Nearly two dozen King County employees have been honored for their roles in the county’s green building efforts, according to a press release from the county executive’s office.
The employees were honored for their work on Feb. 15 at the Green Building Summit in Tukwila, Wash.
The Excellence in Building Green Awards honor employees who contributed to protecting King County’s natural resources by actively applying green building techniques to their projects, including using recycled materials, salvaging old construction materials for future use and designing projects with minimal impacts to the environment.
The award winners for 2005 are:
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Cynthia Moffitt, King County Department of Development and Environmental Services—For raising awareness about sustainable development practices and instituting successful programs to further King County’s mission to support green building.
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Butch Lovelace, King County Parks Division—For his work to ensure Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for the Marymoor Maintenance Facility project.
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Bob Burns, Deputy Director of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks—For sponsoring the county-wide “green building team” and leading “Urban Green,” a non-profit organization that provides education and outreach on green building.
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Harbor Island Deconstruction Project Team—Francis Gaspay, Katie Spataro, Kinley Deller and Mike Long, for their work to ensure that two wood warehouse buildings of historical significance were deconstructed and the materials salvaged. More than 90 percent of the wood from the buildings was recycled or reused. The buildings had been slated for demolition because of safety concerns.
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Lakewood Family Center Team—Kevin Brown, Kurt Triplett, Jessie Israel, TJ Davis, Katie Spataro, DeSean Quinn and Sarah Jepson, for bringing cutting edge ideas in green design to the construction of a community center in King County’s Lakewood Park.
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Henderson/M.L. King CSO Project Team—Rick Andrews, Tim Goon, Alton Gaskill, Kathy Mathena and Christie True, for their work on this Wastewater Treatment Division project that is designed to help eliminate overflows from sewers to Lake Washington during extreme storms. The project was designed before the LEED program was impletmented in King County, but many components of the work contain green building elements.
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DDES Sustainably Landscaped Gardens Team—Karen May, Cynthia Moffitt and Doug Rice, for excellence in planning, designing and installing three sustainable landscaped gardens that use native and climate-adapted plans that require minimal additional watering.
More information is available online.