ICEhouse Showcases the Ideas of Cradle to Cradle to the World Economic Forum
Conceived by William McDonough and Partners, the ICEhouse pavilion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is designed to be disassembled and reassembled at the next event, reducing waste and use of raw materials. The ICEhouse served as an educational and functional gathering space showcasing an experimental structural system that could be used to […]
Staengl Engineering and Topia Design win 1st place in GVGBC’s Green Spaces Design Competition 2015
We are excited to announce that our design of the “Clifton Forge Enrichment Center” won 1st place in the 10th Green Spaces competition. Special thanks and congratulations to our collaborator Greg Jackson of Topia Design! Check out the project page for more information.
Jefferson Houston Elementary School Earns State Award
The Virginia School Boards Association’s Exhibition of School Architecture recognized the Jefferson Houston Elementary School project designed by VMDO Architects with the 2015 Platinum Design Award. The award was presented at the VSBA Annual Convention in Williamsburg, VA. Staengl Engineering constructed a detailed energy model of the building and provided energy analysis and consulting services […]
Green Building October 10th Luncheon: Advanced Energy Design Guide: Net Zero Energy
The march of technology has brought buildings that generate just as much power as they annually consume (Net Zero Energy) really close to the mainstream. A team of professionals are developing a roadmap for builders, owners, and designers to make it easier to take the leap to Zero. Steve Davis is a nationally recognized leader […]
Jefferson Houston Elementary School Awarded LEED Gold Certification
In August 2015, the USGBC officially awarded LEED Gold certification to the Jefferson Houston Elementary School in Alexandria, VA. Opened in September 2014, the new 125,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility serves students in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. Staengl Engineering constructed a detailed energy model of the building and provided energy analysis and consulting services to […]
Sustainability TreeHouse
Check out this awesome video of the vertical axis wind turbines being lifted into place for the Sustainability TreeHouse!
Staengl Engineering Nominated for USGBC Best of Building Award
We are very excited that Staengl Engineering has been nominated for a USGBC Best of Building Award in the category of “Best Engineering Firm – Small”. If you’d like to support us, you can vote here (http://www.usgbc.org/best-of-building); the voting period runs from August 4th until August 22nd. Only USGBC members can vote. We appreciate your […]
Tree House Teaches Sustainability at the Bechtel Summit Reserve
In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America made conservation a stronger focus of the organization by introducing a new sustainability merit badge and opening an educational center in the 10,600-acre Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia (http://www.summitblog.org/). Using the Living Building Challenge as a guide (a rigorous set of construction standards similar to LEED), Seattle-based […]
ecoMOD South Wins Architect Magazine Award
ecoMOD South, a grant-funded initiative of UVA’s ecoMOD Project, has won Architect Magazine’s 2013 Research & Development Award. In 2011, the ecoMOD project received half of a $2.45 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission Indemnification & Community Revitalization Commission to commercialize an adaptation of a home designed by the ecoMOD4 student team in 2009 […]
The Crossings Receives Governor’s Housing Award
The Crossings received the 2012 Virginia Housing Award for the Best Affordable Housing Energy Conservation Effort. The award was presented at the Governor’s conference on Housing at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, VA on Friday, November 15th. The building is a 60 unit, single room occupancy multi-family building to house low income residents in Charlottesville, […]