USGBC-MD Leadership in Green Building Award Won by BrickStainable!

Our team was ecstatic when we heard BrickStainable was the recipient of a leadership award given by the USGBC-MD Chapter.

Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) was truly honored to accept this Market Transformation Leadership Award at the 6th Annual Wintergreen Awards Celebration for Excellence in Green Building. Many of the members of the Competition design team were present to accept the award, including PVB’s president, Alan Richardson, competition consultant, Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP, and PVB’s very own Green Team.

Everyone celebrated the evening at Baltimore’s Thames Street Wharf (not too far from the BrickStainable project site). Nearly 500 people from the architecture, engineering and construction industries attended the Awards Celebration, which was headlined by keynote speaker, Scott Plank, Executive Vice President of Under Armour. (See Scott in this posts photo, third from the left!)

PVB’s president was quoted saying, “It’s an honor to be recognized alongside so many of our peers in this industry. We hope BrickStainable continues to spark innovative solutions for sustainable design in both in the U.S. and international architecture communities.”

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.