FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2011

The FuturArc Green Leadership Award (formerly known as the BCI Green Design Award) recognises the team behind a completed project: the developer, consultants and contractors who have collectively pushed the limits and definition of what a Green building is in Asia. The competition seeks to award teams that have demonstrated the best in innovation and environmental stewardship in architecture. The competition was held from September to 30 November 2010.

The FuturArc Green Leadership Award is given to completed projects that espouse principles of sustainability that are both innovative and contextually sensitive. It offers the building industry a showcase of viewpoints—converging roadmaps to the larger goals of ecological design—as represented by the journey taken by each project team that turned its ideas into reality.

The projects must be located within Asia or Australia, and are completed between 1st January 2007 and 31st December 2010. The jury looks at how materials, strategies, systems and technologies are integrated in an imaginative manner, resulting in a climate responsive, user-centric architecture that is both functional and a delight to the senses.

There are five competition categories for the entries:
• Residential Architecture – Individual Houses
• Residential Architecture – Multiple Houses
• Commercial Architecture
• Institutional Architecture
• Interior Architecture

FuturArc trophies have also been given out to the winners at the BCI Asia Awards ceremonies held across the region in May 2011.

Jury Chair | FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2011

	Nirmal Kishnani, PhD, is Chief Editor of the FuturArc Journal. He is an advocate, educator and practitioner in the field of Green building design, presently with the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore where he holds the appointment of Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of the Master of Science in Integrated Sustainable Design. He has lectured and written widely on the subject of Green design process. Since 2002—when he founded one of the first dedicated Green design consultancy operating in and out of Asia—he has consulted on/for many projects and organisations in the region including the Asian Development Bank and United Nations Environment Programme. Dr Kishnani sits on several advisory panels in Southeast Asia, active in the development of policy instruments and capacity building in the Green building industry. Dr. Kishnani is also Jury Chair of FuturArc Prize 2011 and a juror for the Emerson Cup.
	Deo Prasad, PhD, is Professor and the Director of the Sustainable Development Program at the University of New South Wales. He has worked on milestone projects including Australia’s first solar village, scientific validation of computer simulation tools for energy performance prediction of buildings and related green building assessment tools, advanced performance simulation of buildings using complex modelling software and the Green Olympics projects. He has won an Australian National Research Innovation Award, the NSW Government 2004 Green Globe Award and the Australian Institute of Architects 2006 National Award for research, design and education in sustainability.
	Kevin Hydes is the CEO of Integral Group a Global Building Engineering firm with an industry leading seven LEED Platinum completed projects focused on DEEP GREEN solutions. He served as Chair of the USGBC from 2005-2006, Chair of WGBC from 2007-2008 and is a founder and director of CanadaGBC. Hailing from Leeds in the UK, Kevin has focused on green design for the past 15 years. His vision led to the first LEED Gold certified project in Canada, the first LEED-EB Gold certified project in North America, and the successful completion of dozens of projects worldwide. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, and an adjunct professor at McGill University School of Architecture.He is an advisor to both the Clinton Carbon Positive Communities program and One Planet Living. He is a member of the Singapore govt. international Panel of Advisors.