NREL Wins Design Excellence 2006 Award

Monday, July 24, 2006

NREL's efforts to reduce overall energy consumption and achieve leadership in sustainable building design paid off as Colorado's Jefferson County Board of Commissioners on July 24 presented its Science & Technology Facility (S&TF) with the Commissioners' Award at the Design Excellence 2006 Awards ceremony. The award recognizes the facility as an outstanding development project with county-wide and regional significance.

"NREL's mission is to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies through R&D," said Pete Sheldon, the S&TF technical project manager, as he accepted the award on behalf of the laboratory along with Eric Telesmanich and Janice Rooney. "As part of that mission, it is also important that we 'walk the talk' and integrate these technologies into the facilities that we build, and with the S&TF we have done that."

The Design Excellence Awards program honors creative and innovative site design in the development community. The program includes not only the Commissioners' Award but also honor awards and merit awards.

Jefferson County received more than 30 entries for this year's Design Excellence program. Entries were judged by a professional panel whose members include the American Planning Association, American Institute of Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects, and Jefferson County staff, among others.