Industry Partners
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 10:59AM 
USGBC's Emerging Professionals has partnered with the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency to host the 5th annual Emerging Talent Design Competition. The competition requires participating teams to use shipping containers as building material and inspiration, in order to create sustainable and beautiful designs for a new multipurpose structure in Long Beach.
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 3:41PM
Design Green is a competition to honor projects that integrate exceptional design with new high performance standards for sustainability, LEED certified for their effectiveneww, while redefining architecture. The awards were announced recently at the AIA/LA Design Awards 2010. Sponsors for the 2010 awards were Louis Poulsen, Savings By Design, and American Commissioning Group, LLC. AFLA partnered with both USGBC-LA and AIA/LA.
The Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles is dedicated to bringing awareness about the value of architecture and related arts to the general public and design professionals. More details about the awards here. See images of the 2009 winners here.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 12:13PM 
A round of finalists has been selected from the first phase of the Natural Talent Design Competition, hosted by the the Salvation Army and the U.S. Green Building Council. A total of 49 designs were chosen as local finalists from 27 of USGBC's chapters. These 49 projects will now be assessed by the national jury, and winners will be announced on Monday, August 30. Entrants were invited to design an affordable, 800 square foot green home for an elderly client in the Broadmoor, New Orleans neighborhood.
The USGBC's 2010 Natural Design Competition is focused on the rebuilding effort in New Orleans. Up to four designs will be selected from the local competition finalists to be showcased at Greenbuild 2010 Expo and, for the first time, the designers will see their projects built in the Broadmoor neighborhood. Once the homes are built, they will enter a measurement and verification phase in which they will be graded on energy efficiency, water reuse, and indoor air quality among other categories. The design team whose home performs best during measurement and verification will be awarded the final grand prize in 2011.
Click here to see the entire list of finalists.
