanson Brick, Hyload, Lehigh Cement, Mortar Net, Owens-Corning, Palmetto Brick, Redland Brick and Triangle Brick are supporting the 2^nd Annual BrickStainable Design Competition. Their involvement and financial commitment help us continue to expand our educational outreach to a larger audience.

Sponsoring BrickStainable increases the partners’ visibility to a regional, national, and international audience; supports business development and networking opportunities; and, continues to promote inherently sustainable materials that can work together through integrative design to achieve energy efficient and environmentally conscious projects.

“I was fortunate enough to attend the first awards celebration for BrickStainable. I was impressed with [the event] PVB put together, and the way they promoted our product. To realize the magnitude of what they did to bring people together from all over the world for the initial competition was impressive. I only see this as a springboard to the future for promoting brick in not only the DC and Baltimore markets, but across the country [US].” – Bill Masters, Boral Bricks (1^st Annual Premier Sponsor)

Thank you very, very much to our contributing sponsors!

We will continue to challenge the design community, stimulate integrative and innovative thinking, and encourage designers to think critically about the materials they use in the creation of the building envelope.

Please give these businesses your support. And, if you are interested in learning how to become a sponsor yourself, please visit, http://www.brickstainable.com/sponsorships/become-a-sponsor.html or email SponsorBrickStainable@gmail.com.