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Natural Talent Design Competition 2010 |
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USGBC's Natural Talent Design Competition provides applied learning experience in the principles of integrated design, sustainability, and innovation, all of which are components of the LEED® Green Building Rating System™. Participants compete in local competitions, and the top winner of each moves on to compete for a national award at USGBC’s annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo.
The Salvation Army joins the U.S. Green Building Council this year in hosting USGBC‘s 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition. Entrants will design an affordable, 800 square foot green home for an elderly client in the Broadmoor, New Orleans neighborhood. Through its EnviRenew initiative , The Salvation Army is kicking off a large-scale residential green building campaign in five neighborhoods in New Orleans, facilitating the construction of 125 new homes and the renovation of 125 existing homes over the next three years through the provision of grant financing to homebuyers and homeowners. EnviRenew identifies sustainability as a critical component of comprehensive neighborhood recovery and engages green building issues within broader discussions regarding affordable housing, community capacity, neighborhood renewal and storm-resilience.
The Salvation Army and the U.S. Green Building Council recognize that financially vulnerable individuals, families, and neighborhoods are particularly in need of the benefits that sustainable design and green building practices bring. This partnership challenges entrants to design homes that demonstrate both short-term and long-term affordability, a high quality of life for their residents, and replicable strategies that contribute to our understanding of how to build affordably, efficiently and with minimal impact on the environment.
Competitors will be divided into students and
young professionals categories. Up
to four designs will be selected from the local competition finalists
to be showcased at Greenbuild 2010 and, for the first time, the
designers will see their projects built in New Orleans’ Broadmoor
neighborhood. Once the homes are built, they will enter a measurement
and verification phase in which they will be graded on energy
efficiency, water reuse, and indoor air quality among other categories.
The design team whose home performs best during measurement and
verification will be awarded the final grand prize.
The Competition in Northern CaliforniaUSGBC - Northern California Chapter and Emerging Green Builders - Northern California are holding a local Natural Talent Design Competition. Participants will create a design based on the challenge and the winners will move on to compete in the National Competition.
Winners will be announced in July, at which time a reception will be held and the local winners will be awarded prizes.
Eligibility & Categories
The competition is divided into two categories this year:
Student Category: Students must be currently enrolled in a
full-time, accredited undergraduate or graduate program in the
following fields relating to residential design and building:
architecture, architectural drafting, landscape architecture, building
design, interior design, urban planning, construction, construction
management, engineering, affordable housing, disability/elderly
services, business (BBA/MBA), economics, or marketing/ communications.
Students must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Those
who qualify in this capacity may only compete in the Student category
and Students teams may only be made up of Students.
Emerging Professional Category:
Emerging Professionals must be no more than 5 years out of most recent
schooling and be employed in one of the following fields relating to
residential design and building: architecture, landscape architecture,
building design, interior design, urban planning, construction,
construction management, engineering, affordable housing, housing
policy, disability/elderly services, real estate development, or
marketing/communications. Emerging Professionals must be 18 years of
age or older at the time of entry. Those who qualify in this capacity
may only compete in the Emerging Professionals category and Emerging
Professionals teams may only be made up of Emerging Professionals.
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Dates & Deadlines
- January 2010: Registration for the Natural Talent Design Competition 2010 open on OpenArchitectureNetwork.org
- March 1st, 2010: Early Registration Deadline
- May 31st, 2010: Final Registration Deadline & Projects Due
- July 2010: Chapter Competition Winners Announced and Celebrated at Chapter Reception, Local Finalists posted on OpenArchitectureNetwork.org and USGBC.org
- August 29th, 2010: Four Winning Designs Notified
- September 3rd, 2010: All Projects Notified of Status
- November Greenbuild 2010: Public Unveiling of Final Designs
- 2011: Final two winners announced
Past Competitions
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About the Natural Talent Design CompetitionThe Natural
Talent Design Competition (NTDC) is a nationwide design challenge that
was started in 2003 by the USGBC's Emerging Green Builders program. The
competition began as a vehicle for young designers to gain applied
learning experience in the principles of integrated design,
sustainability, and innovation, all of which are components of USGBC’s
LEED® Green Building Rating System™.
Students and emerging
professionals from all over the United States and other countries
compete in local competitions hosted by USGBC local chapters. These
local chapters convene a panel of judges who work in the design and
construction fields and have LEED project experience. International
teams are matched up with chapters on a case by case basis.
The winners from each local competition move on to compete for a
national grand prize and recognition throughout the USGBC community.
Past winners have included teams from New York City, North Carolina,
Colorado, Boston, Phoenix, The District of Columbia, and Ontario,
Canada.
Since its inception, the Natural Talent Design Competition has focused
on many different design challenges around the country and has grown
and evolved in each subsequent year. Despite this growth, the
competition has maintained its core values of including the young
designers of the world and working to establish a more sustainable
built environment.
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