BACC Editor on Thursday, 09 December 2010 20:24

Build It Green Honors the Bay Area Climate Collaborative

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a Green Award from Build It Green. The award honors the BACC as a Green Building Leader in the Public Sector for its work to spur the adoption of baseline green building standards across the Bay Area. Since 2003, Build It Green has driven policy development on energy and resource efficient homes in California and has also been a reliable source for consumers seeking information on the benefits of green building. Each year, Build It Green holds its Green Building Awards Ceremony to recognize industry leaders for their contributions to green building and to highlight recent developments in the green building sector.

Through its recent region-wide assessment of green building standards adoption in cities and counties, the BACC established a green building adoption benchmark for the Bay Area. The BACC has also facilitated the development analyses of how CALGreen will work with existing green building standards and provided local government guidance on green building policy as it relates to the treatment of CALGreen.

The Green Building Awards Ceremony will be held at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on December 9 and will be honoring a number of industry leaders, such as Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, who has won the Legislative Advocate of the Year Award, and Mint Condition Homes, which has been awarded the Green Building Champion. Rafael Reyes, Director of the BACC, will be accepting the Green Building Leader Award and delivering comments at the ceremony this evening.