Awards & Achievements

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EASTERN VILLAGE COHOUSING

• 2006 Livable Communities Green Roof of the Year
• First place from Affordable Housing Conference for rehab
• NAHB 2005 GREEN PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD: National Association of Home Builders for Luxury Multifamily Homes.*
• 2005 Excellence in Design Award for Multi-Use Residential Development, from Environmental Design + Construction, the only magazine exclusively covering the rapidly growing green building industry.
• LEED Silver rating for environmental performance, certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, making Eastern Village one of the few residential buildings in the U.S. to attain this rating.
• 2003 Smart Growth Award from Smart Growth Alliance (Washington Sustainable Growth Alliance).**

TAKOMA VILLAGE COHOUSING

• Vision 2002 Award: for innovation and energy savings.
  From The Committee of 100 on the Federal City.
• Energy Star Homes Program 2001: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Certifies each of the 43 residential units of Takoma Village Cohousing as an Energy Star Home based on its HERS rating.
• PATH Demonstration Site 2000
  The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, chose Takoma Village Cohousing as one of the first 11 projects nationally to earn the status of Demonstration Site. Status included technical support services and participation in the Energy Star Homes Program.
  Press Release 3/23/2001   Final Report 12/21/2001
  (Both files are in Adobe Acrobat format. Download Free.)
  

PRESENTATIONS

• "Residential Case Study: Takoma Village Cohousing" by Don Tucker at the first annual Maryland Green Building Conference, Annapolis, MD, September 2002
• DOE High Performance Buildings Database
  Detailed case study on national website highlighting green and efficient building measures of Takoma Village Cohousing
• "The Costs of Building Green: Takoma Village, A Residential Case Study" by Sandra Leibowitz, at the Virginia AIA's (American Institute of Architecture) Build Virginia Conference, Richmond, VA, November 2000

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* NAHB Green Project of the Year: Luxury Multifamily
Awarded to the company that develops green built luxury condominiums or apartments, this honor was presented to Ecohousing and Poretsky Builders in Bethesda, Md. The company involved future residents in the design of the Eastern Village Cohousing Condominiums, which were converted from a four-story, U-shaped concrete-frame office building. The new residences maintain the same U-shape design, but added green features including a front façade with a sunshade and a “living” roof with plants to control rainwater runoff and provide thermal protection.

** Smart Growth Award: Eastern Village Cohousing is a development involving the rehabilitation of a distressed office building into a mixed-use condominium project providing 55 residential units, common facilities, and 12,000 square feet of office and artist space. As yet, 36 of the 55 available units have been reserved. Substantial "green" technology will be incorporated in the construction to conserve energy; and trellises and a garden are planned for the site.