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  2007 NCARB GRAND PRIZE FOR CREATIVE INTEGRATION OF PRACTICE AND EDUCATION IN THE ACADEMY, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, $25,000 Grand Prize given to the ecoMOD Project in recognition of efforts to creatively link education and practice. The jury consists of six architecture school deans or directors, and six practicing architects. The jury emphasized their appreciation of the project’s integration of research, design, education and sustainability.

2007 AIA EDUCATION HONOR AWARD
, American Institute of Architects, the ecoMOD Project, to honor exceptional and innovative courses, initiatives, or programs that deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community; contribute to the advancement of architecture education; have the potential to benefit and/or change practice; and/or promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other educators.

2006-07 ACSA COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AWARD, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the ecoMOD Project, to honor the best practices in school-based community outreach programs

2007 GO GREEN HONOR AWARD, James River Green Building Council, the top design award in the built project category.

2007 GO GREEN GRANT AWARD, James River Green Building Council, to support green upgrades for ecoMOD3 project.

2006 BEST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT, Virginia Sustainable Building Network, the ecoMOD Project.

FINALIST, President’s Higher Education Award for Excellence in General Community Service, ecoMOD Project included as one of five initiatives at the University of Virginia that were recognized in this national award program sponsored by the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service, the U.S. Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

P3 AWARD, U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Phase 1 grant recipient (2005), and Phase 2 Honorable Mention (2006), Evaluation Phase of ecoMOD1 house

2006 ECOLOGICAL LITERACY IN ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION, American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, Special Recognition, the ecoMOD project, funded by the Tides Foundation’s Kendeda Sustainability Fund

   
   
 
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