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International Green Building Challenge - 2002

Artist rendition of 20 River Terrace, the first "green" residential high-rise building under development, Battery Park City, New York, New York. The 2002 Green Building Challenge took place at the annual Sustainable Buildings Conference in Oslo, Norway, on September 23-25. Five building projects were chosen to represent the United States in 2002 based on the unique design and energy savings of these buildings. The five projects finally selected are listed below under U.S. Projects. Two of them are High Performance Buildings projects.

U.S. Team Projects
GB Tool and Manual
Participating Countries

U.S. Team Projects for 2002

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Executive Summary (PDF 127 KB)

  1. Clearview Elementary School,
    Hanover, Pennsylvania
    [Leaders: Marcus Sheffer and John Boecker]
    (PDF 1.0 MB)

  2. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Office Building,
    Annapolis, Maryland
    [Leader: Greg Mella]
    (PDF 679 KB)

  3. Big Horn Retail Store,
    Silverthorne, Colorado
    [Leader: Don Sather]
    (PDF 698 KB)

  4. NOAA Laboratory,
    Hawaii
    [Leaders: Victor Olgyay and Greg Franta]
    (PDF 738 KB)

  5. Battery Park City 18A,
    New York City, New York
    [Leaders: Peter McCourt and Rafael Pelli]
    (PDF 1.5 MB)

GB Tool and Manual

The most recent GBC tool and manual can be found on the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment (iisbe) Web site. International administrative support to the GBC project is provided by iisbe.

Participating Countries

Sixteen countries participated in GBC 2002: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and United States of America.

U.S. participation in the Green Building Challenge was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's, Office of Building Technologies.

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About Green Building Challenge

Green Building Challenge 2000

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo

International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment

DOE High Performance Buildings Database
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Last updated: 10 December 2007