[getsmart-l] Lifetime achievements in green building recognized at 3rd Annual Toronto Green Building Festival

[Media Release]

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Lifetime achievements in green building recognized at 3rd Annual 
Toronto Green Building Festival

(Toronto, Canada, October 25, 2007)  Three green building gurus-Peter 
Love, Janis Kravis and Doug Pollard-received Lifetime Achievement 
Awards today at the 3rd Annual Toronto Regional Green Building 
Festival at Ontario Place.

"The Lifetime Achievement Awards celebrate the success of visionaries 
who recognized the importance of sustainable buildings and energy 
efficiency years ago, and have been working to make green building a 
reality today," said Tom Ponessa, Director of Programs, Sustainable 
Buildings Canada.  "I'm honoured to present these awards to our winners."

Peter Love, Ontario's Chief Energy Conservation Officer, has enjoyed 
a long and distinguished career in the area of energy efficiency. As 
the Executive Director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, he 
was a leading national advocate for energy efficiency and its related 
benefits to the economy and the environment. No stranger to the 
concept of a "cultural shift," early in his career, Mr. Love worked 
as a project coordinator for Pollution Probe with the team that 
developed the concept "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."

Janis Kravis, of Janis Kravis Consultants Inc. in North York, has 
worked in environmental architecture since 1961, consulting with 
governments, corporations, individuals and communities to reduce 
their environmental impact and work toward restoration and 
sustainability.  He also formed the "Healthy Buildings Task Force" at 
the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He practices energy and 
resource conservation, design of healthy buildings and social and 
environmental responsibility. He is a proponent and practitioner of 
the Integrated Design Process that looks at a building as a whole 
system rather than the sum of its parts

Doug Pollard ran his own architectural practice in Toronto for thirty 
years prior to joining the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in 
1998 as a senior researcher in sustainable community planning. His 
practice focused on housing and small institutional projects 
demonstrating the potential for an intelligent use of land, 
resources, and finances, and optimizing opportunities for user 
participation in the design process. He chairs the National Housing 
Research Committee's working group on sustainable communities, which 
is exploring and developing the business case for sustainable development.

The awards ceremony, sponsored by the Cement Association of Canada 
and Enbridge, concluded the 2-day Green Building Festival. Michael 
Singleton, Executive Director of Sustainable Buildings Canada, 
remarked, "It has been an excellent conference. Not only did we 
recognize and celebrate the long-term contributions of green building 
leaders, we heard from leading innovators and producers on 
environmental sustainability, and hundreds of people attended the 
trade show which had over 70 exhibitors representing the leading edge 
of Canada's sustainable building industry."


Festival presented by the Green Building Alliance - Sustainable 
Buildings Canada  [GBF Secretariat], Canada Green Building Council 
Toronto Chapter, Toronto & Region Conservation, Canadian Urban Institute

PLATINUM SPONSORS: St. Lawrence Cement | the Holcim Awards for 
Sustainable Construction.  GOLD SPONSORS: Cement Association of 
Canada | IBI Group | Enbridge.  SILVER SPONSORS: CMHC | 
Icynene.  BRONZE SPONSORS: Demilec | Totten Sims Hubicki | Halsall | 
InterfaceFLOR | Tridel | Fed. Of Cdn Municipalities | Jain 
Sustainability Consultants | Reliable Controls | Cdn Sheet Steel 
Building Institute.  WITH SUPPORT FROM: Natural Resources Canada | 
Autodesk | TEDCO | Canadian Gas Association.


www.greenbuildingfest.com



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