BPN magazine has announced an impressive line-up of environmental building design experts as judges for the BPN Sustainability Awards 2011.
Jurors include Bill Dowzer, Principal architect at leading Australian firm BVN; Dick Clarke, Director of sustainable building consultancy Envirotecture; and Dr Chris Reardon, academic and practicing sustainable building expert.
Each of the jurors has established a strong commitment to a sustainable built environment throughout their careers, a fact which dovetails with the Awards’ objectives: to support ESD initiatives and recognise companies who are striving to create a more sustainable environment.
Now in its fifth year, the BPN Sustainability Awards continues to reward designers and builders for best practice in projects across Australia.
Winners of the Awards will be announced at a gala dinner in Sydney on 13 October, and will be published in a a winners edition of BPN Magazine in December
Bill Dowzer
Currently the director of BVN’s Sydney studio, Bill Dowzer is a recognised leader in architecture and the winner of several awards, including the Banksia Award for Leadership in Sustainable Buildings.
Dowzer has been involved in the design and direction of numerous award winning projects ranging from public and educational buildings to commercial work environments. He has developed specialist expertise in the design of new workplace environments which incorporate a high degree of user consultation in the development of sustainable design strategies.
Dick Clarke
Dick Clarke is principal of Envirotecture and an accredited building designer with 35 years experience, focusing exclusively on ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate buildings. A multi-award winning designer, he holds a Master of Sustainable Futures degree by research (from the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS), having pursued the topic of the effect of state and local planning instruments on the sustainability of the built environment.
Clarke is an ACF Climate Change Volunteer presenter of Australia’s Inconvenient Truth, having trained with Al Gore in November of 2006.
The Director of Sustainability of the Building Designers Association of NSW (BDA) and past President of the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA).
Clarke is involved with various government and non-government bodies on environmental issues and the built environment. He represented the BDA on the NatHERS-AccuRate Technical Advisory Committee, and on the BASIX Reference Group.
Chris Reardon
After completing undergraduate studies in architecture and ecology, leading to a degree in environmental design, Chris Reardon spent 25 years as a design practitioner and builder specialising in energy efficient, sustainable built environment solutions through his multi-award winning practice, Suntech Design.
In his action research PhD, Reardon used innovation diffusion theory to examine and create sustainable change in the Australian housing sector. He is principal author of the Banksia Award winning Your Home sustainable design guide and currently specialises in ESD training and a sustainable design/construction consultancy to industry.
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