USGBC Names LEED Homes Award Winners

Washington, DC, June 29, 2016—The USGBC announced the recipients of its annual LEED Homes Awards, which recognizes projects, architects, developers and homebuilders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation in the residential green building marketplace.

The LEED Homes Award winners include multi-family, single-family and affordable housing projects and companies that are trailblazers in the residential sector and have prioritized incorporating sustainability within their projects in 2015. This year, for the first time, the awards also recognize the LEED Homes Power Builders, which USGBC developed to honor an elite group of developers and builders who have exhibited an outstanding commitment to LEED and the green building movement within the residential sector. In order to be considered as a Power Builder, developers and builders must have LEED-certified 90 percent of their homes/unit count built in 2015. Homes at any LEED certification level—certified, silver, gold or platinum—were eligible for consideration.

Project of the Year: The Woodlawn, Portland, Oregon (developed by SolTerra)

Outstanding Single-Family Project: The Taft School Faculty Residence, Watertown, Connecticut (Trillium Architects, BPC Green Builders, Steven Winter Associates)

Outstanding Single-Family Builder: Frankel Building Group, Houston, Texas

Outstanding Affordable Builder: National Church Residence, Columbus, Ohio

Outstanding Affordable Project: Brookside Village Housing, Farmington, Maine (Brookside Partners LP; Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure—Herbert Semple; AIA Architect/Project Manager; Pinkham & Greer Consulting Engineers—Tom Greer, PE; H. E. Callahan Construction Co—Jeff Ohler)

Outstanding Multifamily Project: Tilley Lofts, Watervliet, New York

(Redburn Development; Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction; Harris A. Sanders, Architects, P.C.)

Outstanding Multifamily Developer: Forest City Realty Trust, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio

LEED Homes Power Builders (*Represents a company that also won a LEED Homes Award): AMLI Residential; Bijou Properties; Bronx Pro Real Estate Management; Buckingham Companies; Cottage Homes; Fore Property Company; Forest City*; Frankel Building Group*; Gerding Edlen; Habitat for Humanity (Charlotte); Habitat for Humanity (Dallas); Habitat for Humanity (Kent County); Habitat for Humanity (Matthews); Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services; JCB Homes; John Marshall Custom Homes; McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. (MHI)–Austin; McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. (MHI)–Dallas Fort Worth; McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. (MHI)–San Antonio; National Church Residences*; Sullivan Brother Builders; The Dinerstein Companies; The Hudson Companies, Inc.; Uptown Rentals; and RPM Development Group.

To learn more about LEED for Homes, visit usgbc.org/homes.

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