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Renewable Energy & Sustainable Design in Buildings Awards
Recognizing building owners, builders, and construction
companies for
innovative use of renewable energy in buildings.
2012 AWARD - NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES
CRES Call for Entries (PDF)
Entry Form (PDF)
WINNERS OF 2011 CRES AWARDS FOR
“Renewable Energy and
Sustainable Design in Buildings”
Category: Single Family Residential
Winner: Michael Kracauer, LEED AP,
Architropic Architects
Project: NZE
House
Address:
4828 6th Street, Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 720 235 6736
E-mail:
architrop@aol.com
Category: Single Family
Residential—Honorable Mention
Winner: Jim Logan
Project: Logan-Wiggins House 3
Address: 3014 13th St, Boulder CO 90302
Phone: 303 444 1162
E-mail:
jim@jlogan.com
Category: Multi-Family Residential
Winner: MetroWest Housing Solutions
Project: Creekside West Apartment Building
Address: 575 Union Blvd,, Lakewood, CO 80228
Phone: 303 987 7782
E-mail:
ryamcc@mwhsolutions.org
Category: Commercial
Winner: Rocky Mountain Innosphere, Olexa
Tkachenko, architect
Project: Rocky Mountain Innosphere
Address: 320 East Vine St., Fort Collins, CO
80524
Phone: 970
443 5289
E-mail:
ot@previewap.com
Category: Institutional
Winner: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Project: Research Support Facility
Address: 1617 Cole Blvd, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303 275 3859
E-mail:
Janice.rooney@nrel.gov
Institutional |
Residential |
Previous Winners
CRES Announces the Winners
of its Renewable Energy in Buildings Awards for 2010
The Colorado Renewable Energy Society is
proud to present the winners of its 2010 Renewable
Energy in Buildings Awards, recognizing building owners,
builders, and construction companies for innovative use
of renewable energy in buildings.
Institutional
Category:
Brighton Library, Rangeview Library District
 Through
a combination of energy efficient features, the new
20,000-square-foot library in Brighton, Colorado, is the
first carbon-positive library in the United States and
first carbon-positive public building in Colorado.
With geothermal heating & cooling, a
108-kW solar photovoltaic system, purchase of carbon
credits, and a collaborative spirit, the building is the
new benchmark for libraries around the country and
public buildings in Colorado. “The Brighton Library
project has set a new energy high mark for libraries and
library systems nationwide,” said Ambient Energy
President Renee Azerbegi. “People are talking. While
this project represents the kind of work we do every
day, this building is special because all the separate
efficiency efforts came together to make a
never-before-seen impact.”
 Total
energy cost savings on this taxpayer-funded project will
be upwards of $30,000 per year. The library saves 31% of
carbon usage through energy efficiency compared to
energy standard ASHRAE 90.1-2004. The photovoltaic
system offsets about 36% of the building's projected
carbon usage.
And with the two years of green power
credits purchased by Fransen Pittman General
Contractors, the building offsets 16% more carbon than
it uses! Ambient Energy's Mike Kaufman calculated that
the library will operate without emitting pollutants
because of renewable energy and carbon credits. The
project will offset the emission of an additional
167,620 lbs. of CO2 created by other buildings in the
community.
Ambient Energy, energy consultant to
Humphries Poli Architects, P.C., performed energy,
renewable energy, and daylight simulation to optimize
the design. Additionally, the firm is also coordinating
the LEED process, submitted for a LEED for New
Construction Version 2.2 Gold level rating. The client,
Anythink Libraries, aims to make all of its future
facilities carbon positive.
Project Team:
- Ambient Energy
www.ambient-e.com
- Anythink Libraries
www.anythinklibraries.org/location/anythink-brighton
- Humphries Poli Architects
www.hparch.com
- ME Engineers
www.me-engineers.com
- Wember, Inc.
www.wemberinc.com
Residential
Category:
Silver Sage Village Cohousing, Boulder
 Silver
Sage Village Cohousing is actively working to extend the
benefits of sustainable, mixed-income, community based
design to seniors, who are often underserved in suburban
society. The community was built, socially and
architecturally, by a consensus process in which all 16
households engaged with the architect and the developer
to design their homes.
Silver Sage serves needs for a community
with a high standard of active living while leaving a
minimal environmental footprint. The 2300 square-foot
common house features a dining room with a gourmet
kitchen and courtyard grill, a living room with a
fireplace, a media room, an exercise room, two guest
rooms, laundry facilities, and a sunken garden with a
hot tub. Wheelchair accessibility is maintained
throughout by a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient
elevator.
 Despite
the ambitious program, much of the 0.8-acre site is
given to gardens and a landscaped central courtyard. The
buildings are brought to the perimeter to take part in
the street front of the Holiday Neighborhood to tie into
the People’s Clinic project, and to maintain peace in
the site’s interior. Units are double-sided, facing both
the street and the commons. Throughout the site,
rainwater is directed to the landscape, where two
detention ponds return runoff to the earth (one doubles
as a small amphitheater). Acoustic detailing of the
party walls and floors maintains privacy between units,
allowing the buildings to achieve a compact footprint
for conservation of land, energy and materials.
Activities and meals will be ongoing in the common
house, reducing the need to drive.
Great attention was paid to passive and
active energy systems, and the project will use
significantly less energy and water than an IECC
compliant project of the same size. Like those who have
gone before them into cohousing, Silver Sagers are
likely to drive 30% less, pay 50% less for utilities and
use 40% less water than most Americans. Silver Sage aims
to participate in the full diversity of the Holiday
neighborhood by offering a range of units, from 862 to
2794 square feet, 40% of which will be affordable
through the City of Boulder’s program. Serving a
diversity of incomes and needs is a key to helping the
ideas honed at Silver Sage penetrate the mainstream
market in senior housing.
Project Team:
- BASE
www.basestructural.com
- Bryan Bowen Architects, P.C.
www.bryanbowenarchitects.com
- Charles Keim & Associates
www.collinsengr.com/Pages/Keim%20Acquisition%20Announcement.htm
- Johnson and Robertson, Inc.
www.jrcustombuilders.com
- McCamant and Durrett Architects
www.mccamant-durrett.com
- Silvertip Integrated Engineering
Consultants
www.silvertipconsultants.com
- Wonderland Hill Development Company
www.whdc.com
Previous Winners of the Renewable Energy in Buildings Award
CRES has presented the Colorado Renewable Energy in Buildings
Award since 1999. The winning entries of the buildings
awards represent some of the best architecture and
low-energy design in Colorado.
See examples of winning
entries in the categories of institutional and commercial
buildings:
The residential buildings that CRES has recognized with the Colorado
Renewable Energy in Buildings Award combine beautiful home design with
low energy consumption. See, for example:
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